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| Scribus is not a word processor, and it's not a graphics application, it's a layout application. It's a //part// of the publishing pipeline, but not the entire thing. Many users just getting started in design, or just getting started in the "right" method of publishing, get confused by the fact that there is a pipeline at all. It changes with need and preference, but generally the pipeline for publishing is something like this: | Scribus is not a word processor, and it's not a graphics application, it's a layout application. It's a //part// of the publishing pipeline, but not the entire thing. Many users just getting started in design, or just getting started in the "right" method of publishing, get confused by the fact that there is a pipeline at all. It changes with need and preference, but generally the pipeline for publishing is something like this: | ||
| - | [{{ publish-pipeline.png | A sample publishing pipeline. }}] | + | [{{ publishing.png | A simplified publishing pipeline: from many sources, into one. }}] |
| Before computers, designers literally cut and pasted all the different assets from the different departments onto pages (much as traditional 'zine artists do now). With Scribus, you can do all that cutting and pasting in the computer, pre-flight the results, and send the master PDFs to press. | Before computers, designers literally cut and pasted all the different assets from the different departments onto pages (much as traditional 'zine artists do now). With Scribus, you can do all that cutting and pasting in the computer, pre-flight the results, and send the master PDFs to press. | ||
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| When Scribus starts, it presents a setup screen so that you can define what kind of project you are going to work on. This might seem overwhelming at first, but it does encourage a bit of pre-planning. You should think about your intended delivery targets before you start designing. For instance, if you'll be using Scribus for CD booklet layouts, you would know that the paper size needs to be 4.25 inches by 4.25 inches. You would also know that if it is printed, the total number of pages in your layout must be divisible by 4 (since one 8.5 inch page, folded in half, renders four printable surfaces), and so on. Before diving into a serious Scribus project, plan ahead and know what kind of paper you are delivering to. | When Scribus starts, it presents a setup screen so that you can define what kind of project you are going to work on. This might seem overwhelming at first, but it does encourage a bit of pre-planning. You should think about your intended delivery targets before you start designing. For instance, if you'll be using Scribus for CD booklet layouts, you would know that the paper size needs to be 4.25 inches by 4.25 inches. You would also know that if it is printed, the total number of pages in your layout must be divisible by 4 (since one 8.5 inch page, folded in half, renders four printable surfaces), and so on. Before diving into a serious Scribus project, plan ahead and know what kind of paper you are delivering to. | ||
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| If you are not sure, then talk to your printer company. Find out what they expect to receive from you. Usually a "reader spread" is all they need, meaning you simply deliver to them what you want your readers to see, in the order the readers will see it. In this case, each “page” really means “printable surface”. So if you want to produce a flyer with two sides to it, you need two “pages” in Scribus, even though when it is printed, it will require only one physical piece of paper. Likewise, if you are folding an A4 page in half in order to create a pamphlet, you need 4 “pages” in Scribus even though you will only use one physical sheet of paper when printing. | If you are not sure, then talk to your printer company. Find out what they expect to receive from you. Usually a "reader spread" is all they need, meaning you simply deliver to them what you want your readers to see, in the order the readers will see it. In this case, each “page” really means “printable surface”. So if you want to produce a flyer with two sides to it, you need two “pages” in Scribus, even though when it is printed, it will require only one physical piece of paper. Likewise, if you are folding an A4 page in half in order to create a pamphlet, you need 4 “pages” in Scribus even though you will only use one physical sheet of paper when printing. | ||
