Get Started with Scribus

Get Started With Scribus 2006 Current authors:   Scribus Wiki Authors Original author:   Niyam Bhushan, 2004 Licence:   GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

Introduction

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Introduction

1. What Can You Do With Scribus
2. Scribus And Its Sisters
   • Download A New Version
   • Get Adobe Reader
   • Match Colors That Print
   • Use Your Fonts
   • Sane Workflows
3. Empty, White Spaces
   • New Emptiness
4. Cover Page
   • Insert Picture
   • Soul of Scribus
   • Get Picture
   • Nudge Picture to Left
   • Color Karma
   • Save
   • Masthead Band
   • Add More Bands
   • Create Colors
   • Locked Bands
5. Working With Layers On A Page
   • Why We Need Layers
   • Entering Text in a Text Frame
   • Make Text Look Beautiful
   • Tracking
   • More Text More Frames
   • And While We Are At It
6. Design Multiple Pages
   • Many Unique Page Designs
   • Master Pages
   • Value Entry with Math
     Operators
   • Page Numbers
   • Right Master Page
   • Drag-n-Drop Pages
   • Two Columns Per Page
   • Consistent Paragraph Styles
   • Define Paragraph Styles
   • Flow Your Text
   • Format To Body Text
7. Create Final Page Layouts
   • Space for Photos and
     Headline
   • Insert Picture
   • Resize Picture
   • Typeset Headline
   • Hanging Drop Cap
   • Done!
   • Gradient-Filled Box Story
8. Design With Graphics And
   Freedom
   • Many Unique Page Designs
   • Copy Elements to Template
   • Visual Guidance
   • Shapes for Text
   • Use Scrapbook for Steps
   • Rotated Text
9. Set Fire With SVG Graphics
   • Graphics R Us
   • Ignite
   • From Flame to Flame
   • Colorize
   • Dragged Guides
   • Page Number on Top
   • Text on Path
10. Publishing Demands Freedom.PDF.
    • PDF Form Authoring
    • PDF for Press
    • Choose Your Flavour
    • Color Management
    • Press Inks
    • Scribus File To Press
11. Travel At The Speed Of Scribus
12. Contributors
13. GNU Free Documentation Licence

Introduction

The following beginner's tutorial on the use of Scribus for page layout and PDF creation is based on Get Started With Scribus by Niyam Bhushan which has been published in April 2004. In July 2006, a bunch of experienced Scribus users and Scribus Wiki authors (contributors, as we call ourselves) decided to update and extend the old tutorial. Our goal is to adjust the valuable texts, designs, and images by Niyam Bushan to Scribus's current capabilities. While we intend to keep to the original spirit of Niyam's tutorial, this work is not going to be its mere continuation, but will finally go its own way with respect to content and concepts.

Start here: What Can You Do With Scribus

Note: If you are going through this tutorial and want to use the various images and text for this project, click the FreedomYug link below to get the tarred and compressed file.

After you download FYugFnl.tar.gz, put it in its own directory, such as FYug, before untarring it with

tar zxvf FYugFnl.tar.gz

after which you should have these files, which are the materials for the tutorial:

FYug.sla
FYugScoreCard.sla
FYugScoreCard.pdf
Text/
Text/FreedomYugJan2k4.sxw
Text/Khajuraho.txt
images/
images/titleFX.jpg
images/.xvpics/
images/.xvpics/pdfLogo.gif
images/.xvpics/titleFX.jpg
images/MaskofGod.jpg
images/EnterTitle.jpg
images/high_flammable.svg

The original files (dated 2004) have been made available for download by one of our contributors:

• Get Started With Scribus – the original tutorial as OpenOffice and PDF files
• FreedomYug – a sample magazine designed in Scribus 1.16
• Screen shots – screen shots used to create the original tutorial

Snapshots

13 July 2010:

• pdf format (gz)
• OpenOffice format (gz)