Thanks for all the kind answers to my fumbling attempts to use the features of Scribus. I'm sorry I've been slow to respond. I live in Louisville KY, where the north edge of Hurricane Ike came through last Sunday and put about 300,000 of us out of power for a few days. It also dumped some big limbs in our yards, for us to clean up. Got me off task there for a few days.
I think I'm as confused as ever. Please see responses below to suggestions made. From: "Peter Nermander" <[email protected]> > > A template is a template document. You would get the same function if you > saved a scribus document and then made a new copy of it. So why does anybody make templates? What are they for? > >> 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 > > Let me first ask you why do you want to convert the page to a Master Page? > Master Pages are like a page background. Appying a Master Page to a page > is like changing the background for that page. I thought I needed to make master pages in order to put the document together so it would automatically number the pages in a correct sequence. I was hoping master pages would help me with imposition. So I'm left with the question: How do I set up pages so that the front page of my newsletter will be on the right side of a double page, and the last page will be on the left side -- with page 2 and the second-from-last page on the other side of the same sheet? > > If you want pages with frames etc to use as templates for new pages, > Scribus does not currently support that in a good way. The best way is > probably to make a document with template pages and then import a page > from that document when you want to use a specific template. > > Also note that the Master Page is save in the document. If you open or > start a new document, it will have it's own Master Pages. This sounds like useful information, but I don't know what it means. What ARE master pages, and how do they work? Thanks again. I'm sorry to be/seem obtuse. -Joe
