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Title: Line up image boxes in columns and rows
Post by: Madcap Piktures on October 14, 2024, 08:54:24 PM
Hi guys, Mattias here. Brand new Scribus user.

What I'm trying to create is a landscape A4 folder with four columns and five rows, where I can put images (CDs/LPs) and text underneath respective image to showcase merchandise.

How can I create this the easiest way? Tables didn't seem to work, but I'm absolutely open to ideas.

Please forgive me if posting in wrong section or if the question has been asked before. All I could find on the subject was a similar post from 2017, and that didn't solve my specific issue.
Title: Re: Line up image boxes in columns and rows
Post by: AdmFubar on October 14, 2024, 10:25:45 PM
Quote from: Madcap Piktures on October 14, 2024, 08:54:24 PMWhat I'm trying to create is a landscape A4 folder with four columns and five rows, where I can put images (CDs/LPs) and text underneath respective image to showcase merchandise.
A4folder? As in in a Tri-fold or Z-fold?, Single or double sided?
Title: Re: Line up image boxes in columns and rows
Post by: Madcap Piktures on October 15, 2024, 04:26:07 PM
Just a single A4, book fold, double sided. Basically a flyer, more than a folder, tbh.
Title: Re: Line up image boxes in columns and rows
Post by: BN_Dev on October 16, 2024, 03:20:47 AM
If you want to make an A4 booklet wouldn't you want your pages to be A5 portrait, and arrange them next to each other?  Or just put some columns in an A4 landscape page?

Columns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJU0PsrNj_M&list=PLHl8nuacOfLK709_hb3ViX3Nef9WchSQH&index=27
Facing pages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TogozDHMOH4&list=PLHl8nuacOfLK709_hb3ViX3Nef9WchSQH&index=35
Title: Re: Line up image boxes in columns and rows
Post by: Nermander on October 16, 2024, 07:59:13 PM
If you are just going to print it, most people find it easier to create it using a landscape A4 document.

If you design it doing four A5 pages you also need to imposition these before printing.

For the task in question I would probably try to use guides and just place image and text frames using the guides (using snap to guides).