Hi dear developpers.
Styles are wonderfull because you can change them anytime and the entire book is modified at once.
Unfortunately it is not the case with scrapbook. It's nice at the beginning because the same layout of frames can be used many times. BUT if you want to change the layout in the entire book, it does not seem to be possible (unless you create a python script maybe).
It would be very nice to have Styles, Master pages, Scrapbook with the same behavior. Changes should be possible anytime and the entire book would be modified.
Book => Sections => Master pages => Scrapbook (with frames) => Styles
Styles => Paragraph / Character / Table / Images / etc..
Meanwhile, you better think twice to get your MP and Scrapbook correct right from the start. It's not easy to change after creating 200 pages !
I guess that suggestion is a bit difficult to program, but it would be nice.
Anyway thanks a lot for your work. Scribus is very nice software.
Hello,
If I understand correctly, you would like to:
- Create an object (image, shape, or text frame, etc.) to insert it in several places in the document.
- Modify the "original" object and have it update in all the places where you have inserted it.
Instead of using Scrapbook, you can try INLINE ITEMS or SYMBOLS.
Things to keep in mind:
- Scrapbook allows you to organize your "objects" better.
- INLINE ITEMS can only be inserted within text frames, but they change everywhere you insert them.
- I like INLINE ITEMS because they resize correctly when you change the "original" and can be inserted into master pages.
- SYMBOLS are quite unstable (in my experience) and have given me some problems.
- One of the things I don't like about SYMBOLS is how they resize when you change the proportions of the "original" object.
- Other problems I've had with SYMBOLS are document display issues and the fact that some of my files don't print if I insert them into master pages.
I think the best thing to do is to try both options and see if INLINE ITEMS or SYMBOLS can help you as a complement to Scrapbook.
Ah, see I interpreted this as a request for the ability to resize mostly text or image frames in order to change the page layouts. I still don't think that would be easy to implement via changes to the scrapbook - the scrapbook just creates copies of objects & there's nothing in Scribus to tell the objects that they originally came from the scrapbook.
If there's a continuous text chain, it probably could be done by deleting all but the first instance and then adding them back with the multiple duplicates function after editing? But if there's a number of different text chains in the document this would definitely break things.
A "Multiple Transform" tool that could look for objects "like" the selected item (same location on the page, same size and/or same naming convention) and transform them all together would be extremely handy for what you're describing.
In the meantime, you could definitely do something like that with a script by either looking for:
1. the name of the object (which only works if you gave the objects unique names prior to copying them into the scrapbook; otherwise they get assigned generic names like any text box/polygon. My wishlist would be items copied from the scrapbook being flagged with the scrapbook item name)
2. objects that are the same location/size on the page