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| If you have used Inkscape or GIMP's text tools, this is exactly the same concept; you are defining the boundaries for the flow of the text. To get text into your text frame, you could just start typing but Scribus isn't exactly meant to be a word processor. It's generally better to compose your content in a proper text editor like Emacs (or Libre Office, if you're less adventurous) and then import it into Scribus. The historical rationale behind this is that the layout artist, in large publications, is rarely the author or copy editor. Even for a small publication, the separation of the processes is smart; let Scribus be a layout application, and let text editors be text editors. | If you have used Inkscape or GIMP's text tools, this is exactly the same concept; you are defining the boundaries for the flow of the text. To get text into your text frame, you could just start typing but Scribus isn't exactly meant to be a word processor. It's generally better to compose your content in a proper text editor like Emacs (or Libre Office, if you're less adventurous) and then import it into Scribus. The historical rationale behind this is that the layout artist, in large publications, is rarely the author or copy editor. Even for a small publication, the separation of the processes is smart; let Scribus be a layout application, and let text editors be text editors. | ||
| - | To import text, right-click on your text frame and select **Get Text**, or just hit ''ctrl'' ''i'' on your keyboard. If you don't have a big text file lying around, navigate up through your file system to ''/usr/docs/gcc-*/'' and use the ''COPYING'' file. Import it as text (not as a comma delimited file). Alternately, you can right-click your text frame and select **Sample Text** for some place-holder //Lorem Ipsum// content, but for the sake of this exercise use enough sample text to provide an overflow. You'll know you have overflow by the red X in the lower right corner of your text frame. | + | To import text, right-click on your text frame and select **Get Text**, or just hit ''ctrl'' ''i'' on your keyboard. If you don't have a big text file lying around, navigate up through your file system to ''<nowiki>/usr/docs/gcc-*</nowiki>'' and use the ''COPYING'' file. Import it as text (not as a comma delimited file). Alternately, you can right-click your text frame and select **Sample Text** for some place-holder //Lorem Ipsum// content, but for the sake of this exercise use enough sample text to provide an overflow. You'll know you have overflow by the red X in the lower right corner of your text frame. |
| [{{ scribustext.jpg?666 | Don't panic, the text overflow just means you have a lot of great content. }}] | [{{ scribustext.jpg?666 | Don't panic, the text overflow just means you have a lot of great content. }}] | ||
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| If you were only interested in text, you wouldn't be using Scribus. The point of Scribus is that it makes complex layouts easy to create. Once you have your text in your layout, it's time to start adding images. | If you were only interested in text, you wouldn't be using Scribus. The point of Scribus is that it makes complex layouts easy to create. Once you have your text in your layout, it's time to start adding images. | ||
| - | To get an image, you can visit http://search.creativecommons.org and search for Creative Commons images, or use your own. | + | To get an image, visit [[http://search.creativecommons.org]] and search for Creative Commons images, or use your own. |
| - | To insert an image into your layout, click the Insert Image Frame button in the top toolbar, or press the [I] key on your keyboard. Draw a bounding box to define where you want an image to appear and then press control-i to insert an image (or right-click on the empty bounding box and select Get Image). | + | |
| - | Choose the image you want to appear in the bounding box area, and then click OK. | + | To insert an image into your layout, click the **Insert Image Frame** button in the top toolbar, or press the ''i'' key on your keyboard. Draw a bounding box to define where you want an image to appear and then press ''ctrl'' ''i'' to insert the image (or right-click on the empty bounding box and select **Get Image**). |
| - | At first, you might not see all of the image, or any image at all if your image has an alpha channel around it, even after you have completed this process. This is a common issue, because many images are too large to fit into the space you have provided. Fix this by right clicking the bounding box and choosing Adjust Image to Frame. | + | |
| - | Now the image will be scaled down into your bounding box, but your text runs right through the image. You need to perform a text wrap. | + | Choose the image you want to appear in the bounding box area, and then click **OK**. |
| - | A text wrap is performed from the Properties window, in the Shape tab. You wrapping text around images, you have four or five different options. | + | |
| - | Disabled: text wrapping is turned off. Good if you are using an image as a background texture and want your text to flow over it. | + | At first, you might not see all of the image, or any image at all if your image has an alpha channel around it, even after you have completed this process. This is a common issue, because many images are too large to fit into the space you have provided. Fix this by right clicking the bounding box and choosing **Adjust Image to Frame**. |
| - | Use Frame Shape: uses an internal bounding box called a “frame”, which you can modify with the Edit button in the Shape tab. This will cause the text to ignore the rectangular red bounding box and wrap itself instead around the frame that you draw around the shape. | + | |
