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Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide
Create optimum page layouts for your documents using productive tools of Scribus
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- Table of Contents
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Scribus
- Desktop publishing software versus text processors
- The graphic workflow
- Understanding the workspace
- Time for action – using the main status bar options
- The toolbar
- Properties Palette: The main place
- Layout and story editor
- Software and per-document preferences
- Time for action – how Scribus applies changes
- + Working comfortably in Scribus
- + Customizing Scribus a bit
- To InDesign and Xpress users
- Summary
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Chapter 2: Creating a First Layout
- Creating a new layout
- + Time for action – setting page size and paper size and margins
- Save the document as often as possible
- Basic frames for text and images
- Time for action – adding the logo
- Time for action – adding the text
- Time for action – adding and setting the color of a shape
- Changing the stack of objects
- + Moving objects and exact positioning
- Time for action – use X and Y properties
- Basic text properties
- Time for action – formatting text
- + Resizing objects
- Scaling objects
- Time for action – scaling the name of our company
- Rotating objects
- Time for action – the quick method for rotating an object
- Aligning objects
- Time for action – aligning an object on another
- Locking objects to prevent errors
- Grouping objects
- Mirroring objects
- Summary
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Chapter 3: Mastering Pages
- Navigating in the document
- Time for action – let's surf into the document
- The Arrange Pages window
- + Adding and deleting pages
- + Time for action – a new page after the cover
- + Time for action – adding several pages
- Arranging pages
- Customizing page properties
- + Creating and deleting master pages
- + Time for action – using default master pages
- Time for action – hands on master page
- + Applying master pages
- Sharing pages and master pages between documents
- Time for action – reusing pages
- Numbering pages
- Time for action – page numbering
- Adding sections
- Guides
- Time for action – a simple three-folded document
- Grids
- Summary
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Chapter 4: Using Text in Scribus
- Creating Text Frames
- Setting Text Frame options
- + Size and position
- Importing simple text
- Time for action – import it from Shakespeare land!
- Linking and unlinking Text Frames
- Time for action – import it from Shakespeare Land, going on!
- Flowing text
- Time for action – let's jump into the flow!
- Editing text in the layout and hyphenation
- Time for action – automatic hyphenation
- Story Editor
- Find and change some words
- Time for action – replacing a text format overall in the document
- Short Words
- Time for action – automatic replacement with Short Words
- Dealing with special characters
- + Time for action - adding glyphs on your page
- Manual TOC using tabs
- Time for action – creating a Table of Content
- Exporting text
- Summary
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Chapter 5: Formatting Your Text
- + The three ways of changing a property
- + Time for action – the font sizes
- + Time for action – stroking letters
- Paragraph formatting
- Time for action – improving white spaces and alignment
- + Managing fonts and Fontbook
- Time for action – setting a custom font directory
- + Using styles
- Time for action – working with styles
- Importing styled documents
- Time for action – import a Writer document
- Importing a structured document
- Summary
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Chapter 6: Special Frames for Complex Content Management
- Using tables
- Time for action – creating a table
- Time for action – formatting tables
- + Time for action – modifying rows and columns
- + Time for action – linking content through cells
- Time for action – importing a OOCalc table
- Bullets with inline frames
- Time for action – using inline frames
- + Understanding the render frame
- + Time for action – creating your first render frame
- + Time for action – e=mc2
- Time for action – Scribus scrapbooking
- Summary
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Chapter 7: Drawing Advanced Frames and Shapes
- Frame conversion and text to outlines
- Time for action – images in a text shape
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing polygons
- Mesh distortion
- Time for action – distorting a shape
- Mixing shapes with path operations
- Have a go hero – let's create a mix!
- + Lines
- + Time for action – drawing lines with the Pen tool
- Time for action – attach text to a line
- Point to modify existing lines and shapes
- Drawing paths with the Bezier tool
- Time for action – creating custom paths with the Bezier tool
- Summary
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Chapter 8: Importing Images
- Importing and exporting: The concepts
- Importing photos
- Relinking photos
- Time for action – creating a postcard
- The Scribus paste special
- Placing vector drawings
- + About graphic file formats
- File information
- Image resolution and scaling
- Graphic display properties
- Image layers
- Working with clipping paths
- Time for action – using clipping path twice
- Image effects
- Time for action – applying color to an imported graphic
- Summary
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Chapter 9: Applying and Managing Color
- Applying colors in detail
- Time for action – applying colors to a Text Frame's text
- + Applying shade or transparency
- Time for action – transparency and layers
- + Gradients and pattern fill
- Time for action – using patterns and gradients in a layout
- Create and import colors
- + Time for action – managing new colors
- Time for action – importing from a Scribus document
- Spot colors
- Time for action – replacing colors
- Choosing colors that suit
- Color management
- Time for action – managing colors in Scribus
- Summary
- + Chapter 10: Print Your Layout
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Chapter 11: Customizing the Creation or Viewing Process
- PDF option toolbar overview
- Time for action – adding hyperlinks
- Bookmarks
- Time for action – adding bookmarks to your PDF documents
- Annotations
- Buttons and form tools
- Time for action – sell your shoes and help clients choose!
- Display and viewing options
- + Time for action – communicating with the reader application
- Light-weight PDFs
- Time for action – using a predefined script to reduce file size
- PDF interaction
- Time for action – calculate the sum of the fields
- Scripting basics to extend Scribus
- Time for action – adding a script
- Time for action – importing from databases with a script
- Summary
- + Appendix: Pop Quiz Answers
- Index
This book is a step by step guide packed with interesting examples and screenshots that cover lot of support options to help you achieve the superior quality documents. This books is divided into 11 chapters, each chapter dealing with a precise aspect of the software to help you have the best overview and make the best design choices for your document. 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!
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Publication year : 2010
License: All rights reserved ©
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