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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 - Scribus scrapbooking


If you often use some custom frame settings or layout, you certainly won't like redoing them each time. For example, if you're doing a book about LaTeX, you'd like to show sample code. In the margin of the code, it would be nice to say it is LaTeX and have some nice setup.

Let's say you have some render frame, at its left-hand side a black and long rectangle frame, and at the left-hand side of it a render frame containing \LaTeX and a simple Text Frame containing "Formula 1". The latest are 90° rotated.

  1. Select them all and use Send to Scrapbook from the context menu (right-click).

  2. You will be asked to choose a name for your object: for example, type LaTeX.

  3. Now go to the Windows menu and display the Scrapbook from there and you'll see your frames inside.

  4. If you want to reuse them later, just drag them from the Scrapbook window into your page, and you'll just have to change the content of each frame.

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