On 07/14/2016 11:40 AM, Michelle Allegretti wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to Scribus and I'm not sure the best approach for what I need. > > I'm creating training manuals. I created a document - double sided with > facing pages. Each page has a 2 inch text frame on the outside for > facilitator notes and a frame for content being taught. It is so much > easier to manage one manual. So, I want to build the facilitator manual > and then strip out the side notes but leave the blank panels for the > participant guide. Students can take notes in the white area. > > Do I name the note panels consecutively and write some Python code to > clear the text for those named text frames? I'd have to learn Python, > but I will. > > Is there an easier was to mask the side panels? >
One way might be to have these text areas on another layer. If you make a layer "non-printing" it will not export to PDF, so you can make two versions, one where the layer is seen, one where it isn't. This doesn't involve any Python. Greg
