On 08/04/2011 01:34 PM, bobparham at comcast.net wrote: > > > On 8/4/2011 12:14 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote: >>>> >>>> I have completed three chapters already using Double Sided layout but >>>> these three chapters contain small pictures and I flowed the text >>>> around >>>> them. This is a different situation. In my example above I would >>>> need to >>>> link text from page 1 to page 2 to page 4. (Skipping page 3 which would >>>> contain the picture.) Would it work better in this example to open the >>>> document in Scribus with three pages, import text from Word into >>>> page 1, >>>> link to page 2 and page3 then add a page after page 2 for the >>>> picture or >>>> should I handle it differently? >>>> >>> I plan to print and bind a few copies myself and am doing the >>> imposition. >>> >>> Bob*Bob Parham* >>> >>> >> If I understand you, correctly, you are concerned about linking across a >> page that does not contain any text frame to a later page where the text >> link should continue. If I am correct regarding your concern, you should >> know that Scribus handles this quite nicely. I often skip 20 - 30 pages >> where other text frames and image frames exist in between when laying >> out my >> magazine. Just link the desired frames in the order you want regardless >> what page they are on. I've even linked backward, though the layout >> wasn't >> well thought out, but Scribus handled it impeccably. > Thanks for the reassurance, John. I guess I should have tried this > before putting the question > on the list but I try to look ahead for potential problems when I can. I > will be crossing this bridge > in just a few days now and it looks like I'll be OK.
Ok, now I understand. If you set up your document for automatic text frames, this could be an issue you would need to work around, but certainly you can break a link, delete the frame you don't need (or convert to an image frame), then relink around it. If you make the zoom small it might help this page-skipping linkage. As John says, linking is very flexible. Greg
