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Scribus => Beginner Talk => Topic started by: occamsrazor on May 05, 2025, 08:25:23 AM

Title: Unlinking text frames
Post by: occamsrazor on May 05, 2025, 08:25:23 AM
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?
Title: Re: Unlinking text frames
Post by: a.l.e on May 05, 2025, 07:25:47 PM
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)
Title: Re: Unlinking text frames
Post by: occamsrazor on May 06, 2025, 02:21:34 PM
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
Title: Re: Unlinking text frames
Post by: a.l.e on May 06, 2025, 06:48:27 PM
i also had to a few tries...


unlink-with-cut.gif
Title: Re: Unlinking text frames
Post by: occamsrazor on May 07, 2025, 05:55:21 PM
Thank you! I never thought I was supposed to cut the text.