On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, at 08:43, Matt Miller wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, at 13:12, Craig Bradney wrote: >> Hi Matt >> >> I am not sure what you are trying to achieve however I don’t think we >> have built the scripter functions to support this. I think it exist in >> the GUI as we have the menu item: Item, Text Frame Links, Unlink and >> break chain. > > In 1.5.8 and 1.5.9svn I see "Item | Text Frame Links | Unlink Text > Frames and Cut Text," but I'm not sure what that does.
I looks like this does do what I'm looking for. Thanks. Not sure why I didn't see that when I tried it earlier. > I tried it once, > and I didn't see that it did what I was hoping. I guess what I was > hoping for is to remove or break a text frame chain without disturbing > the placement of the text. In other words, can I take advantage of a > text frame chain to layout a long piece of text across multiple pages > and get it looking just right, but then after that, when editing is > done, can I convert the document to a chain-free document where the > text is fixed in each frame? If "Unlink Text Frames and Cut Text" is > supposed to do that, then I would be interested in spending some time > learning how to help get that functionality into the scripter. > > Note that I've haven't compiled trunk since it went to QT6. > > As far as my overall goal with all this, my use case is maintaining > collections of documents. Mainly I'm building versions of each of the > sixty-six books of the Bible in multiple page sizes and point sizes. > Then, for each page size and point size, I have a single large document > that collects all sixty-six books into a single Bible. There's no > change of page layout when the individual books are collected into the > Bible. Pages from the individual books are copied exactly into place. > But, after a Bible has been created, my system does support editing of > certain aspects of the individual books, and these edits need to then > make it into the associated Bible. Regenerating the entire Bible can > take a long time, so was trying to just replace individual pages. I > have this page-level replacement working for the Bible PDFs (with the > help of pdftk), but not yet for SLAs. My thinking is that if the SLAs > were chain-free, then importPage() would work as expected for this use > case. > > Thanks for taking the time to think about this. > > >> Frames are just a place (single or a chain) to present a >> Story of Text. A cursor selection can be placed over a text and then >> the selection copied, again these functions may only be partially >> represented in Scripter. Maybe it will work. The cmdtext.cpp function >> contains the code. >> Thanks for that. As a test it seems I was able to change the unlinkTextFrames() Scripter function to call the unlinkWithText() cpp function instead of the unlink() function. This looks promising. >> Also, not sure if you mentioned earlier, but what version of Scribus >> are you using? >> >> Thanks >> Craig >> >> On 18/04/2022, 17:20, "Matt Miller" <matt.mil...@fastmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm still struggling with this, and it seems one reason is that I >> want to take advantage of text frame chains to initialize documents >> from text files, but when I'm editing existing documents the text frame >> chain is often getting in the way. So, how would I get rid of the frame >> chain after I've used it to help layout a new document? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022, at 11:22, Matt Miller wrote: >> > I'm trying use importPage() to replace selected pages with pages >> from >> > another document, but the document I'm importing from uses a text >> frame >> > chain. It seems that since the text in the other document is >> associated >> > with a frame chain and not with any particular frame, I'm not >> able to >> > import a page from somewhere in the middle of the other document >> and >> > get in my new document the text that would show in that page of >> the >> > other doc. As far as I can tell from the XML it's not stored in >> the >> > .sla what text is in each frame, but all the text of the entire >> chain >> > is just stored as a single piece of text. >> > >> > I'm thinking of opening the other document, using getFrameText() >> to >> > copy from the desired page of the other document, then using >> > insertText() to paste into my new document, But each page could >> have >> > multiple frames to copy and paste from, so that's more complex >> than a >> > page import. I'm wondering if there's some way to do this at the >> page >> > level, without looping over all the objects on a page. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Matt Miller >> > mailto:matt.mil...@fastmail.com >> > >> > -------------- next part -------------- >> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> > URL: >> > >> <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20220416/c247fb0a/attachment.htm> >> > ___ >> > Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net >> > Edit your options or unsubscribe: >> > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> > See also: >> > http://wiki.scribus.net >> > http://forums.scribus.net >> >> -- >> >> Matt Miller >> mailto:matt.mil...@fastmail.com >> >> ___ >> Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net >> Edit your options or unsubscribe: >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> See also: >> http://wiki.scribus.net >> http://forums.scribus.net >> >> >> >> ___ >> Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net >> Edit your options or unsubscribe: >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> See also: >> http://wiki.scribus.net >> http://forums.scribus.net > > -- > > Matt Miller > mailto:matt.mil...@fastmail.com > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net -- Matt Miller mailto:matt.mil...@fastmail.com ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
