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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

Buttons and form tools


With Scribus you can add objects that you can use to communicate with a user. As on a website, these options are often used to build forms that can be filled, printed, or sent by e-mail.

The PDF toolbar shows all the form control elements you can add in your layout:

  • The button is the standard way to launch an action. The user clicks on it and all the magic happens.

  • Text field will give a place for the user to add some information. A text field is the kind of field you use on a website when you write your e-mail address to subscribe or log in.

  • Checkboxes are commonly used for questions that have only two possible answers: true or false. These are often used at the end of a form like: "if check, I agree the terms of conditions written on the xxx document", or "check here to receive our daily newsletter".

  • List Box and Combo Box will both list the possible answers from which the user will have to choose. Typically, it is used to know if you are a male or female, or to know...