Scribus hands on
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Work in progress: this document is still only a draft!
This document will tell you, how to do your first steps with Scribus without teaching you, how to use Scribus or how to do DTP.
It is not a brilliant idea to go this way: you should really read one of the several tutorials before starting to work with Scribus:
- links to several tutorials
You have been warned: Reading this document will help you putting a document together, but it won't really help you to do a good job.
Creating a new document
- size
- measurement unit
- adding pages
- setting guides
Adding content
- create text and picture frames
- filling and editing text frames
- concateanting text frames
- filling picture frames
- inline pictures
- adding page numbers to the master page
Producing the document
- printing (if it fails go through exporting to pdf)
- exporting to pdf
- collecting the document
What will be difficult to do
- lists
- mathematic formulas
- imposing (a booklet)
What you won't be able to do
- footnotes
- index
- edit pdfs