Gregory Pittman wrote: > but it's really outside the function that Master Pages were designed > for. And for what were they designed? For me (as programmer with big practice in OOD/OOP) Master Page should accumulate ALL common bits from ALL pages, derived from it. Placement of common elements, etc. "Image" is very coarse object, IMHO, if system allows to have "Image Frame" without linked file.
I was confused by two-step process of image placement: (1) Creation of Image Frame object (2) Linking of Image Frame object with image file.. So, my first thought was: ``Cool, I can refactor out BIG chunk of common data -- Image Frame properties -- from all my pages''. Ooops :( And even more: I was surprised, when I understand, that all properties of image frame (shape, lines, lines color, etc.) can not be separated to style, and changed at once for whole document later. We have styles for text for ages (and every book about using DTP or office package spends A LOT pages to describe, why styles are A GOOD THING and formatting in-place is A BAD THING), and now I need to style every frame by hands... > As someone has said, and I gave some links for, scripting for this > allows for great flexibility. Perhaps what I can do is think about There is one problem: I'm programmer, Ok. Really, I wrote perl script, which generates TeX source and calls pdftex (so, no Scribus in this my project, sorry, but I'll try it again when I'll need real layout, instead of one-picture-per-page-no-text-at-all simplest case). But DTP system is not for programmers... And photo album is very common task in our century of print-on-demand services... There is function "Text flow" for ages (I've use it in PageMaker 5.0 many years ago), when imported LONG text spreads on many pages. It seems, that we need such feature for images too... -- // Lev Serebryakov
