[scribus] Copy pages

[Sven Klomp]

Hi,

I use Scribus (1.3.5.1 on Gentoo Linux) to create a double sided book. The title page and the first two pages are finished. The other pages should look similar to the two pages. They contain images (e.g. a border) over both pages. Since the border has to be on top of the text, I can't insert the border to the master pages (btw. a master on top of everything would be a great improvement for future versions). Thus, I have to copy both pages as template for the next pages. However, the copy function for pages allows only to copy one after one and not both together in one step. After that, everything is messed up.
So I started to create two empty pages and copy all items to the new pages. But this is not fun, since I use several layers and have to copy each layer separately.
Do you have a better solution for me?

Another problem is a little bit off topic, but maybe someone ran into the same problem:
I reorder the a5 pages and combine them to a4 size with pdfnup:
pdfnup input_a5.pdf --pages 8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5 --nup 2x1 --paper a4
However, the output is not exactly a4 (21cm X 29.6cm): 21.6cm X 27.9cm

Any help would be highly appreciated...

Sven

[a.l.e]

hi sven,

Post by Sven Klomp
(btw. a master on
top of everything would be a great improvement for future versions).

implemented in the current development version!
(even better than what you are suggestion :-)

Post by Sven Klomp
I use Scribus (1.3.5.1 on Gentoo Linux) to create a double sided
book. The title page and the first two pages are finished. The other
pages should look similar to the two pages. They contain images (e.g.
a border) over both pages.

putting the images in the scrapbook and then pasting in place (paste to page) may help here...

Post by Sven Klomp
Thus, I have to copy both pages as template for the next pages.
However, the copy function for pages allows only to copy one after
one and not both together in one step. After that, everything is
messed up. So I started to create two empty pages and copy all items
to the new pages.

i don't see why it should be messed up... just copy the first page at the end, then copy the second page to the end and so on...

if you don't have too many pages it should be manageable...

an alternative would be to create a manageable number of pages and save it as a "temporary" .sla document.
then go back to you main document and import those pages from the document...

you may also duplicate the temporary document and import into one of them the pages of the second, duplicating that way the number of pages....


voil?, i wish you good luck!


a.l.e

[Sven Klomp]

Me again :-)

Post by a.l.e

Post by Sven Klomp
(btw. a master on
top of everything would be a great improvement for future versions).

implemented in the current development version!
(even better than what you are suggestion :-)

Sounds good! Is this feature already available in 1.3.6?

Post by a.l.e
an alternative would be to create a manageable number of pages and save it as a "temporary" .sla document.
then go back to you main document and import those pages from the document...

Ah, good idea!

Thanks
Sven

[a.l.e]

ciao sven,

Post by Sven Klomp

Post by a.l.e

Post by Sven Klomp
(btw. a master on
top of everything would be a great improvement for future
versions).

implemented in the current development version!
(even better than what you are suggestion :-)

Sounds good! Is this feature already available in 1.3.6?

i don't think so.

ciao
a.l.e