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The hardest part was figuring out how to place the pieces so that the inside writing was on the inside right and right-side up. Scribus' guides and precise placement made it a snap to put together even with a bit of
The hardest part was figuring out how to place the pieces so that the inside writing was on the inside right and right-side up. Scribus' guides and precise placement made it a snap to put together even with a bit of
trial and error.
trial and error.
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Making envelopes -- should be rather mundane and simple, but it's surprising how difficult it is to do with oowriter or abiword (to name two examples of my failures).
Scribus makes it quite easy; I don't bother to make a custom size page, I just use letter paper, put some grid lines to line up text boxes, fill in the contents, rotate the text box and that's it.  So I don't forget how to use it, I put an instructional non-printing text frame that tells how to insert the envelope into the printer.
After that, I just save the file, and reuse it, using Story Editor to alter the contents.

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Tell other users about the unusual things you do with Scribus -- only the sky is the limit :)

Here is a use case the developers probably never thought of...

Pinewood Derby Car


My son wanted to make a Pinewood Derby car for Cub Scouts that looks like the track. I had some sticker paper, so I made a sticker that looked like the track. I can't imagine how else I would have gotten layed out just the way I wanted it.



I have used Scribus to make birthday invitations for my daughter the last two years.

Invitations

Each is two scribus pages, printed duplex. I scanned in her drawings and used some Open ClipArt on one of them. The hardest part was figuring out how to place the pieces so that the inside writing was on the inside right and right-side up. Scribus' guides and precise placement made it a snap to put together even with a bit of trial and error.


Making envelopes -- should be rather mundane and simple, but it's surprising how difficult it is to do with oowriter or abiword (to name two examples of my failures).

Scribus makes it quite easy; I don't bother to make a custom size page, I just use letter paper, put some grid lines to line up text boxes, fill in the contents, rotate the text box and that's it. So I don't forget how to use it, I put an instructional non-printing text frame that tells how to insert the envelope into the printer.

After that, I just save the file, and reuse it, using Story Editor to alter the contents.