Gregory Pittman, Christoph Schafer et al.

Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing The Official Manual

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1 Installation 1

1.1 Scribus on Linux and UNIX 1

1.2 Scribus on Mac OS X 8

1.3 Scribus on Windows 9

2 Scribus Quick Start Guide 13

3 Scribus Basics 25 3.1 Basic Concepts 25 3.2 Workflow and Scribus 30 3.3 The Scribus Workspace 35 3.4 The Help System 37 3.5 Opening, Creating and Saving Documents 39

3.6 There's More Than One Way to Look at a Document 50

3.7 Navigating in a Document 55 3.8 Managing and Laying Out Pages 58 3.9 Working with Frames 62 3.10 Working with Text 70 3.11 Working with Styles 85 3.12 The Story Editor 91 3.13 Working with Images 96 3.14 Working with Shapes and Polygons 104 3.15 Straight Lines and Arrows 113 3.16 Bezier Curves and Freehand Lines 116 3.17 Colors and Gradients 118 3.18 Importing Vector Drawings 123 3.19 Tables 132 3.20 Master Pages 135 3.21 Page Numbering 139 4 Customizing Scribus 141 5 Advanced Features 155 5.1 The Scrapbook 155 5.2 Converting Frames 1-57 5.3 The Action History 159 5.4 Search and Replace 161 5.5 Attach Text to Path 162 5.6 Importing Text with Custom Text Filters 165 5.7 Typography 173 5.7.1 Fonts and Font Technology 173 5.7.2 Getting and Using Good Fonts 179 5.7.3 Font Preview a nd Font Management 183 5.7.4 Drop Caps 193 5.7.5 Short Words I95 5.7.6 Hyphenation 198 Table of Contents

5.7.7 Special Characters 200 5.7.8 Lists 205 5.8 Placing and Moving Items with Precision 209 5.8.1 Measuring Tools 209 5.8.2 The Properties Palette 21 1 5.8.3 Using the Keyboard 212 5.8.4 Rotating Items 213 5.8.5 Multiple Duplicate 214 5.8.6 Aligning and Distributing Items 216 5.8.7 Grids 219 5.8.8 Guides 221

5.9 Creating a Table of Contents 224 5.10 Layers 227 5.11 Managing Images 229 5.12 Image Effects 232 5.13 Extended Image Properties 235 5.14 The Barcode Generator 244 6 Colors and Color Management 247 6.1 The Eye Dropper 247 6.2 The Color Wheel 248 6.3 Spot Colors 252 6.4 Color Management 258 7 File Export 265 7.1 Text Export 265 7.2 Bitmap Export 266 7.3 Vector Export 268 7.4 PDF Export 271 8 Printing 285 8.1 The Print Preview 285 8.2 The Preflight Verifier 287 8.3 Local Printing 289 8.4 Booklet Printing 294 8.5 Preparing Files for Commercial Printing 301 9 PDF Forms 305 9.1 Introducing PDF Form Elements 305 9.2 PDF Form Features in Scribus 307 9.3 Enhancing PDF Forms with JavaScript 314 9.4 Emulating Radio Buttons 319 9.5 Annotations and Links in PDF Files 321 9.6 Viewers for PDF Forms 324

10 PDF Presentations 325 Table of Contents

11 TheScripter 333 11.1 Using Scripts 333 11.2 The Python Console 335 11.3 Script Info 337 11.4 Extension Scripts 338 11.5 Scribus Scripts 339 11.6 Scripting Basics 354 12 Tips and Tricks 357 13 Your DTP Toolbox 367 14 Appendices 393 14.1 Installing Scribus from the Command Line on Linux/UNIX 393 14.2 Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts 396 14.3 Scribus, QuarkXPress and InDesign Terminology 401 14.4 File Types and Resources Used by Scribus 402 14.5 Useful Links 404 14.6 Copyrights and Licensing 405 15 Glossary 411 16 Credits 429

17 Index 433