On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:09, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:13, Phil Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:07:11AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:58 +0000, Riku Leino wrote: > > > > You should also see "New". Click it. Then give name to your template > > > > edit it (draw a black square or something to the page) and click > > > > close. Now you can apply your just created "master page" to any of > > > > your document's pages by opening the page palette and dragging your > > > > template to the pages where you want to apply it. > > > > > > Note that you alter the template /with the templates palette open/ . > > > Closing the palette returns you to editing the page its self. I > > > personally find this behaviour rather confusing - perhaps some sort of > > > mode toggle in the palette would help. > > > > Thanks for saying this. That really was the big confusion. While I > > didn't understand how everything was supposed to work, missing this > > got we totally lost. > > > > > Also, I find that calling the menu item Edit->Templates makes me expect > > > a dialog not a palette. I found that rather confusing. It's better in > > > 1.3 now that access to the palettes is all together in the menus. > > > > I have been trying stuff on 1.3 as well and I agree, this does make > > more sense here. > > > > > > "Append" will append "master pages" from another document. So it > > > > won't do anything if you don't have any master pages created in the > > > > doc from where you're appending. > > > > > > That's probably a candidate for a rename to 'Import...'. > > > > I think this whole process is a candidate for a "this is how you set > > up doing a book/magazine/newspaper/...". I am not ready to write it > > yet but, when I am, if it hasn't been done than I will do it. > > > > While I am not the person using Quark daily, I did figure it all out > > when we started doing magazines. I know the capabilities are there in > > Scribus so I am not the guy that should be confused. > > Hopefully I'll be renaming this stuff this week, maybe tonight > File and templates > Edit and Master Pages > Master Pages and Import (rather than append)...
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