| - | Use Bounding box: the rectangle you drew with the Insert Image Frame tool. It is always rectangular. | + | Now the image is scaled down into your bounding box, but your text runs right through the image. You need to perform a text wrap. |
| - | Use Contour Line: this is a separate frame that never cuts off the visibility of your image. You can think of it like a force field that controls exactly how far in or how far away text can come to your image. It's very useful if you want text to fill in little gaps here and there but cannot modify your image frame without accidentally cropping the actual image. | + | |
| - | Use Image Clip path: uses paths as defined by path objects, not useful for image bounding boxes. | + | A text wrap is performed from the **Properties** window, in the **Shape** tab. When wrapping text around images, you have four or five different options: |
| - | If you are familiar with editing paths with nodes, then you can click the Edit button and modify the exact path against which the text will flow. Otherwise, you can use the bounding box as your wrapping definition. Either way, you will notice that the text in your text box flows around the image now, rather than through it. | + | |
| - | Background Images | + | * Disabled: text wrapping is turned off. Good if you are using an image as a background texture and want your text to flow over it. |
| + | * Use Frame Shape: uses an internal bounding box called a “frame”, which you can modify with the Edit button in the Shape tab. This will cause the text to ignore the rectangular red bounding box and wrap itself instead around the frame that you draw around the shape. | ||
| + | * Use Bounding box: the rectangle you drew with the Insert Image Frame tool. It is always rectangular. | ||
| + | * Use Contour Line: this is a separate frame that never cuts off the visibility of your image. You can think of it like a force field that controls exactly how far in or how far away text can come to your image. It's very useful if you want text to fill in little gaps here and there but cannot modify your image frame without accidentally cropping the actual image. | ||
| + | * Use Image Clip path: uses paths as defined by path objects, not useful for image bounding boxes. If you are familiar with editing paths with nodes, then you can click the Edit button and modify the exact path against which the text will flow. Otherwise, you can use the bounding box as your wrapping definition. Either way, you will notice that the text in your text box flows around the image now, rather than through it. | ||
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| + | ==== Background Images ==== | ||
| Of course, sometimes you do want an image to be sitting in the background with your text floating over it. This is also possible with Scribus. | Of course, sometimes you do want an image to be sitting in the background with your text floating over it. This is also possible with Scribus. | ||
| - | Add a new text field to a new page if required, and flow the text into it. Draw an Insert image Frame bounding box over one of your pages, or a portion of your page. Add an image with control-i into the image bounding box, choosing a high-resolution photo for your background. | ||
| - | Once you have an image in your bounding box, you should see that your image covers up your text. This is because the image box was added after the text box; you need to send the image to a lower layer so that the text is sitting on top of the image instead of the other way around. | ||
| - | To adjust the layer hierarchy, click the X, Y, Z tab in the Properties window. Click on your image box and use the green arrows in the Properties window to lower the background to the very bottom layer. | ||
| - | You should see the text above the image, but probably the image is a lot more intense than you really want; after all, you don't want to make your readers struggle to make out the text over your background. A common trick here is to make the image less opaque; since the true background is white, this has the effect of mulitplying white by all values in the image, increasing the brightness of each pixel. The background therefore becomes muted, and the text stands out. | ||
| - | {{ scribusbg.jpg?666 }} | + | Add a new text field to a new page if required, and flow the text into it. Draw an **Insert image Frame** bounding box over one of your pages, or a portion of your page. Add an image with ''ctrl'' ''i'' into the image bounding box, choosing a high-resolution photo for your background. |
| - | To adjust opacity, click the Colours tab of the Properties window. At the bottom of the colours panel, ajust the Opacity (under Transparency Settings) to something less than 50% or so. | + | Once you have an image in your bounding box, your image covers up your text. This is because the image box was added after the text box; you need to send the image to a lower layer so that the text is sitting on top of the image instead of the other way around. |
| - | Sidebars and Breakouts | + | |
