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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 - page numbering


That said, it will be very easy to add a master page: most will be using a Text Frame. Let's see how to use it in detail:

  1. Go to your master page.

  2. Add a Text Frame where you want to add the page number.

  3. Double-click within the frame and activate the Content mode.

  4. Go to Insert | Character | Page Number and you'll see a # in the frame.

  5. That's good, set it nicely: you can add other text in the frame such as "page" to get something like "page #", or place shapes around or under the number.

  6. Exit the Master Page mode and you'll see that the page number will be applied to all of the pages on which your master page is applied. The # has been replaced by the actual page number.

What just happened?

By adding a Text Frame, we just placed the number. We could have inserted the frame anywhere in the page, even in non-practical places. It can be the size we want too, put to the background, or have the main text of the page flowing around. If the Scribus way needs more steps than...