Table of Contents

This category is the main Contents (Table of Contents, TOC) page for the Scribus wiki.

News and Publications

• Scribus Times and Gazette

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
• Get Started with Render Frames in Scribus
• Automagically add Date to a Document with a Render Frame

Typical tasks

• Laying out articles
• Creating a brochure
• Creating a newsletter

Working on the content

• Page numbers
• How to create lists in Scribus
• How to set text flow around photos
• Building Tables
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Spell checking your Scribus document
• Spellchecking in Scribus (only for 1.3.5svn)

Special content

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

Imposition

• Imposition tools
• Creating a threefold brochure
• How to make a booklet
• Making a booklet with Scribus and Adobe Reader
• 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
• Exporting to HTML
• Import_Spreadsheet_Tables_to_Scribus

Advanced Usage

• Avoiding Design Problems
• Collect for Output – Saving a file along with its images in one place
• Color Tab and Gradients
• Creating custom image frames with GIMP and Inkscape - transforming an arbitrary drawn shape into something you can import an image into
• Drop Shadows – with a soft edge
• Image DPI and Scaling, and Resultant File Sizes
• Lines and Arrows - Automatic and custom adjustments
• The Outline Utility
• Pagination - Page numbering, including various styles, starting from something other than Page 1.
• Rounding Complex Shapes
• Text Gradients
• Vertically Centering Text
• Scribus Creations - A collection of tips on advanced Scribus usage in the form of a PDF you can download.

Here are the elements from this PDF as individual Wiki articles: Advanced Drop Caps Creating a circled diagram Creating a tiled image Creating borders Graphical elements for presentations How to fill a Scribus text with an image Text over images

Colour, Including ICC Profiles

• Color Management with Scribus, Part 1 - Scribus Documentation site
• Color Management with Scribus, Part 2 - Scribus Documentation site
• Color Management with Scribus, Part 3 - Scribus Documentation site
• Color Management with Scribus, Part 4 - Scribus Documentation site
• Getting and installing ICC profiles - Where to get and how to activate them.
• 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
• Monitor and Other Device Profiling
• Monitor Profiling - Scribus Documentation site
• Proposal for Monitor Profiling
• What is Rich Black? - my printer is talking about this
• Simple Scribus Spot Colour Printing method – outdated, see How to use spot colours with Scribus

Font and Typography Issues

• Adding typographic spaces to fonts with FontForge
• Applying styles - Video
• Converting Mac fonts for use with Scribus
• Installing additional fonts
• Text effects - Video
• Showing all the fonts used in a Document
• Typography – Make your text look good
• Using import filters, paragraph styles
• Using the right font
• Workaround for thin spaces

Importing, Exporting

Advanced Importing Tricks with Scribus - Scribus Documentation site Automatic import of images from a directory using a script - Older version, uses Tkinter Automatic import of images: Versions not requiring Tkinter - Preferred version, simpler scripts Export/Import capabilities of Scribus, OpenOffice.org, Inkscape, GIMP, and Krita How to import WMF files Import Publisher to Scribus Importing a long list with formatting into Scribus Importing addresses from a text file - Script Import an image in the way office-programs do - Script Importing EPS graphics into Scribus Importing text with filters - Video (see Part 3) Notes on Importing EPS - Scribus Documentation site

Notes on Importing HTML - Scribus Documentation site Notes on Importing Issues with Scribus - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Overview - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Creating your first PDF Form - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting and Javascript - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Online PDF Forms - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Presentations - Scribus Documentation site PDF Exporting - Workflow - Scribus Documentation site PDF/X-3 Exporting - Scribus Documentation site Scribus and OpenOffice.org - Scribus Documentation site Scribus SVG Import/Export - Scribus Documentation site Working with Photoshop - Scribus Documentation site

Installation

Linux

• Install Scribus from The Scribus Archive on Debian or Ubuntu
• Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running
• Building SVN versions with CMake
• A workaround for a Qt3 bug under SuSE 9.3
• Fedora Core - Troubleshooting - for Fedora 6, 7, 8 & 9, plus many more.

MacOS X

• Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
• Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (MacPorts/X11)
• Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
• Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (native version / Aqua)

Windows

• Building Scribus on Windows - this page is a work in progress, as is the idea of users building their own Windows versions
• Win32 version of Scribus

Other

• Using klik with Scribus - testdriving Scribus the easy way
• Ghostscript - Installing Ghostscript / Why does Scribus complain Ghostscript is missing?
• Getting and installing ICC profiles - Where to get and how to activate them.
• Including 3rd party documentation into Scribus help browser - How to install additional html docs.
• Installing additional fonts - Get your fonts working in Scribus.

Lists, Tables, and Table of Contents

• Building Tables
• Complex tables in Scribus
• Creating a bullet list - Video
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Creating a Table of Contents - Videos
• How to create lists in scribus 1.2x
• Importing a long list with formatting into Scribus

New Features of Version 1.3.8/1.3.9

Many new features are shown in the updated online manual that is included with Scribus. When it is fully updated, these wiki pages will likely be deleted.

• Version 1.3.4+ - Pre-Press

PDF Manipulation and Enhancement

Includes making special projects and imposition.

• Adding Hyperlinks to your Scribus PDF document
• Creating a brochure
• How to make a booklet
• How to make business cards
• How to make impositions with pstops
• How to make pdf impositions with pdfpages and pdfjam
• How to enhance your PDF forms with JavaScript — Learn how to use JavaScript in your PDF forms created with Scribus
• Shrinking a PDF from the command line
• Your first PDF form with Scribus - Learn how to create editable fields and clickable buttons with Scribus
• Your second PDF form with Scribus (and Javascript) — 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)
• A Brief Tutorial on Forms
• Web optimised PDF — learn how to minimize PDF size
• How to simulate Radio Buttons on PDF forms — 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 — Learn how to e-mail FDF data and extract the data into a spreadsheet or database
• Signing PDFs

Scribus Guided Tour

• Scribus Guided Tour:1 - Text flow around image contour, text frames with multiple columns, aligning to baseline
• Scribus Guided Tour:2 - Automatic page numbers, text flow around image frames, lines, shapes, polygons, text flow between chained frames
• Scribus Guided Tour:3 - Drop caps, import of vector graphics, shaped text
• Scribus Guided Tour:4 - Interactive PDF Forms with JavaScript Logic
• Scribus Guided Tour:5 - Barcodes
• Scribus Guided Tour:6 - Printer marks

Working With...

• Working with image frames
• Working with Master Pages
• Working with Scribus: How to begin
• Working with Story Editor
• Working with text frames

Miscellaneous

• Translating the Docs

• User-Developer Interaction

• Scribus files as XML