As a newbie to Scribus I am having trouble > understanding the document > layout options for a new document. If I choose a > 3-fold layout it looks > to me to be the same as single page layout. Not > what I was expecting. > Can someone tell what I'm doing wrong? > > Iain
Iain Welcome to Scribus. Page Layout seems to place additional pages as 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 across the Scribus window, the number is determined by the number of folds you want . It's more of a conceptual thing than a reality. In reality if you fold a sheet each panel is smaller but Scribus does not display it smaller, rather as a full size sheet. The 2,3,4 fold is to some extent misnamed, Think of it as Number of Sheets Across. You can see a better representation of this if you zoom out to 20 percent. Zoom is at the bottom left of the window or roll the mouse wheel and add, pages using the <Page><Insert More Pages> menu. If you use single page layout you get 1 page then below it another and so on. 2 fold gives the first page then additional pages display as 2 across by however many additional pages down Same for 3 and 4 fold I routinely use 4 fold to display 4 x A4 sheets across the screen which for me typifies an A3 sheet displaying the front and back at the same time. You can use page setup to separate the sheets if you need so that they dont display as one single sheet across the page. On this subject a nice enahasement would be if I could keep 2 sheets together as one would have if it was a real A3 sheet and have a small separation gap between these and the next 2 sheets displayed together as one. Hope this helps Roger
