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http://libregraphicsproduction.com/ Good luck! Staffan On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Michael Coughlin <coughlin at cheqnet.net> wrote: > John: > > > Thanks for your tips. I posted a subsequent email noting that I have > Scribus 1.4.1 and Windows 7 with 6GB ram and 64 bit operating system. > > I will experiment with your approach. > > Thanks. > > Mike Coughlin > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Jason Jordan [mailto:johnxj at comcast.net] > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:45 PM > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Subject: Re: [scribus] book design > > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:13:59 -0600 > "Michael Coughlin" <coughlin at cheqnet.net> dijo: > >>I am trying to design a book using Scribus. I have found on-line >>tutorials which have been a great deal of help. However, I think I am >>missing pieces of the puzzle. I have designed master pages for chapter >>head pages and for subsequent chapter pages, but when I attempt to >>insert text and have it flow from page to page automatically, it won't >>do it. I need to move it individually from page to page. Then, when I >>try to insert a new chapter page I can't get the chapter number and >>then chapter title to fall in the right areas, to be followed with the >>continuing text. > > You didn't say which version of Scribus you are using and whether it is on a > Mac, Windows or Linux computer. How powerful the computer is and how patient > you are can also have a bearing on the answer. > > Conventional wisdom is that for book layout you should use individual > Scribus files for each chapter, then export each as a PDF, and finally, join > the PDF files together with a PDF tool. Doing it this way keeps Scribus > runnning fast; Scribus can become very sluggish when it has to deal with > files of many pages. > > I never do it this way. Instead I use a very fast computer with lots of RAM > and keep my book projects each in one file. That is, there is one file for > the entire book, but I also keep a dummy file open where I work on just a > few pages at a time, then copy them into the main document. The dummy file > keeps Scribus performing very fast. > > As for your text flow issues, there is a fundamental difference between a > layout app like Scribus and a word processor. In Scribus the page is > everything; in a word processor the text is everything. If you insert text > at the beginning of a word processor document the word processor will > automatically create enough pages at the end to hold the text. > Scribus will not do that. In Scribus all text must be in frames and the > frames must be linked for the text to flow through them. > > I suggest you create a new Scribus document as an experiment. When you > create the new document give it some random number of pages, and in the > opening window tell it to create automatic frames (there is a checkbox for > this). Then Scribus will create the document with a text frame on each page > and all the frames will be linked. If you don't do this when you create the > document you will have to create and link all the frames one at a time > manually. > > Oh, and welcome to Scribus! > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or > unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > > > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net -- Staffan Melin Oscillator - ord bild form Kryssd?cket 1 SE-413 27 G?TEBORG SVERIGE/SWEDEN www.oscillator.se staffan.melin at oscillator.se +46 (0)70-4876 250
