Intermittens LayoutGASM

[Sheered Völva]

I'm starting to feel like I have some idea what I'm doing with Scribus. Finally! If my last posts are accurate (I don't remember), the tutorial helped. But it's for a much earlier version of Scribus and much of it doesn't apply to the latest version (and some things don't work the same way).

There are a couple things I haven't yet figured out, and am too lazy to do so/am running out of time.

Here's one: I used an eight-page template as a basis for beginning my issue. This was Intermittens/intermittens_master_draft_2.sla. I noticed, though, that the first page is laid out at as 8.5 by 11 inches, but the other seven are laid out as 8.25 by 10.75. The larger page might be fine for the cover page, but it will screw up my layout for the rest of the magazine. Is there a way I can change the page size without starting from scratch?

Never mind the above. I figured out a way to do it that doesn't take much work.

But here's an immediate problem. I doubt anyone will post in time to help me now, but I could use info in case this ever happens again.

I just got one of those little annoying popup boxes. This one says 'Warning: Name "Image63" isn't unique. Please choose another.' Frankly, I don't even know what I did to get the message.

The popup box gives me the choice to click the x (which does nothing) or click OK (which does nothing). The program won't let me do anything else, so it's essentially frozen. Fortunately I had saved my work not too long ago, but still hate shutting down a program that doesn't want to work.

Update to above. I clicked and the box went away. Now the program is truly frozen. My computer's about to do the same. Restart.

[Cramulus]

What an odd error!
you've gotta find image63 and change its name.

If you click on the image and view its properties, you should see the name tag.

[Triple Zero]

yeah, man you have some baaad luck with computers it seems ...

anyway you probably have included two images that are both named Image63 (either filename on disk or in the document, is my guess) so what Cram said, find one of them, and change the name.

[Sheered Völva]

Thanks Cramulus and Triple Zero. 

I didn't call the picture "Image63," that was a name assigned to it by Scribus. I restarted my computer (and thus the program), and so far it's been working fine. The most logical, rational conclusion is the second Image63 has been secretly moved by the Illuminati to Warehouse 51. Or maybe Warehouse 23.

[Cainad (dec.)]

The thing is, Scribus runs on a complex and experimental system known as "Bugger All," in which it will randomly decide that it doesn't give a shit and will create a random error that it probably thinks is funny as hell.

One time, mine came up with the HILARIOUS gag of crashing every other time I tried to change a font. Recently, it's developed a habit of seizing up whenever I try to open a certain folder, so I've had to put all pictures into a different folder on a higher level.

I swear this fucker has a mind of it's own. Very rarely does the same error happen more than a few times over a period of a few days. If I leave it alone for a while, the thing I was having problems with is miraculously working again and then I have to feverishly save every five seconds as I cautiously do what I'm trying to accomplish, waiting for this week's new error to pop up.

[Sheered Völva]

The thing is, Scribus runs on a complex and experimental system known as "Bugger All," in which it will randomly decide that it doesn't give a shit and will create a random error that it probably thinks is funny as hell.

One time, mine came up with the HILARIOUS gag of crashing every other time I tried to change a font. Recently, it's developed a habit of seizing up whenever I try to open a certain folder, so I've had to put all pictures into a different folder on a higher level.

I swear this fucker has a mind of it's own. Very rarely does the same error happen more than a few times over a period of a few days. If I leave it alone for a while, the thing I was having problems with is miraculously working again and then I have to feverishly save every five seconds as I cautiously do what I'm trying to accomplish, waiting for this week's new error to pop up.

It does stuff like that to me, too. For example, on one page I'll lengthen a column and it will work fine. On another page I'll try to lengthen a column and it will not only lengthen it, it will widen it and move it over. That's happened to me several times, but it may just be I somehow got some setting different on different pages.

Other times it works great. I either love it or hate it.

