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This document will try to tell you, how to do your first steps with Scribus without teaching you, how to use Scribus or how to do DTP.
Work in progress: this document is still only a draft!


It is not really a brilliant idea to go this way: you should really read one of the several tutorials before starting to work with Scribus:
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
* links to several tutorials


You have been warned: Reading this document will help you in putting together a document with Scribus, but it won't really help you to do a good job.
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==
==Creating a new document==

Revision as of 20:00, 31 August 2008

This article is part of the HOWTOs series.
Installation Usage PDF issues Imposition Other

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