Table of Contents

This category is the main Contents (Table of Contents, TOC) page for the Scribus wiki.

News and Publications

• Scribus Times and Gazette

Usage

Imposition and Other

Advanced Usage

Importing, Exporting

Installation

Linux

• Install Scribus from The Scribus Archive on Debian or Ubuntu
• Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running
• Building SVN versions with CMake
• A workaround for a Qt3 bug under SuSE 9.3
• Fedora Core - Troubleshooting - for Fedora 6, 7, 8 & 9, plus many more.

MacOS X

• 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)

Windows

• Building Scribus on Windows - this page is a work in progress, as is the idea of users building their own Windows versions
• Win32 version of Scribus

Other

• Using klik with Scribus - testdriving Scribus the easy way
• Ghostscript - Installing Ghostscript / Why does Scribus complain Ghostscript is missing?
• 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.

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

New Features of Version 1.3.8/1.3.9

Many new features are shown in the updated online manual that is included with Scribus. When it is fully updated, these wiki pages will likely be deleted.

• Version 1.3.4+ - Pre-Press

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
• How to enhance your PDF forms with JavaScript — Learn how to use JavaScript in your PDF forms created with Scribus
• Shrinking a PDF from the command line
• Your first PDF form with Scribus - Learn how to create editable fields and clickable buttons with Scribus
• Your second PDF form with Scribus (and Javascript) — See how to use JavaScript to validate PDF form fields, to add document wide scripts to a PDF document, and to launch them on various events (teaching material available for download)
• A Brief Tutorial on Forms
• Web optimised PDF — learn how to minimize PDF size
• How to simulate Radio Buttons on PDF forms — Learn how to how to simulate Radio Buttons on your Scribus PDF Form using Check Boxes
• How to create an e-Mail PDF Survey Form — Learn how to e-mail FDF data and extract the data into a spreadsheet or database
• Signing PDFs

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

Working With...

• Working with image frames
• Working with Master Pages
• Working with Scribus: How to begin
• Working with Story Editor
• Working with text frames

Miscellaneous

• Translating the Docs

• User-Developer Interaction

• Scribus files as XML