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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

Color management


The color management system is a very advanced feature and is certainly why Scribus is getting popular. Of all the free software we use such as GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and some others, they all share the same color management process based on the famous Little CMS libraries.

For the user this is very handy:

  • All the software will have the same options. So if you know them in one, you know them for all and if you have set a certain color management in one application, it's easy to set the others.

  • The color result in the different software will be very similar.

But what is that made for. Isn't it enough to define colors and take care that they are CMYK? In some ways, yes. It depends on your needs and of the quality that you want.

We have already discussed about some printing issues: paper type and color, quality of the inks, and so on. There are so many possibilities and we generally use very little; so some standard presets have been defined. We call them profiles. Profiles...