hi emerson, > >Have created one chapbook with Scribus and like it a lot. However, > >it doesn't seem that page breaks come into Scribus with the text I > >get. Is this correct or is there a way to get the page breaks to come > >across? My next project is larger and it would be substantially > >easier that way rather than editing from within Scribus. > > Scribus doesn't "think" like a word processor. That means that it does > not automatically create new pages when you add text. There is no way > to make it do so. > > However, when you create a new document you can specify the number of > pages you expect it to be. (You can always add or delete pages later > if you guess wrong.) There is a checkbox in the dialog box for > creating a new document called Automatic Text Frames (or something > like that). Check this box and Scribus will create the new document > with a text frame on each page, and the frames will be linked. Now, > all you have to do is import the text into the first text frame and > it will flow automatically into the frames on the remaining pages.
this is very true. on top of it: scribus does have column and frame brake which you can use to break your text after having put it in a linked set of frames. hth a.l.e
