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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 - e=mc2


Let's write some simple formula right now and see how render frame behaves.

  1. First of all, you might find the rendering very bad. Don't worry, it's just an overview you have on your page, and the result will be much better in the final PDF document. But if you want to improve all that, go to File | Preferences, click on External Tools category, and increase the resolution value placed at the bottom right-hand side of the window. But again, there is no need for a high resolution here.

  2. Let's modify some graphical option first. Edit the current render frame source code and go to the Fonts/Headers tab. Change the Fontsize to one of the preset values. Click on the Update button. You'll see that all the text of the frame is modified.

  3. The code in the source below \usepackage{amsmath} just tells the render engine to use the American Mathematical Society package. There are many packages made for LaTeX: graphicx will manipulate images, psfrag will generate curves and graphs from...