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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 - importing a OOCalc table


But if you need to keep the exact content of the spreadsheet, cell formatting included, we prefer to use Calc and you'll need OpenOffice installed. You can use the software you like to create your table but it needs to be opened in OpenOffice.org Calc. From here, do the last adjustments and add a chart if you want. And follow these steps:

  1. In Calc, draw your table and format it, select the cells you want to add to your Scribus document and copy them (Ctrl + C).

  2. In OpenOffice.org Calc, choose File | New | Drawing.

  3. A new window opens and now paste with Edit | Paste Special, and in the window choose Calc.

  4. Without doing anything, go to File | Export and save it where you want but as an EPS file by just adding .eps at the end of the file name. Select the Selection checkbox at the bottom of the dialog so that only the table and not the page is exported.

  5. In the PostScript Options window, just verify the color settings so that you keep the colors you put on...