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

First steps How to begin with Scribus (a short tutorial) Scribus hands on (How to begin without going through a tutorial) Working with image frames Working with text frames Working with Story Editor Working with Master Pages Scribus Video Tutorials Interacting with the Scribus people Get Started with Render Frames in Scribus Automagically add Date to a Document with a Render Frame Typical tasks Laying out articles Creating a brochure Creating a newsletter

Working on the content Page numbers How to create lists in Scribus How to set text flow around photos Building Tables Creating a Table of Contents Spell checking your Scribus document Spellchecking in Scribus (only for 1.3.5svn) Special content How to fill a Scribus text with an image Text on a Path Footnotes

Imposition

• Imposition tools
• Creating a threefold brochure
• How to make a booklet
• Making a booklet with Scribus and Adobe Reader
• How to make business cards
• How to make impositions with pstops
• How to make impositions with Multivalent
• How to make pdf impositions with pdfpages and pdfjam

Other

• Automatic import of images from a directory using a script
• Making a photobook from a directory of images using a script
• How to import WMF files
• Import Publisher to Scribus
• Exporting to HTML
• Import_Spreadsheet_Tables_to_Scribus
• Properties Palette Functions
• Importing PDF files as Vector Graphics

Advanced Usage

• 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
• Drop Shadows – with a soft edge
• Drop Shadows in 1.5.x
• Image DPI and Scaling, and Resultant File Sizes
• Lines and Arrows - Automatic and custom adjustments
• The Outline Utility
• Pagination - Page numbering, including various styles, starting from something other than Page 1.
• Pattern
• Rounding Complex Shapes
• Text Gradients
• Vertically Centering Text
• 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: Advanced Drop Caps Creating a circled diagram Creating a tiled image Creating borders Graphical elements for presentations How to fill a Scribus text with an image Text over images

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
• Simple Scribus Spot Colour Printing method – outdated, see How to use spot colours with Scribus

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
• Outlining fonts

Importing, Exporting

Advanced Importing Tricks with Scribus - Scribus Documentation site Automatic import of images from a directory using a script - Older version, uses Tkinter Automatic import of images: Versions not requiring Tkinter - Preferred version, simpler scripts Export/Import capabilities of Scribus, OpenOffice.org, Inkscape, GIMP, and Krita How to import WMF files Import Publisher to Scribus Importing a long list with formatting into Scribus Importing addresses from a text file - Script Import an image in the way office-programs do - Script Importing EPS graphics into Scribus Importing text with filters - Video (see Part 3) Notes on Importing EPS - Scribus Documentation site

Notes on Importing HTML - Scribus Documentation site Notes on Importing Issues with Scribus - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Overview - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Creating your first PDF Form - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting and Javascript - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Online PDF Forms - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Presentations - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Workflow - Scribus Documentation site PDF/X-3 Exporting - Scribus Documentation site Scribus and OpenOffice.org - Scribus Documentation site Scribus SVG Import/Export - Scribus Documentation site Working with Photoshop - Scribus Documentation site

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