Category:HOWTO

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Installation

• Installing Scribus from CVS/SVN sources on Mac OS X/Aqua
• Installing Scribus on Mac with MacPorts
• Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
• Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
• Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (native version / Aqua)
• Installing Scribus on Win32 (Cygwin/X11 or coLinux/SPBLinux/XMing) - Obsolete - see Win32 version of Scribus.
• Compiling LPROF-1.09 on Debian Sarge Linux 2.6.8-1-386 - Obsolete - see the note on the page.'
• Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running
• Using klik with Scribus - testdriving Scribus the easy way

Support

How can I show what doesn't work?

• Share the .sla and the .pdf files
• If there is a bug, put the files in bugs.scribus.net (you can mark the bug as private if you only want the developers to see it).
• Make a screenshot and show how you see your file.
• If you're reporting the problem in IRC or in the mailing list you can upload your files
  • to your FTP or WEB server
  • to a file hosting service

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

Typical tasks

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

Working on the content

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

Fonts

• Right font 4 right purpose
• Typography – Make your text look good
• Adding typographic spaces to fonts with FontForge
• Converting Mac fonts for use with Scribus

Colors

• 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
• Simple Scribus Spot Colour Printing method – outdated, see How to use spot colours with Scribus
• Monitor and Other Device Profiling
• Proposal for Monitor Profiling

Special content

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

Creating PDFs

• Your first PDF form with Scribus — Learn, how to create editable fields and clickable buttons with Scribus
• Web optimised PDF: how to minimize PDF size
• How to enhance your PDF forms with JavaScript — Learn how to use JavaScript in your PDF forms created 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)
• Adding Hyperlinks to your Scribus PDF document — Learn how to add hyperlinks to PDF documents created through Scribus
• 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

Imposition

• Imposition tools
• Creating a threefold brochure
• How to make a booklet
• 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

• Index