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Installation

 * Installing Scribus from CVS/SVN sources on Mac OS X/Aqua
 * Installing Scribus on Mac with MacPorts
 * Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
 * Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
 * Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (native version / Aqua)
 * Installing Scribus on Win32 (Cygwin/X11 or coLinux/SPBLinux/XMing) - Obsolete - see Win32 version of Scribus.
 * Compiling LPROF-1.09 on Debian Sarge Linux 2.6.8-1-386 - Obsolete - see the note on the page.'
 * Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running
 * Using klik with Scribus - testdriving Scribus the easy way

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

Typical tasks


 * Laying out articles
 * Creating a brochure
 * Creating a newsletter

Working on the content


 * Page numbers
 * How to create lists in Scribus
 * Building Tables
 * Creating a Table of Contents
 * Spell checking your Scribus document
 * Spellchecking in Scribus (only for 1.3.5svn)

Fonts


 * Right font 4 right purpose
 * Typography – Make your text look good
 * Adding typographic spaces to fonts with FontForge
 * Converting Mac fonts for use with Scribus

Colors


 * 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
 * Simple Scribus Spot Colour Printing method – outdated, see How to use spot colours with Scribus
 * Monitor and Other Device Profiling
 * Proposal for Monitor Profiling

Special content


 * How to fill a Scribus text with an image
 * Text on a Path

Creating PDFs

 * Your first PDF form with Scribus &mdash; Learn, how to create editable fields and clickable buttons with Scribus
 * Web optimised PDF: how to minimize PDF size
 * How to enhance your PDF forms with JavaScript &mdash; Learn how to use JavaScript in your PDF forms created 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)
 * Adding Hyperlinks to your Scribus PDF document &mdash; Learn how to add hyperlinks to PDF documents created through Scribus
 * 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

Imposition

 * Imposition tools
 * Creating a threefold brochure
 * How to make a booklet
 * 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


 * Index