Would you mind terribly outlining the process of knitting together separate Scribus files so that a continuous page numbering is preserved? Or please send me a link? Doing so will make the "book" easier to handle, and it mirrors the structure of an epub (I typically save each chapter or poem as its own xhtml document). I really like your suggestion of using a separate Scribus file for each chapter.
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I was thinking about going with InDesign because the resultant output can be converted both to epub and to pdf (hence, a final common pathway to both eBook and print).
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And I also have a series of children's books (illustrated) on my docket coming up. This becomes especially important in producing poetry collections, with their unique line formats. A word processing application is insufficient: the result looks amateurish because word processing apps fail to control for leading, kerning, and tracking. I do need a layout program for books (I am a new "hybrid" publisher of eBooks and print books, and this is my first go at print), despite the fact that it contains all text. Won't happen again: I'll be careful next time and will save the document after laying out each chapter under a different filename to mimic "versioning". I think the problem arises when I forget to append a sufficient number of new blank pages at the end of the Scribus document prior to pasting a new chapter in - ie, enough new pages to contain all the text in the the pasted chapter. I managed to fix the problem late last night by deleting about 16 pages from the end of my Scribus document: doing so got rid of the strange "ghost" frames at the end, ie in the gray part of the document. Otherwise you could have issues where Scribus gets confused about what text should go where.
If you really have to use automatic text frames then it's best to append extra text to the first frame in the chain.
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IMPORTANT: Make sure you know how to stitch the resultant PDFs together first. Possibly put each chapter in a separate document (using the section numbering to keep page numbers correct). This way, any problems with one chapter will not "bleed over" into other chapters.Ĥ. Separate your text frame chains by chapter. Insert text frames manually (you can use shift-click when inserting to automatically size the frame to the nearest margins or guides). If you really want to use Scribus for this - and it's totally your decision - then I would advise:Ģ. I realise this probably isn't the answer you want but I think it's right for me to advise on using the correct application for the job in hand. Scribus has some extra features but do you really need them? Scribus is for page layout but books that are mostly text don't really have much "layout" so you're not really gaining much by using Scribus for this kind of thing. A word processor might be much better suited for this kind of thing (that's what they're designed to do).
If your layout is of the sort that pretty much every page looks the same (full of text) then Scribus probably isn't the application you want. They force you into using a very basic page layout. In general I would advise against using automatic text frames. I'll have more of a thorough look when I get more time but these posts might be of some help in the meantime: I believe it was resolved but I haven't been able to find which post it was yet. Someone else had similar problems earlier in the year and the issue was posted on the forum. I believe the problem you're having may be due to the use of automatic text frames. Otherwise, I may have to switch to InDesign. I suspect that deleting these ghost frames should fix the problem. But this time around, I am unable to delete the ghost frames, which are sometimes empty, sometimes filled with pasted text, and sometimes not present. This issue has only happened twice before, and I was able to resolve it those two times by deleting the pasted chapter and deleting the ghost frames containing the "invisible" pasted text. Attached is a PDF with a couple of screen grabs of the issue: The text I attempt to paste at the end of the document is not displaying in the Scribus pages but is either invisible or appears at the very bottom inside a set of "ghost" frames (ie, frames that are in the gray area of the application). I've encountered a problem pasting text from a MS Word document (going chapter by chapter) when I reached the end of the Scribus document and I have to add or append additional pages. I am new to Scribus and am using it to layout a book/novel.
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