| - | In many magazines, there are sidebars or breakout sections in an article or story which gives related information that does not directly depend upon the rest of the text. For instance, the pamphlet being created in this article is the text of the GNU Public License (GPL) and has somewhat appropriate images (the GNU cartoon head is the logo of the GNU software group which programmes much of the software used in Linux, and the open field photo by Tim Sackton suggests openness and freedom). Perhaps in addition to these elements, we might want to suggest some places where the GPL has been used to license technology. This would be a perfect use case for a sidebar. | + | |
| - | To create a new sidebar, draw a text frame down the side of a page with the Insert Text Frame tool. If needed, re-size any existing text frame so that your text does not overlap your new text frame. | + | |
| - | Type in the text for your sidebar. Now to separate this sidebar from the rest of the article, give it a background colour by clicking the Color tab in the Properties window. In the Color tab, click the paint bucket icon for Fill and select a colour. If none of the primary colours provided appeal to you, you can define new colours in the Edit menu > Colors. | + | |
| - | {{ scribusbar.jpg?666 }} | + | To adjust the layer hierarchy, click the **X, Y, Z** tab in the **Properties** window. Click on your image box and use the green arrows in the **Properties** window to lower the background to the very bottom layer. |
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| + | You should see the text above the image, but probably the image is a lot more intense than you really want; after all, you don't want to make your readers struggle to make out the text over your background. A common trick here is to make the image less opaque; since the true background is white, this has the effect of multiplying white by all values in the image, increasing the brightness of each pixel. The background becomes muted, and the text stands out. | ||
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| + | [{{ scribusbg.jpg?666 | Send a image to the background. }}] | ||
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| + | To adjust opacity, click the **Colours** tab of the **Properties** window. At the bottom of the colours panel, adjust the **Opacity** (under **Transparency Settings**) to something less than 50% or so. | ||
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| + | ==== Sidebars and Breakouts ==== | ||
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| + | In many magazines, there are sidebars or breakout sections in an article or story which gives related information that does not directly depend upon the rest of the text. For instance, the pamphlet being created in this article is the text of the GNU Public License (GPL) and has somewhat appropriate images (the GNU cartoon head is the logo of the GNU software group which programmes much of the software used in Linux, and the open field photo by Tim Sackton suggests openness and freedom). | ||
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| + | Perhaps in addition to these elements, we might want to suggest some places where the GPL has been used to license technology. This would be a perfect use case for a sidebar. | ||
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| + | To create a new sidebar, draw a text frame down the side of a page with the **Insert Text Frame** tool. If needed, re-size any existing text frame so that your text does not overlap your new text frame. | ||
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| + | Type in the text for your sidebar. Now to separate this sidebar from the rest of the article, give it a background colour by clicking the **Color** tab in the **Properties** window. In the **Color** tab, click the **paint bucket** icon for **Fill** and select a colour. If none of the primary colours provided appeal to you, you can define new colours in the **Edit** menu → **Colors**. | ||
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| + | [{{ scribusbar.jpg?666 | Create a sidebar. }}] | ||
| You can also adjust the shade of the colour with the Shade control in the Color tab. | You can also adjust the shade of the colour with the Shade control in the Color tab. | ||
| - | The text, by default, stretches to the very edges of the text field boundaries. You can add some padding around the edges in the Text tab of the Properties window. Use the Columns & Text Distances subsection to adjust the margins within a text field. Add just enough padding to bring the text away from the edges, and you'll end up with a nicely formatted sidebar. | + | The text, by default, stretches to the very edges of the text field boundaries. You can add some padding around the edges in the **Text** tab of the **Properties** window. Use the **Columns & Text Distances** subsection to adjust the margins within a text field. Add just enough padding to bring the text away from the edges, and you'll end up with a nicely formatted sidebar. |
| ====Document Links==== | ====Document Links==== | ||
