On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 21:56, Patrick wrote: > New problem: text chains across pages > > I don't think this has been addressed before and if so, just disregard > my ramblings. While working in landscape mode pages, created two equal > size text boxes on page. Inserted some text in the first box, created > text chain to the second box, flowed smoothly continuing text from the > first. Created second page, again two text boxes same size. Tried > flowing text or creating text chain from second box to the third on the > new page, it would not work. Tried again to create text chain, no > success. Changed document view/setup to show facing pages, thinking it > might need to have both viewable at the same time to work. Scribus > locked, cpu usage to 100% and had to kill the process.
Works for me with tonight's cvs. I just created 8 pages with landscape mode and switched several times between facing pages and single page layout. I started with a single page and threaded the text frames one by one. One note, sometimes you need to scroll the view up and down just a bit to provoke a screen refresh to get the text flow to show on screen. Otherwise, it works fine. > > I hope that is detailed enough for you guys to duplicate error. One > thing I am a bit confused about is the way you have incorporated the > text flow and text chains. From what I can tell, the text box you want > the text to flow from has to be the active box, while selecting the text > chain icon and clicking in the next box you want the text to flow. Is > that correct? That is correct. > I ask, because of the other programs I have used, it is > usually a matter of grabbing the text chain/flow tool, clicking in the > box/page that has your overflow of text, then clicking on the following > pages or boxes until all the text is visible. Also, in other programs, > there were settings to create identical pages/boxes on pages > automatically when inserting text, until all the text was inserted, if > there is to be an overflow. Add that to the wish list for 1.1.. Regards, Peter
