FreedomYUG Tutorial Demonstrated Tasks
Empty White Spaces
Launching Scribus
Making a New Document
- Adjusting size (Custom)
- Choosing units (mm)
- Facing pages
- Margins
Cover Page
Hiding Grid lines (if necessary)
Introduction of concept: working with frames
Toolbar
- Mouse-over to see Tool Tips
- Click Image Frame icon
- Placing Image Frame on page
Bringing up Properties Tool
Appearance of a selected frame/selecting
Changing frame name
Adjusting position and size (full page)
Right-click frame > Context Menu
Get Image
- File dialog - importing image file
- Adjusting position of image in frame
Selecting a color profile
- (brief) something about lcms/monitor profiles
Save File (File > Save and toolbar icon)
Selection of transparency feature
Shape icon - rectangle
- Place shape on page
- adjust position, size
- select None for border color
- adjust background fill color and transparency
More shapes
- Two with same colors
- Fourth shape - new color
Edit Colors - New
- CMYK select
- sliders for values
- Color Name
- Back to Properties > Color to select
Lock frames
Unselect Text Flows Around Frame for Shapes
Working with Layers on a Page
Concept of Layers
- Rationale: option of hiding/showing layers
- Concept: Multi-language files, with only desired language shown
Bring up Layers requestor
Changing layer name
Adding layers
- Prior elements on one layer of cover
- Text will be on a new one
Hiding/showing layers
Selecting the working layer
Adding text frame
- Uncheck Text Flows Around Frame
- Story Editor for text entry
- Save and Exit Editor
Context menu > Show Properties tool
Text Tab
- Font selection
- Size
- Color
- Kerning
- Line spacing
Edit Contents of Frame mode
- Adjust only highlighted text
Resize, reposition frame over shape
New Text Frame for subtitle
- Enter text, adjust as above
- Reposition
More text, as above
Design Multiple Pages
Concept: Templates
Templates requestor: Edit > Templates
- New template, name
- Adding guides to templates
- Concept: math operations in numerical requestors
- Lock guides
- Add text frames to template
- Add page numbering
- Page Palette
- Making your document from templates
New Text Frame - body text (manual)
- Setting columns in Properties
- Adjust gap
- Uncheck Text Flows Around Frame
Concept: Paragraph Styles
- Adding/Editing Styles
- Baseline grid
- Adjust font, other features (no detail)
Context Menu: Get Text
Linking Frames
Setting Style (after text imported, frames linked)
Adjust text frame sizes
Add images
Drop caps - automatic (mention only)
Hanging Drop Caps
- Initial letter in its own frame
Ctrl-Shift-click to select frame in layer
Use of invisible frame for space around image frame
Gradient fill background for Text Frame
Shape to mark story end
Design with Graphics and Freedom
Copy feature from one template to another
- Select a group with mouse
- Copy > Paste
- Use of multiple vertical guides to align elements
Text > Convert to Outline
- Edit Shape (no detail)
- Lock Shape
New Shapes, Polygons - editing
- Convert to Text Frames
- Enter text, apply style
- Use of Scrapbook for Repetitive Features
- Text Frame - Rotate
Set Fire with SVG Graphics
New Template
Import SVG
- Edit size
- Copy, position copies
- Edit individual colors
- Clicking, dragging guides to SVG borders
New text frames aligning with guides
- Automatic drop caps in styles
Edit Template - move page number
Text on curve
- Make Text Frame
- Enter text
- Make Bezier curve
- Select both Frame and curve
- Item > Attach Text to Path
- Rotate as desired
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