But the unpredictability of how the program works makes it:

1) a collosal pain in the ass

2) somehow appropriate for a Discordian publication

[Cramulus]

that's so odd. I run Vista and therefore have trouble doing simple things like playing a DVD


yet Scribus somehow runs error free


have you tried making an offering of booze to the public domain movement? They're the real creator spirit behind this thing, and they are THIRSTY FOR MALT LIQUOR.



also, @ cainad

[Sheered Völva]

that's so odd. I run Vista and therefore have trouble doing simple things like playing a DVD


yet Scribus somehow runs error free


have you tried making an offering of booze to the public domain movement? They're the real creator spirit behind this thing, and they are THIRSTY FOR MALT LIQUOR.



also, @ cainad

I'll have to watch what kind of booze I offer. Russia has had an extremely high alcohol death rate since the Soviet Union broke up and Communism left. And about half those deaths are from drinking cologne and antiseptics hxxp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31544292/ns/health-addictions/

[Jenne]

that's so odd. I run Vista and therefore have trouble doing simple things like playing a DVD


yet Scribus somehow runs error free


have you tried making an offering of booze to the public domain movement? They're the real creator spirit behind this thing, and they are THIRSTY FOR MALT LIQUOR.



also, @ cainad

I'll have to watch what kind of booze I offer. Russia has had an extremely high alcohol death rate since the Soviet Union broke up and Communism left. And about half those deaths are from drinking cologne and antiseptics hxxp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31544292/ns/health-addictions/

Jesus christ. 

[Sheered Völva]

that's so odd. I run Vista and therefore have trouble doing simple things like playing a DVD


yet Scribus somehow runs error free


have you tried making an offering of booze to the public domain movement? They're the real creator spirit behind this thing, and they are THIRSTY FOR MALT LIQUOR.



also, @ cainad

I'll have to watch what kind of booze I offer. Russia has had an extremely high alcohol death rate since the Soviet Union broke up and Communism left. And about half those deaths are from drinking cologne and antiseptics hxxp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31544292/ns/health-addictions/

Jesus christ. 

That was my reaction too. It was strange, but I read that article right before I came here and saw the note about giving out alcohol. Synchronicity.

[Sheered Völva]

I'm almost finished with Intermittens Operation Mindfuck (other than getting someone to go over it to help catch any stupid mistakes I may have made--mispellings and the like).

I have it saved in four eight-page Scribus files. How do I save all those in one PDF file? I'm asking both for the screen version and for the printed version, but right now am more concerned about the printed version.

Thanks!
http://www.intermittens.org
http://www.intermittens.info

[Cramulus]

okay I just consulted the scribus spirits, and this is what they said:

Try Page Menu -> Import

then pour out some cheap malt liquor on the sidewalk as an offering to the public domain

then click on the enigmatic "CHANGE" button, select the file to import, take a swig of malt liquor, and hope for the best.

[Sheered Völva]

okay I just consulted the scribus spirits, and this is what they said:

Try Page Menu -> Import

then pour out some cheap malt liquor on the sidewalk as an offering to the public domain

then click on the enigmatic "CHANGE" button, select the file to import, take a swig of malt liquor, and hope for the best.

OK, I'll (takes a swig) try it. But I'm backing my files up first.

[Sheered Völva]

okay I just consulted the scribus spirits, and this is what they said:

Try Page Menu -> Import

then pour out some cheap malt liquor on the sidewalk as an offering to the public domain

then click on the enigmatic "CHANGE" button, select the file to import, take a swig of malt liquor, and hope for the best.

I should have clarified that I'm a little slow with this kind of thing. I did the steps above several times, and nothing happening. I even added some steps of my own, and nothing happened.

What I really need is step-by-step directions. Sorry, but my ADD is kicking in (that's always a good excuse for being lazy).

[Cramulus]

What I really need is step-by-step directions. Sorry, but my ADD is kicking in (that's always a good excuse for being lazy).

my post was pretty close to step-by-step directions. Let's try it again... 

okay I just consulted the scribus spirits, and this is what they said:

Try Page Menu -> Import

then pour out some cheap malt liquor on the sidewalk as an offering to the public domain

then click on the "CHANGE" button,

select the file to import, take a swig of malt liquor, and hope for the best.



it will import the file you selected into your document.

Here's the one trick - make sure the pages are being imported onto the correct left-right page orientation.


for example if you're working in MasterFile.sla,

and you have section1.sla that you are importing from....

If section1.sla starts on a left page, make sure the page you insert it into begins on a left page.

If you're inserting pages at the end of MasterFile.sla, check off "Create Pages [At End]."