> On 5 May 2017, at 14:03, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am making a real book of some 200+ pages with plenty line drawings > with the bleeding edge Scribus. > > > My normal work flow would be this: > > - create a "new" empty document and select A5 portrait, folded > - define all margins and all bleeds > > - ask for 300 pages (just to be safe, delete later what is not needed) > - ask for automatic text-frames > > (later tweak the colour profiles, PDF settings, baseline-grid, default > text style etc) > > > It is all working nicely so far, with my Scribus 1.5.3svn from April, > except this detail: > > I get my 300 pages and my 300 linked text frames automatically created. > So far so good. (My computer has no problems with RAM or power, is > responding instantly.) > > Now for the frontal matter, copyright information etc. I want to un-link > the first four pages. They will have a different master-page and > different styles. > > I select a text frame and click the un-link icon or I hit "U". On some > text frames it works (and the arrow goes away). And on some text-frames > (mainly right-hand-side pages) the un-linking does not work, the arrow > stays and when I check with the story-editor the text frames are still > linked. > > > My workaround is that I can insert 4 fresh pages via the menu; but that > way I do not get any text-frames. I am not stuck but I believe linked > text-frames are such an important feature that the un-linking should > also work properly. > > I suspect that the text-frame-linking is still somewhat buggy, like in > many versions up to 1.5.2. And now is maybe a good moment to have a look > at it. > > Or am I missing something? I have to mention that my 300 text frames are > all still empty, when I try to unlink each of the first four. Is this > forbidden? > > > > I have experimented some and have found that if I go via the menu, > "item" > "Text frame links" > "Unlink Text frames and cut text" then the > unlinking works every time (right-hand-side pages and left-hand-side > pages) and the arrow goes away immediately. So from my perspective, this > might confirm that the "normal" unlinking is buggy. And not every user > wants to cut the text... > > Can other users reproduce this? > > > greetings, > > Martin >
I think for me, the biggest issue her his the use of automatic text frames. I know there will be code that does not deal with automatic text frames that well. My suggestion would be to just create your pages, then use Insert->Frame and select the right options. thanks Craig
