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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

Size and position


It's evident that the main part is XYZ, which lets you change the position, the size, and the rotation of the frame:

  • Horizontal positioning from left page border is made with X-pos

  • Vertical positioning from top page border is made with Y-pos

In both, the Basepoint lets you choose which corner will be used for the calculations.

Positioning the object can require object stack changes. You might sometimes have some text above an image, for example, and you would want to be sure that the picture won't hide the text. In this case, the Text Frame should be placed above the Image Frame. Green Level arrows and the XYZ tab let you change this as you wish.

Shape

If you're really fed up with rectangle frame, you can easily change it afterwards. Once your frame is on the page, just go to the Shape tab of the PP. Here you'll see the Shape label with a square button at its right (see the following image). Clicking on that button will display a list of default shapes that you can use...