FreedomYUG Tutorial Demonstrated Tasks
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[edit] Empty White Spaces
Launching Scribus
Making a New Document
- Adjusting size (Custom)
- Choosing units (mm)
- Facing pages
- Margins
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Publishing Demands Freedom. PDF.
(This part not completed yet)

