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Scribus => Beginner Talk => Topic started by: ShaunO on January 13, 2025, 02:07:01 AM

Title: Basic image questions
Post by: ShaunO on January 13, 2025, 02:07:01 AM
Hi, Newbie here, liking the program and learning my way around. I'm a photogrpaher, and want to use it to lay out books that will be image heavy, not much text.
A couple question:

Do I put an image frame on a master page, or does it have to be on individual pages, not master pages?

Is there a way to have an image span across the gutter without a break in the image, for panorama images?
Title: Re: Basic image questions
Post by: AdmFubar on January 13, 2025, 02:30:26 AM
you can put image frames where you want. Master pages are a bit of a "magic wand tool" that will apply a defined layout to a page. So if your pages can be set up the same way throughout your book you wont have to manually place everything on the page.
Title: Re: Basic image questions
Post by: utnik on January 13, 2025, 12:06:14 PM
hi shauno

here i disagree with admfubar. in other dtp software this may be correct. but in scribus you can't insert frames on master pages and populate them on the individual pages.
master page elements in scribus look the same on all pages wich are based on the same master page. (the exceptions are variables like page numbers.)
there are different ways to add similar frames on many pages:
for your panorama images it depends on the binding. if you need bleeds on the inner edge of the pages, double sided images need more attention than without inner bleeds. but it's doable in both situations.

utnik
Title: Re: Basic image questions
Post by: Nermander on January 17, 2025, 04:13:04 PM
Ah I usually say: In Scribus, Master pages are "page backgrounds".

To save page layouts for "reuse" I recommend using the scrapbook:
 1. Design the page layout on a temporary page
 2. Select all contents on the page
 3. Send to scrapbook
 4. Delete the contents on the page
 5. Go to a page and double-click the scrapbook entry and voila, it is inserted on the page in the same location as it was when sent to the scrapbook.

You can also drag and drop entries from the scrapbook, but then they are placed where you drop them (which is not very useful for full page layouts).