Scribus hands on

Work in progress: this document is still only a draft!

This document will tell you, how to do your first steps with Scribus without teaching you, how to use Scribus or how to do DTP.

It is not a brilliant idea to go this way: you should really read one of the several tutorials before starting to work with Scribus:
 * links to several tutorials

You have been warned: Reading this document will help you putting a document together, but it won't really help you to do a good job.

Creating a new document

 * size
 * measurement unit
 * adding pages
 * setting guides

Adding content

 * create text and picture frames
 * filling and editing text frames
 * concateanting text frames
 * filling picture frames
 * inline pictures
 * adding page numbers to the master page

Producing the document

 * printing (if it fails go through exporting to pdf)
 * exporting to pdf
 * collecting the document

What will be difficult to do

 * lists
 * mathematic formulas
 * imposing (a booklet)

What you won't be able to do

 * footnotes
 * index
 * edit pdfs