Hi, I'm starting to work on a project where we would like to use Scribus as a newspaper production tool for local African press.
In order to use Scribus to build a daily newspaper, I need to be able to create macro-element. For example, a article having a title, a sub title, 2 text columns , a picture on the side with the legend below. When building the newspaper, the journalist would select the right macro-element from a library of macro elements. Then we would feed the inside-elements (text frames, picture frames) with the right content (the title, the article text, the picture, the picture caption). Up to now, I could nearly simulate this using the scrapbook. I'm creating a macro-element on a blank page. I group all the individual elements and I send the whole to the scrapbook. However, I've some issues. For example, linked text frames are no-more linked when I'm taking the macro-element from the scrapbook to place it on a page, editing the content of the different elements within the macro-element is really difficult except by ungrouping the while thing but then the whole structure could be screwed up. Looking deeper, I thought to the possibility to write a plugin but I'm blocked by the fact that I would like to have the possibility to handle the macro-element as a whole when performing positioning operation and to handle the inside element content properties individually. And I can't find a way to do that. Does anybody have some advices or some pointers where I could find more information? Thanks, -- ERic
