Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide

Here’s the manual you always wanted for Scribus. It takes you step-by-step through this fully featured Desktop Publishing program so that even absolute beginners will be creating professional-looking documents in no time.

Key Features

• Master desktop publishing with Scribus
• Create professional-looking documents with ease
• Enhance the readability of your documents using powerful layout tools of Scribus
• Packed with interesting examples and screenshots that show you the most important Scribus tools to create and publish your documents.

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create page layouts using functional options in Scribus
• Create a master page such that the changes are automatically updated in the rest of the pages too.
• Apply text and picture frames for accurate placement of text and images
• Use path tools and coordinate system to set the frame shape
• Links one frame with another if you want the text to fill all the pages
• Use paragraph and character style to make text handling more easier
• Import pictures of many types, including JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIF to make your documents appealing.
• Set the image resolution, layers, and clipping paths to construct accurate images
• Apply interesting effects to your images such as to make the text flow around an image or another frame
• Import content from OpenOffice document such as text, graphics or tables.
• Use shades and transparencies to predict perfect colors of the images to get improved image effects after printing.
• Set the incredibly powerful color management system to work trustfully with your colors and pictures
• Extend Scribus with python scripts using the Scribus API

Who this book is for

This book is for people who want to create professional-looking documents with Scribus. If you want a great looking brochure, newsletter, or poster, this is the book for you. No experience of desktop publishing software is required – only creativity and enthusiasm for creating great documents!