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* 1.3.4 is an old development version which should have disappeared few weeks after its release but is still downloaded and used after almost two years: DON'T TOUCH IT!! Please use the stable version or a recent development version.
* 1.3.4 is an old development version which should have disappeared few weeks after its release but is still downloaded and used after almost two years: DON'T TOUCH IT!! Please use the stable version or a recent development version.


==GUI / Interface / Command line==
==GUI / Interface==


===Language===
===Language===

Revision as of 22:20, 13 December 2008

Other languages: Polski (pl) Portuguese (pt_BR)

Work in progress

a.l.e: i'm trying to reformat this FAQ as a list of question *and* answers. if i don't succeed, please revert to the last version before the 13 december 2008.

Installing and running Scribus

Platform

Linux

  • If you don't need anything fancy, use your packet manager to install Scribus.
  • If you want to be more up to date than your distribution is, you can add Scribus own repositories. They are available for Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Suse, and Ubuntu (links needed)
  • If you want to test the newest feature (or if there are no binaries for your platform) you can compile the source code you get from sourceforge (link) or from the svn server (link)

OS X

  • The stable version is only available through Fink or Darwinports (links?)
  • Snapshots of the development version are availabe on Sourceforge (link)
  • At the moment, there is no way to compile yourself Scribus for OS X

Windows

  • Binaries are available on Sourceforge (link)
  • It's not easy to compile. The BUILDING_win32.txt explains how to do it.

Version

Stable version

1.3.3.12 is the stable version: use it for your normal work.

Development version

  • 1.3.5svn: use it if you want to try out Scribus or if you need new features which aren't available in the stable version (link to a page which describes how to protect yourself when you're using the development version)
  • 1.3.4 is an old development version which should have disappeared few weeks after its release but is still downloaded and used after almost two years: DON'T TOUCH IT!! Please use the stable version or a recent development version.

GUI / Interface

Language

  • Scribus picks up your environment language. If you want to use another language for your GUI, just go the menu "File / Preferences", and in the "General" section set the language you prefere for the interface.

Input

Images

Graphics

PDF

Text

  • tagged text (tbc)
  • You can import Openoffice.org .odt files and Scribus will recognize most formattings and style sheets. You can manage how the formatting is handled from the import dialog. (link)
  • You can direclty import Microsoft Word (.doc) documents but you will lose all formattings. You'd better use Openoffice.org and save the document in .odt format.
  • Microsoft RTF documents can't be read from Scribus: you should use Openoffice.org to convert them to .odt or save them in .doc from Microsoft Word.

Editing

Document type

Books

  • Currently, Scribus isn't very good at managing documents which are longer than 30 pages. You should split your work in several Scribus documents and join the pdf afterwards (link)
  • You can set the value for the first page number (more)
  • You can't automatically create a table of contents over several files.
  • You shouldn't make too long chains of text frames
  • You can automatically create text frames which are automatically chained (link)
  • You can create (multilevel?) table of contents (TOC).
  • No index, no footnoes.

Booklets

Flyers

Create a file of the size of the whole flyer and use the guides to separate the different "columns".

Language

  • The hyphenation language can be choosen in the "Hyphenation" section of the menu "File / Preferences".
  • The language for the spell checker (if available in your version) is to be set in the character style.

Colors

Spot colors

Color Management

Fonts

Loading fonts

  • You can get good free fonts from (link)
  • Scribus will automatically discard fonts which could lead to problems in a printshop

Embedding and vectorizing fonts

Output

Hardware

  • How can i profile my monitor? (tbc)

Old items

Installation

Usage

PDF issues

Fonts

DTP

Printing issues

Other

Pages in category "FAQ"

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