Unlinking text frames

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occamsrazor

My first ever post, so first: Thank you, you lovely people for producing this software and giving it to humanity for free! :-*  I love you! And thank you community for being here to help newbies like me!

I have been trying to unlink text frames and been unsuccessful.

I clicked the upstream frame to be unlinked, then selected "unlink" (arrows appear between frames) and clicked the frame downstream. The downstream text disappears and becomes overflof in the upstream frame. When i let the text paste into the downstream frames, the link is re-established.

What am I doing wrong?

a.l.e

does not happen here...

which version are you using?

can you enable "View > Text Frames > Show Text Chain" to make visually more clear that the frame is indeed unlinked (and that there are not other linked frames involved)

occamsrazor

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Hi a.l.e,

I'm trying to get rid of the link marked with the red arrow. My Scribus is version 1.6.4

Screenshot 2025-05-06 151725.png

a.l.e

i also had to a few tries...

  • select the first frame in the new chain
  • item > text frames links > unlink text frames and cut text

unlink-with-cut.gif

occamsrazor

Thank you! I never thought I was supposed to cut the text.