Category:Contents

=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

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.

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

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 &mdash; 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) &mdash; 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 &mdash; learn how to minimize PDF size
 * How to simulate Radio Buttons on PDF forms &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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