>You may have to submit a bug with an attached document, since I'm not sure what you're doing. One mistake people make is to put a frame in a Master Page, then try to add content in their document, but you cannot edit content except in Master Page mode, in which case all of the instances of that Master Page are changed. > >Something you can do is to make your frames in some sort of layout, in regular editing mode, then select them all (hold down Shift while you click them one by one), copy them (Ctrl+C), then paste (Ctrl+V) on some other page, in which case each frame will have the same coordinates as it had on the page you copied from. > >Greg
Greg, thanks, I carried on researching after sending the enquiry. You're right I was making that "mistake" - I had understood a master page to function like master pages in other tools: you can design one with graphics (e.g. logo to be on all pages) but when you design a "holding space" on the page you can then subsequently fill it in a "real" page. Master pages are templates in most products but it seems in Scribus they are little more than things that you can trace your actual design over. There's little point in doing that if one can't "snap to shape". The whole point of using a master is to ensure that things are positioned exactly each time. The alternative of a scrapbook is also not ideal because you can't scrapbook a "whole page" as I understand it. If one could that might be a fair workaround. Your suggestion for making (effectively) blank pages in the book and copy/pasting is sort of what I had anticipated Master Pages would be - but without the copy/paste. It seems the design of Scribus in this regard is far from ideal. Thanks for helping me understand it. Mark
