Pages appearing on top of one another after mail merge

[mattreub]

I designed the document on Scribus (a personalised diary to track specific things) and put the dates (which I wanted to use to populate the document) into excel and saved as a csv. Before merging the dates in, the document looked like week page trial.pdf and the file with the dates in was DATES TRIAL.xslx (obviously as a csv). However, when I merged the two, the pages in the final document appeared on top of one another, rather than being filled in the way I had envisaged, see week page mail merge.pdf

I'm not sure if this is my error or a bug, let alone how to fix it!

Week page mail merge.pdf
DATES TRIAL.xlsx
Week page trial.pdf

[berteh]

Hello @mattreub

The error you experience is "normal", you made no error. The reason is a former design choice to be able to support documents with pages of different sizes, explained in more details in #46.

But as the recent Scribus 1.5 does not support the display of more than 2 pages in a row anymore, this "feature" now becomes a nuisance, for your case and for others... so I'm looking into the best way to change it, and handle nicely documents with single page display as well as dual page display.

As long as you stick to single page display the fix proposed in #83 should work for you, and will be integrated in the next release of ScribusGenerator.

[jvr14115]

Do far no sollution?
I suppose it means, I need to somehow manage 1st and 2nd page in seperate lines and work with layers for 1st and 2nd page. Would work I guess.

[berteh]

No, so far no change here, as I find no "right" way to support templates with more pages. Any ideas?

[novicesmml]

I had the same issue as mattreub, and applied the fix recommended in #83. Now the pages come out separate but shifted up (not in the right place).
It is a document with 3 pages and in single page view, there is only one record that needs changing on the first page. Besides this, the pdf file always comes out corrupt.
The expected output is one pdf file where the first every three pages are different.

Thank you very much for the effort you put into making this!