Hi all,
This is my first posting in the forum (so I guess I now won't get deleted).
I've come to Scribus from InDesign / QuarkXpress environments so am familiar with many of the basics of DTP and layout, as well as having experience of Visual Basic programming and some html experience.
I'm using Scribus 1.4.8, on a Windows 10 64-bit OS.
I'm trying to convert a newsletter template which I'd previously used in InDesign and Quark which consists of 8 pages, of which the first page is a '1st page master' and the 2nd to 8th pages are laid out and based upon 'Normal left' and 'Normal right' master pages. I have therefore added the regular elements to the page masters (page number, page framing, etc.). What I have been able to do in Quark and InDesign, however, is add an issue number for my newsletter to a field on the front page as a visible element and then that gets carried through to a running footer on each page (eg 'Winter 2019' on the title area of the front - appearing as
'Page 2 - Winter 2019' | | 'Winter 2019 - Page 3'
etc. I hope that's clear.
I understand from reading a few other submissions and help pages that there may be possible ways to create references and footnotes in version 1.5, but is there any way I can create a text box that can be filled in at publication time and which then automatically updates the footers (or headers) with the value I've put in the text box? Or do I have to bite the bullet and simply manually update the running footers myself?
Thanks for any thoughts, comments or suggestions.
Peter R.
Portugal