> ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: [Scribus] Adjusting page numbering to span multiple *.sla documents? How? > From: ArthurX <arthurx at gmail.com> > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Date: 18-02-2008 23:40 > > > Hi fooks, > > Thanks a lot for making Scribus!!! > At the moment I'm using it to create an art book. > (To be honest I'm bussy with scribus and the book almost a year now. > Not full-time.) > > I have divided it in a number of chapters, each in > its own scribus file to facilitate a quick start up > and workable documents. > I use scribus 1.3.3.9 on windows XP. > > But now I want to connect all the page numbers together. > > And I found a howto on this page http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Pagination. > > While the webpage is good, the geek trick does not work for me. > > This is the trick: "Search for the string FIRSTNUM=. And change that number" > Nothing changes in the real chapter and nothing changes in a simple 5 > page empty document with only page numbers. > > I know that there is surely a way, that this can be worked out. > So if you can help me, >
You are following the 1.2.x instructions - lower on the page it tells you how to do it in 1.3.3.x, which will allow you to start any file on any number with various numbering schemes. Craig
