Joe Ward wrote: > Thanks to all who have responded for the friendly welcome to > Scribus. There is nothing like a friendly group to help a person > through the inevitable snarls of learning a new program. I hope to > progress to the point of being helpful to others. > > I still have this problem with master pages, even going through the > new tutorial (having spent some hours with the earlier version) and > reading what else I can find. > > I have my four templates. I call one up, using "new from a > template" under the file menu. > Then I go to the Page menu, and click on "convert to master page," > give it a name, and click okay. Then I click on the edit menu and go > to Master Pages, and, sure enough, there it is, right in there with > Normal. So I get the next template, click on convert to master page, > give it a name and click okay. When I go to edit/master pages, I find > the new master page in place, but the previous one is gone. > Why is this happening? Is "convert to master page" not a > legitimate way to make a master page? It may be that you need to rename this new master page to make sure the next one doesn't overwrite it.
Greg
