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To test the difference between Preferences and Document Setup, let's follow some simple steps, in which we will change the document size and language and see how it reacts:
- You have an empty, new A4 document in Scribus.
- Go to File menu and choose Preferences.
- In the General category, which should be the current category, look for the Language list and change it to Chinese or any other language that you prefer.
- Click on the Apply button at the bottom of the window and you should see the changes. You'll now be able to follow any of the tutorials you'll find on the Web, or nearly all. Unless you're comfortable with the Confucius language, set the language back to English and apply.
- Go to the Document category, the next one, and change the Units to Millimeters(mm) and eventually the page size to A5.
- Click on Apply again and you will see that nothing changes. For units, it is really easy to look at the left-hand part of the status bar. It should display pt or any other option that you have chosen in the new document window. Close the Preferences window by clicking on OK and choose the units list of the status bar. Your choice will still have an A4 page.
- Go to Page | Insert and you'll see that A4 is still the default.
- On the other hand, you can now choose Document Setup in the File menu and change the Document category in the same way you did before. Click on OK.
- Nothing changes right now. But once you go to Page | Insert, you should see that the new page is set as A5. Just test it.
The Preferences will apply in two ways, mainly depending on the settings you have changed:
- The settings that change a document behavior will be applied to any new document that is created after the modifications
- The settings that only adapt Scribus behavior can be applied immediately by clicking on the Apply button
When changing a document property, Scribus won't adapt the existing pages by itself. If it did, you would have to make a new layout, so it lets you define whether the old pages need to be changed. It is very safe and having several page sizes in a document is made easy. It doesn't mean that it has to be done everytime, but it's easy because everything can be set separately.