| If you're using Scribus, you might be going out to actual paper at a professional printer's, but you might also want to enable your document as a more dynamic electronic paperless document as well. The most ubiquitous format that straddles both digital and print formats is PDF, and in PDF files, you can embed hyperlinks much as you would on a website, so that a user can click on keywords and be automatically taken to a specific page. | If you're using Scribus, you might be going out to actual paper at a professional printer's, but you might also want to enable your document as a more dynamic electronic paperless document as well. The most ubiquitous format that straddles both digital and print formats is PDF, and in PDF files, you can embed hyperlinks much as you would on a website, so that a user can click on keywords and be automatically taken to a specific page. | ||
| - | To create a link in a document, click the Insert Text Annotation button (it looks like a yellow sticky note) in the top toolbar. Draw the hotlink bounding box around the word or image you want to make clickable. You can always reposition or re-shape the clickable region later, so don't worry if you don't get it exactly right the first time. Once finished, double-click the region to see the Annotation Properties window. | ||
| - | In Annotation Properties, set Type to Link, and then set the Destination to whatever page in your document to which you want that hotlink to take the user. You can also link to other documents or websites. | + | To create a link in a document, click the **Insert Text Annotation** button (it looks like a yellow sticky note) in the top toolbar. Draw the hotlink bounding box around the word or image you want to make clickable. You can always reposition or re-shape the clickable region later, so don't worry if you don't get it exactly right the first time. Once finished, double-click the region to see the **Annotation Properties** window. |
| - | Once you export your document as a PDF, this hotlink will become active. If a user views the PDF in a PDF reader and clicks on a link, the PDF reader will take the user to the appropriate page. If you have linked to a website, the user's default web browswer will launch and open a window or tab to the appropriate URL. | + | In **Annotation Properties**, set **Type** to ''Link'', and then set the **Destination** to whatever page in your document to which you want that hotlink to take the user. You can also link to other documents or websites. |
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| + | Once you export your document as a PDF, this hotlink will become active. If a user views the PDF in a PDF reader and clicks on a link, the PDF reader will take the user to the appropriate page. If you have linked to a website, the user's default web browser will launch and open a window or tab to the appropriate URL. | ||
| ==== Exporting ==== | ==== Exporting ==== | ||
| - | Whether you intend to stay digital-only and distribute your document as a PDF, or whether you want to have it professionally printed, the final step in your workflow is to export your masterpiece to PDF. One of the things that the PDF format is best for is to ensure that a document looks exactly the same from the time it is sent off to a printer until it is committed to the physical page. You certainly wouldn't want to send your original Scribus file to a printer, and even if you felt that your printer had Scribus available to them, you would never want to risk sending the original file for fear of fonts changing from system to system, links to images failing, and so on. PDF is the pre-flight format of choice. | + | Whether you intend to stay digital-only and distribute your document as a PDF, or whether you want to have it professionally printed, the final step in your workflow is to export your masterpiece to PDF. One of the things that the PDF format is best for is to ensure that a document looks exactly the same from the time it is sent off to a printer until it is committed to the physical page. |
| - | To export to PDF, go to the File menu > Export > Save to PDF. | + | |
| - | First, a Preflight Verifier window will open. This is an automated check through your document that will catch common errors. Not all errors are blockers to your process; in the document being created for this article, the verifier warns that an image has transparency on page 3 and the text overflows on page 4. Image transparency does cause some problems for some printers, at least theoretically (I have used a number of professional printers in a number of states and have yet to encounter these theoretical issues), and text overflowing would normally be a problem but in this example I don't mind that my text gets cut off on page 4. | + | You certainly wouldn't want to send your original Scribus file to a printer, and even if you felt that your printer had Scribus available to them, you would never want to risk sending the original file for fear of fonts changing from system to system, links to images failing, and so on. PDF is the pre-flight format of choice. |
| - | In other words, use the Preflight Verifier as an advisor. Just because you see warnings or errors, it doesn't mean you can't continue to export. When in doubt, go back and check over your document to make sure it looks how you think it should look, and then continue to save to PDF. | + | |
