Editing

Books
You can manage the following issues: But not these:
 * Currently, Scribus isn't very good at handling documents that are longer than 30 pages. You should split your work into several Scribus documents, export each of them to PDF and then join them into a single PDF file, for example, with pdftk.
 * You can set the value for the first page number or change the page numbering scheme in a document (see: Pagination).
 * You can create text frames that are automatically linked/chained when you create a new document.
 * You can't create a multi-level table of contents (TOC).
 * You can't automatically create a table of contents over several files.
 * You shouldn't make long chains of text frames, as this will slow down Scribus significantly.
 * Index and footnotes aren't available, yet.

Flyers
Create a file of the size of the whole flyer and use guides to separate the different "columns". (more...)

Typical errors

 * If you're using Windows and have a custom theme installed, you won't get any new page displayed when creating a new document: use the default Win theme or "Classic", and everything will work fine

How can I do Pagination?
There is no single "pagination" concept in DTP. Yet, the word is used often and can have several meanings:
 * If you want to add page numbering, see the page number howto.
 * If you want to impose the pages you have created with Scribus, please have a look at the howtos about imposition.
 * If you want to layout several pages on one Scribus page, please think again. There are some exceptions to this rule, like creating a threefold brochure.
 * If you want to create some pages and let text flow from page to page, you can learn more about this issue by reading the Scribus tutorial.

Writing Text

 * Why can I type some glyphs / letters in the Story Editor but they don't show up on the Canvas nor in the PDF generated by Scribus?

The story editor is still able to show more glyphs than scribus can handle. The fact is, that the story editor does not enforce the typographic quality of the glyphs and just delegates to Qt their visualization.

so, the fact that the story editor can show some characters, does not mean anything about scribus being able to display the glyphs themselves.

Language

 * The hyphenation language can be choosen in the "Hyphenation" section of the menu File > Preferences.
 * The language for the spell checker (if available in your Scribus version) can be selected in a character style.

Loading fonts

 * For a list of good font resources see Where can I get good fonts?.
 * Scribus will automatically discard fonts that may cause problems in offset printing.

Embedding and vectorizing fonts
see the section on PDF output.