Greg, I understand your point, but I thought I could have a text frame already placed in the page by using the master pages, then I would edit the frame and input my text. Do you mean that I have to create a text frame for each one of the 300 pages of the book?
-- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com https://www.createspace.com/3392936 On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2009 09:21 PM, Ciro Soto wrote: >> >> Q1: >> I am trying to layout my first full book in scribus (I only used it as >> cover design before). >> I created 100 blank pages. Then I created two master pages (following >> instructions from The Official Manual). Then I went back to the pages >> and assigned the master pages to the odd and even pages. >> They looked fine, but I cannot edit the pages! The text frames are >> unlocked, but I can't input any text in there... >> What is the step I am missing? >> >> > > Variable content does not go on Master Pages, only fixed things, like > headers, page numbers, various graphics items. In a sense, they are the > background for other page content. > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_Master_Pages >> >> Q2: >> Assuming I resolve the first issue above. I want text to flow only in >> the odd pages, and leave the even pages for another text flow (imagine >> I am writing a bilingual book, even pages in language1 and odd pages >> in language2. ?Can I do that automatically? Or do I have to do it >> manually? >> >> > > What you are talking about is selective linking of content. While you may > have text frames on every page or only some, you make your links to flow the > text to whichever frames are appropriate. > You probably don't want to create automatic text frames, since this will > link the pages in sequence and you'll just have to break the links and start > over. > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_text_frames#Linking_One_Frame_to_Another > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
