Hi
> On 8 May 2017, at 10:23, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote: > >> 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 > > ? Yes there are some very basic differences but some behaviour around unlinking and relinking might be different. > > 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'm not sure about guide limitation however please check the function I mentioned above. It allows you to insert frames over a range of pages, linking them etc and sizing them within page or margin boundaries. Check it out. It's fast. > 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. Actually I prefer to get rid of automatic text frame function but it could still be updated. No plans to yet. The frame insert code I wrote more than likely does what you need. Craig
