Thanks for the clarification Craig. Just so I understand correctly, in my situation I want to apply a master page to a new page, not apply a template, which you would do when creating a new document. Is that correct. Thanks for the help. Scott
On 9/28/05, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 17:18, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I'm in the process of learning Scribus, and I'm having a problem using > > templates. > > I've saved an existing Scribus document as a template. > > I've added the template to Scribus through the Preferences dialog. > > When I go to apply the template, only the "Normal" template appears in > the > > drop down box. > > I tried closing and restarting Scribus, but the problem remained. > > Is there something else that I need to do to enable the use of the > > template? > > Please search the archives... there is no problem other than the use of > the > term template twice for different things. This is fixed in 1.3.x. > > From a recent posting of mine: > Which is why "page templates" are "master pages" in 1.3.x. Document > templates > (File->New from template/Save as template) are completely different > things. > > If you always want to create a document in the same way with the same > styles > etc etc, then you can make one from New from template (that you have > created > before and saved as a template). > > If you always want to create a page in the same way with the same > background > (as frames on a master page are not yet editable), then you can make one > from > Page->Insert and choose the master page, or simple apply a new master page > to > any page in your document. > > Craig > > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051003/b95d1080/attachment.html
