Index
From Scribus Public Wiki
This is a partial Index for HOWTOs and Tips and Tricks, with connections to other areas of the Scribus Wiki, and other sources like the official Scribus Documentation.
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[edit] Advanced Usage
- Aspell in 1.3.5svn
- Avoiding Design Problems
- Collect for Output – Saving a file along with its images in one place
- Color Tab and Gradients
- Creating custom image frames with GIMP and Inkscape - transforming an arbitrary drawn shape into something you can import an image into
- Lines and Arrows - Automatic and custom adjustments
- Pagination - Page numbering, including various styles, starting from something other than Page 1.
- Rounding Complex Shapes
- Text Gradients
- Scribus Creations - A collection of tips on advanced Scribus usage in the form of a PDF you can download.
| Here are the elements from this PDF as individual Wiki articles: |
[edit] Colour, Including ICC Profiles
- Color Management with Scribus, Part 1 - Scribus Documentation site
- Color Management with Scribus, Part 2 - Scribus Documentation site
- Color Management with Scribus, Part 3 - Scribus Documentation site
- Color Management with Scribus, Part 4 - Scribus Documentation site
- Getting and installing ICC profiles - Where to get and how to activate them.
- How to use spot colours with Scribus
- How to legally obtain spot colour palettes for use in Scribus
- How to create spot colour sets from scratch
- Monitor and Other Device Profiling
- Monitor Profiling - Scribus Documentation site
- Proposal for Monitor Profiling
- What is Rich Black? - my printer is talking about this
[edit] Font and Typography Issues
- Adding typographic spaces to fonts with FontForge
- Applying styles - Video
- Converting Mac fonts for use with Scribus
- Installing additional fonts
- Text effects - Video
- Showing all the fonts used in a Document
- Typography – Make your text look good
- Using import filters, paragraph styles
- Using the right font
- Workaround for thin spaces
[edit] Importing, Exporting
[edit] Installation
- Building Scribus on Windows - this page is a work in progress, as is the idea of users building their own Windows versions
- Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running
- Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
- Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (MacPorts/X11)
- Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
- Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (native version / Aqua)
- Win32 version of Scribus
- A workaround for a Qt3 bug under SuSE 9.3
- Fedora Core - Troubleshooting - for Fedora 6, 7, 8 & 9.
- Getting and installing ICC profiles - Where to get and how to activate them.
- Including 3rd party documentation into Scribus help browser - How to install additional html docs.
- Installing additional fonts - Get your fonts working in Scribus.
[edit] Lists, Tables, and Table of Contents
- Building Tables
- Complex tables in Scribus
- Creating a bullet list - Video
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Creating a Table of Contents - Videos
- How to create lists in scribus 1.2x
- Importing a long list with formatting into Scribus
[edit] New Features of Version 1.3.4+
Work in progress – some of these are already quite a bit different in 1.3.5svn
- Aspell in 1.3.5svn
- Version 1.3.4+ - New Features
- Version 1.3.4+ - Text Editing
- Version 1.3.4+ - Image Editing
- Version 1.3.4+ - Pre-Press
- Version 1.3.4+ - Import/Export
- Version 1.3.4+ - Usability
- Version 1.3.4+ - Items
- Version 1.3.4+ - Usability
- Version 1.3.4+ - Page Editing
- Version 1.3.4+ - Transparency
[edit] PDF Manipulation and Enhancement
Includes making special projects and imposition.
- Adding Hyperlinks to your Scribus PDF document
- Creating a brochure
- How to make a booklet
- How to make business cards
- How to make impositions with pstops
- How to make pdf impositions with pdfpages and pdfjam
- Shrinking a PDF from the command line
- Your first PDF form with Scribus - Learn how to create editable fields and clickable buttons with Scribus
- Web optimised PDF — learn how to minimize PDF size
[edit] Scribus Guided Tour
- Scribus Guided Tour:1 - Text flow around image contour, text frames with multiple columns, aligning to baseline
- Scribus Guided Tour:2 - Automatic page numbers, text flow around image frames, lines, shapes, polygons, text flow between chained frames
- Scribus Guided Tour:3 - Drop caps, import of vector graphics, shaped text
- Scribus Guided Tour:4 - Interactive PDF Forms with JavaScript Logic
- Scribus Guided Tour:5 - Barcodes
- Scribus Guided Tour:6 - Printer marks

