I have a question on this. I have completed one novel about 320 pages using Scribus and am at the final stages of another about 383 pages. I already have the commercial print margins I need when I began my layout. What I don't know how to do is create left and right master pages where I can not only maintain my numbering system but also maintain a uniform text box. When I add pages it keeps my left and right but the text box disappears and I have to go page by page to enter another. Perhaps I am not doing it correctly. I create a text box for the title of the book for the right or odd pages and another for the author of the book for the left or even pages. It is a small text box at the top of the page. I then create another text box under that for the chapter content. Please help. Mary
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield < editor at federalsaints.net> wrote: > On 10/14/2012 02:00 PM, Jean-Luc wrote: > >> If I understand you correctly, your left and right pages have the same >> left and right margins. But if you prepare a book you will need a bigger >> margin in the center to allow for binding and this shifts all the frames to >> the left on left pages and to the right on right pages. By inserting a >> page, even by applying left and right master pages, all frames on the >> following pages stay where they were before. >> >> Now Greg's script is very cool and solves the problem now, but for future >> versions of scribus i would like what a.l.e proposed, that is being able to >> add this margins after finishing the document, before producing the PDF. >> >> Jean-Luc >> > > My requirements are to have the different margins left and right for the > binding. > > However John Ghormley gave me an idea and I'm currently experimenting by > having an 'all centered' layout, (but increasing the L and R margins to > allow for the eventual "corrected" margins), for all the prep work. Then > once I've done that I can apply Greg's script which seems to work very well > and I got no errors when I tried it out here. > > My one "complaint/suggestion" is the page number requirement - if you are > only doing a few pages it works fine but what if you have a 250 page book > and you add a new page near the front..... You now need to type in about > 150 page numbers!!! Could "end" be added to the script in some way to avoid > this??? > > IanW > Pretoria SA > -- > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/**mailman/listinfo/scribus<http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus> > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20121014/8b77a76c/attachment.html>
