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all right...  just played a bit with this...   works, but it is a bit complicated...

the advantage seems to be that you can decouple special parts of the masterobjects you decouple using symbols...    for example i can change the length of an object, but it would still get the collour from the masterside..     nice idea so far...   (by the way it crashed soon while playing on this... )

But we also need a fast solution to decouple the objects from the masterpage maybe by using a shortcut... 

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Herr's a hint about a problem I encountered and put as a possible bug on Reporting bugs. Don't try adding a symbol onto a Master page(you can create a symbol to use anywhere in your document by selecting a feature and clicking on Create on the symbols tab)  A moderator who replied to my bug report says that Master pages are not designed to handle symbols in the same way as a normal page.  

So what happens if you create a symbol and try adding as an entry on a master page? Well, it appears correctly on the master page but all pages derived from the master contain multiple images along the path followed by you dragging the symbol onto the master. see figures below

Moral - Don't use Symbols tab to amend a master page, though it is fine to alter/add to any other page.

Pman

 

symbol on symbols tab .PNG

master symbol multiple.PNG

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@PMan this is a known bug that affects nested symbols in both Publisher and Designer.

Symbols should nest.

Sometimes they do, and sometimes bad stuff happens (not limited to the smeared snail-trail you experienced).

 

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  • 3 months later...
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This area of the program has been reconsidered and addressed. 

Perhaps the readers of this thread would like to try our initial attempt at adding the Master Page text frame and picture frame behaviour and features discussed here.

Please create new bugs forum threads for any bugs you find or post in this discussion/suggestions forum for missing features.

Patrick Connor
Serif Europe Ltd

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