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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

Image effects


Scribus has some nice features in editing photos. Generally, you will prefer do that in a photo editing software where you'll have more choice in the functionality and algorithms. However, being able to do some fast, last minute changes is really handy. Plus it will help you to get better results even if you don't want to learn another software.

Image effects can be applied on Image Frames from:

  • The Image Frame contextual menu Image Effects

  • The Image tab of the PP; click on the Image Effects button

  • Extras | Manage Images has an Image Tools tab that includes an Image Effects button too

There is a little list of effects and they are very basic operations. You apply an effect by selecting it in the left-hand column and then clicking on the >> button. Applied effects are listed in the right-hand column. You can apply as many effects as you need, but generally two or three will be enough. If the effect you chose has some parameters, they appear under the image preview, on the...