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Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide

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Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide

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Overview of this book

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning and inexpensive professional page layout to desktop computers with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Creating professional-looking documents using Scribus is not a cakewalk, especially with so many features at your disposal, it’s hard to know where to get started! Scribus Beginners guide walks users step by step through common projects, such as creating a brochure,newsletter, business cards and so on. It also includes guidelines on starting a web newsletter and online PDF (Adobe Acrobat format) newsletter along with basic scripting to extend Scribus as per your requirements. This book begins with the simplest tasks and brings you progressively to adapt your workflow to the most efficient tools. It commences with the description of the graphic tool chain and an overall chapter on how to draw a simple and attractive business card. You'll then see how to manage the pages of your document and organized their structure thanks to guides. Then being invited to fill them with text, you'll be able to import, set text style as well as use replacement and hyphenation tool. Pictures or vector drawing will be added to the documents too. You'll be taught to choose the best format at the best time, modify or distort the shapes to get very custom documents. You will also learn how Scribus handles advanced color features such as transparencies, overprinting, spot colors precisely and be sure they are set well for a print result without bad surprise. At the end, you'll know to produce a perfect PDF file, be it for print jobs or web with effects, buttons and javascript interactivity, extend the document capacities as well as Scribus tools with simple programming especially with the python language.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Scribus 1.3.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action - adding hyperlinks


Just follow a few steps:

  1. Select the Insert Link Annotation (Hyperlink) tool.

  2. Draw a rectangle above the source text.

  3. Double-click on that rectangle to display the link properties.

  4. Enter the details and click on OK.

What just happened?

Actually, the link is placed above and is separate from the text of the frame it tries to link. So if you do some changes in the text, or in the layout, it will be important to have a look at what could be placed badly after the changes.

You can define your link among several types:

  • Link will just go to another part of the document. You can say in this case which page the link must go to and eventually which place of the page. You'll have to write the X and Y coordinates or click in the page preview you have in the window. As page preview is quite small, if you need a more precise position, you'll need to get the page coordinates before being in the link properties. Just put the mouse pointer over the element that you want to...