Navigating in a Document

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Scribus files can contain many pages, which in turn will contain a lot of objects. Scribus provides some powerful tools to navigate in complex documents.

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The Page List

The easiest way to access a particular page is to use the page list in the status bar. If you click on the arrow, you will be presented a list of all pages in a document. To jump to a page, simply select its number in the list:

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You can jump page-by-page, to the first page, or to the last page by clicking the arrows to each side of the Page List. As you can see yourself, the PgUp and PgDn keys only move by a part of a page.

The "Arrange Pages" Dialog

Another way to access a page is to open the dialog Windows > Arrange Pages. In the field titled “Document Pages” you can see all pages in the document, represented by a symbol and the page number. Note that the page numbers displayed in this dialog are the ones you assigned to them in the Document Setup, for instance, if you used I, II, III, -, 1, 2, 3 as a numbering scheme, you will see I, II, III, 1, 1, 2, 3 in the field.

If you click on one of the page symbols, Scribus will select the respective page and display it on screen. For more information about this dialog, see Managing and Laying Out Pages.ENDNOTE

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The Document Outline

If you want to access single items quickly without scrolling and selecting, you can use the document outline (Windows > Outline). The dialog offers a hierarchical tree view of the document and its items. It starts with the file name, then master pages are listed, followed by normal pages and their content. The items on each page are listed in their stacking order (their levels). If you click on a page, Scribus will select the page and display it. If you click on a master page, Scribus switches into the editing mode for master pages and displays the selected page. If you click on an item on a page, Scribus will jump to the page, select the item and display it. To ease navigation, it might be appropriate to attach specific names to objects in the X, Y, Z tab of the Properties Palette.

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Bookmarks

Sometimes it makes sense to navigate between particular objects in a document, for instance between two remote text frames that require heavy editing. In such a case, it's advisable to employ bookmarks. Note that only text frames can be used as bookmarks.

To create a bookmark, select a text frame, and bring up the context menu with a right click. Then choose PDF Options > Is PDF Bookmark:

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The text frame is now "bookmarked". If you open the bookmarks dialog (Windows > Bookmarks), you'll see that the first words in the text frames are used to identify the content. Clicking on a bookmark lets Scribus select the respective text frame and display it. Note that bookmarks are listed in the order they were created rather than the order they are in the document. If you need to change the order, you can move the entries in the Bookmarks dialog with the mouse. You can also create different sublevels of bookmarks. Just drag the bookmark you want to be at a lower level than another by dragging it with the mouse on the entry for the higher level and then choose "Insert Bookmark" from the pop-up dialog.

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Scribus bookmarks will also be exported to a PDF file. In Adobe Reader you have the option to use PDF bookmarks (View > Navigation Tabs > Bookmarks) for navigation purposes. In Adobe Reader it looks like this:

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If you don't want to export your Scribus bookmarks to the PDF file, use the context menu to uncheck the label Is PDF Bookmark.

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