On 11/27/2016 09:42 AM, V?clav ?milauer wrote: >> Playing with the Symbol concept a bit suggests to me that this is meant >> to be a kind of Pattern which you might use for the background or fill >> of some object. So rather than needing to find patterns outside of >> Scribus, you can make your own from various objects. Therefore, by >> itself, it isn't really an "object" in a Scribus sense, but needs to be >> inserted into an object so that this kind of setting is possible. >> >> To do what you are wanting to do, I think you should put your item in >> the Scrapbook, where you can reuse it as many times as you want, and >> have the Text Flows capability when you need it. > I was looking for something like inkscape's clone, where modifying the > original will automatically change also all clones, and thought symbols > were meant for these kind of things. Using scrapbook is a good idea. >
Actually, it does seem to work like this, again once you apply your symbol to some object for fill. Go to Windows > Symbols, which brings up your symbols. Right-click on them to edit, make your changes, click End Edit, and your changes are applied wherever you have used the symbol. I see there are also a LOT of settings for Symbols under its Properties (in Color Tab - Patterns), but these seem to be object-specific and not applied to all objects using the symbol. Greg
