Prise en main de Scribus:5

Pourquoi utiliser des calques
Nous allns bientôt mettre en forme le texte du We are going to format the text for the magazine's masthead, the headline, and the subhead du magazine. Imaginez celui-ci soit produit dans plusieurs langues. Une façon de faire serait de recréer la mise en page pour chaque langue. l'autre façon consiste à mettre chaque langue sur un calque. Songez aux calques comme à des feuilles transparentes qui se superposent. Vosu pouvez afficher ou cacher des calques, par exemple : cacher le calque contenant le texte en anglais, et montrer celui cotnenant l'hindi.

Les calques apportent énormément pour la mise en page. Pour notre magazine, je garderai le fond et les bandes sur un calque, et placerai le texte sur un second. Allez dans Fenêtre>Calques. Dans la fenêtre qui apparaît, vous apercevez certainement un calque existant. Décochez l'icône représentant un oeil et tosu les éléments de ce calque vont disparaître, laissant une page vide.

Double-cliquer sur le nom de ce calque et écrivez 'Bg Photo'. Cliquez alors sur l'icone en bas à gauche pour ajouter un nouveau calque au-dessus du calque existant. Changez le nom de ce calque en 'CoverText'. Assurez-vous que ce calque soit en surbrillance de manière à ce que Scribus comprenne que c'est sur celui-ci que vosu souhaitez ajouter des élèments. Assurez-vosu aussi que l'oeil de ce calque est affiché de manière à bien percevoir le contenu à venir.

Entering Text in a Text Frame
Ensure the CoverText layer is highlighted in Layers. Click on the the text-frame in tools (keyboard: T) and drag a text frame across the MastheadBand. For the moment, make the text frame as wide as the page and nearly double the height of the MastheadBand. Click the Story Editor icon  in the Toolbar (keyboard: Ctrl+Y). This is next to the Edit Contents of Frame icon. A dialog box displays, where you can enter the text you wish to have published in the text frame. Think of the Story Editor dialog box as a mini notepad or word processor for each text frame. This is the second-most important dialog box in Scribus, after the Properties Tool we saw earlier. Type the text: “FreedomYug” in the Story Editor. Then click on File > Save and Exit inside the Story Editor (File > Update Text Frame and Exit in 1.3.X). This publishes your text into the text frame, and exits the Story Editor.

Make Text Look Beautiful
'FreedomYug' will look attractive if the gaps between the letters are reduced, and if the text fits into the MastHeadBand. The overall gap between letters is called 'Tracking.' To reduce this tracking, right-click on the text frame, and from the pop-up menu, choose 'Show Properties'. In Shape uncheck 'Text flows around frame'. On the buttons at the top of this dialog box, click on Text.

Tracking
From the drop-down menu of Fonts in the Properties dialog box, choose 'Utopia Regular' or else Times Roman or any other font you fancy. Make the size: 84 points. Traditionally, a point is a unit of measure in the printing industry. 72.27 points make an inch. In digital print publishing, this is rounded-off to 72 points make an inch. Text size is usually measured in points. Select 'Red' from the drop-down menu next to the bucket icon, which stands for 'Fill Color' for our text. In the field labelled (Tracking in Scribus 1.2.*), enter -5 pts. Set the value of the field (Line Spacing in Scribus 1.2.*) to 72 pts. You will find the gaps between the text has squeezed, and the text has changed to the color red.

''Note that all of these font sizes, settings, and positioning values may vary depending on which exact font you choose. The important thing is to fit them in the space provided, with a look that is pleasing to you. '''In particular, you may find that the text frame height may need to be much larger than you expect. Look for a small rectangle with an X inside in right lower corner of the frame that tells you there is not enough space for the text'

More Text, More Frames
Use the same technique, make new text frames as follows: Adjust size, tracking and line spacing to fill the space as needed.

And While We're At It
Here is an excerpt from Working with text frames elsewhere on the Wiki. You should find this useful when adjusting sizes, positions, and other settings.

There are three ways to change the individual settings --
 * 1) editing with the keyboard
 * 2) clicking on the up or down arrows to the right of each value. The keyboard up and down arrows will accomplish the same thing.
 * 3) using the mousewheel on each setting -- usually hovering the cursor will be enough, if not, click on the value first

Also note that for 2 and 3, holding down Ctrl, Shift, or Ctrl+Shift will alter which decimal place is affected. In addition, when using the Properties window width and height are by default linked, but you need only click the chain icon to the right to unlink them. Refer to this article for more on keyboard shortcuts.