Get Started With Scribus:11

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

Chapter 11

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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

Travel At The Speed Of Scribus

Advanced Features

Scribus has some pretty advanced and mature features that you will appreciate as you grow familiar with its interface. For instance, once you have dozens of pictures linked into a Scribus document, managing such links can be a nightmare, unless you use the Manage Pictures feature under the Extras menu. Broken links can then be repaired or newer versions of images can be used without having to manually delete and replace images.

For special accents, diacritical marks, and special glyphs, edit text in a text frame, and click on Glyph... under the Insert menu. The complete collection of characters of a chosen font are displayed, so you can just point and click. Try it.

Do you wish to quickly navigate through your pages to find a particular element? Go to the Windows menu, and select Outline. A structured view of your document, with all items per-page in a collapsible list, shows up.

Scribus supports the Python language, so lots of people have written amazing scripts that automate several tasks for you, from creating custom calendars to printing out font families, all with a single click. That's what the Script menu on top does for you. If you know Python, you could create some pretty sophisticated scripts to assist your work, while you design your publication.

Using the free tools at the site of LittleCMS, you could calibrate your monitor under Gnu/Linux, much like you would do yours with the Adobe Gamma utility under Mac or Windows. Here's a screenshot of a monitor's profile, plotted against a CIE color model for comparison. Ain't that cool!

File:Lcms-w550px.png

The 'Tables' button in the main Tools allows you to quickly generate tables in your layout. It is rather rudimentary at this moment, but it's already planned on the roadmap for Scribus 1.4. Similarly, non latin languages will be supported in the same time-frame.

Finally, the greatest strength of Scribus is the set of people behind it. They work 24-hours, creating a new version every night. Should you get stuck, they walk you through your installation, and even assist you live over the IRC channel #scribus. As you continue working, and find yourself lost for a feature, just hop over and request them.

We hope you found this tutorial helpful. Please add to it, improve it, and share it with others. It belongs to everybody. [ends]