[softwarelist] Re: Cut'n'paste a whole OvPro page?

In article <53104.80.176.249.168.1233613326.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Snip]

> Exactly -- it did what you told it to. As I implied before, text in
> auto-linked frames is not part of any particular page (except, arguably,
> the very first page on which the frame occurs) -- it's only flowing
> through it (in one end and out the other). It's like a garden with a
> stream running through it -- you could move the static elements, such as
> turf and plants (i.e. self-contained graphics and/or text frames) to
> another plot, but although you could (somehow?!) move the bed of the
> stream (auto-linked text frame) too, all the water (text) would run away
> -- so Ovation Pro doesn't let you try. If you want to show someone
> elsewhere the stream running through the garden you need to take a
> picture of it at a particular point in time (save the page as drawfile
> or PDF, or print, e.g. to PostScript.).

> OK, silly analogy, but you might see what I mean. There are good reason
> for not being able to copy auto-linked frames. It's more frustrating
> when there are at least two frames linked to each other on a page, but
> not back to the first, so there's no possibility of text flowing onto or
> off that page, and yet it still won't let you copy them without
> de-linking them first and re-linking afterwards. But, in all the years
> I've been using Ovation Pro, that has very rarely happened, so for me it
> doesn't register on the scale of irritation in comparison with other
> things!
> Peter Newble.

For the way my brain works a very acceptable analogy.

Remains the question thought, why the Alt Drag (Master frame not
de-selected) didn't work?  Copied nothing in my testing.
Be this a bug of some sort?

Dave S

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