On 05.05.2017 23:49, Craig Bradney wrote: > 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
Hello Craig, thank you for picking up on my observation. Now I am worried: Are you saying that "automatic text frames" (as created via New Document dialogue-window) are different from text frames which I manually create via > menu > insert > Text Frame or via > Text Frame icon plus mouse-drag ? Maybe I am making wrong assumptions? Why would certain code "not deal well" with automatic text-frames, unless they are different from "normal" text-frames? Anyway, if I wanted to use your suggestion, it would mean creating a blank document with 300 empty pages. And then selecting each page and then inserting a text frame by some clicks and then a mouse drag (with snap to guides) within the guides. And then linking some 294 pages manually by selecting each text, clicking the link-icon and then clicking the text-frame on the next page. This feels like a job which I would not even want to dump on an intern. It is bound to lead to clicking errors and then to miss-sized text-frames and to errors in the link-chain. (That would be my human errors, not Scribus errors of course.) I will investigate this some more (by looking into the .sla files with samples of automatic versus manual text frames). And if other users can confirm this un-linking issue then I will rather file a bug-report and help with un-bugging then creating hundreds of text frames manually. (Craig, from what I am reading here, I believe you are a very nice person. So maybe this bug-report is what you really wanted, eh?) If we are having such very helpful features in Scribus like creating multi-page blank documents with ready prepared and linked text-frames then we should all help to make or keep those as bugs-free as possible. I live in a part of the world where totally bugs-free is impossible (speaking of real bugs in our house and offices), but I know that debugging can go a long way towards reasonably bug-free. greetings, Martin -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