| + | <WRAP important> | ||
| + | If your printer is tries to open your PDF file in an editor to make adjustments, find another printer; the PDF format is designed to be, in part, a pre-flight format. Its purpose is to ensure that what you send digitally is exactly what you see in print. If a printer needs to modify the contents of a PDF, then their workflow is wrong (they should at least be communicating to you what needs to change so that you can change it and send a new version), and you should use a different company. This is not a philosophical argument! | ||
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| + | To export to PDF, go to the **File** menu → **Export** → **Save to PDF**. | ||
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| + | First, a **Preflight Verifier** window will open. This is an automated check through your document that will catch common errors. Not all errors are blockers to your process; in the document being created for this article, the verifier warns that an image has transparency on page 3 and the text overflows on page 4. Image transparency does cause some problems for some printers, at least theoretically, and text overflowing would normally be a problem but in this example we don't really care that the text gets cut off on page 4. | ||
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| + | In other words, use the **Preflight Verifier** as an advisor. Just because you see warnings or errors doesn't mean you can't continue to export. When in doubt, go back and check over your document to make sure it looks how you think it should look, and then continue to save to PDF. | ||
| A PDF export dialogue will open, and it has a lot of tabs. Don't panic. Most options are already set to sensible defaults for you. There are a few you should change: | A PDF export dialogue will open, and it has a lot of tabs. Don't panic. Most options are already set to sensible defaults for you. There are a few you should change: | ||
| - | In the General tab, set Maximum Image Resolution to 300dpi if you plan on distributing as PDF as well as hardcopy. If you intend only to print, then don't set a maximum. | ||
| - | In the Fonts tab, choose to Embed All Fonts. | ||
| - | In the Color tab, choose your intended output. If you intend to deliver digitally and to the printer, use the Printer output option as it is suitable for both. | ||
| - | In the Pre-Press tab, place a check next to the Use Document Bleeds option. | ||
| - | When satisfied, click the Save button. Exporting to PDF can take time, since Scribus has to composite all of those different elements together. Give it a few moments, and then go and look at your finished product on your drive. View it in a PDF reader like Evince or Okular so that you can see the document at its best. If it looks good on screen, it ought to look just as good in print. | ||
| - | If you do send it to a professional printer, be sure to let them know that you are sending a “reader spread”, meaning that the PDF you are sending is in the order that it is meant to be read, not printed. The printer can re-arrange the pages in the order that their printers require in order to print each page on the appropriate side of each page. | + | * In the General tab, set **Maximum Image Resolution** to 300dpi if you plan on distributing as PDF as well as hardcopy. If you intend only to print, then don't set a maximum. |
| + | * In the **Fonts** tab, choose ''Embed All Fonts''. | ||
| + | * In the **Color** tab, choose your intended output. If you intend to deliver digitally and to the printer, use the ''Printer'' output option as it is suitable for both. | ||
| + | * In the **Pre-Press** tab, place a check next to the **Use Document Bleeds** option. | ||
| + | * When satisfied, click the **Save** button. | ||
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| + | Exporting to PDF can take time, since Scribus has to composite all of those different elements together. Give it a few moments, and then go and look at your finished product on your drive. View it in a PDF reader like **Okular** or **xpdf** so that you can see the document at its best. If it looks good on screen, it ought to look just as good in print. | ||
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| + | If you do send it to a professional printer, be sure to let them know that you are sending a **reader spread**, meaning that the PDF you are sending is in the order that it is meant to be read, not printed. The printer will re-arrange the pages in the order that their printers require in order to print each page on the appropriate side of each page. | ||
| ====Page Layout and Beyond==== | ====Page Layout and Beyond==== | ||
| - | Scribus is a professional-grade layout application with many more features than just the basics covered in this article. When designing, don't hold yourself back just because you don't know how to make something happen; find out how to do it, and design what you see in your mind's eye. Don't listen to the advertisers and consumers who try to convince you that you need special for-pay software to do what you want to do. Scribus and Linux has been used for professionally printed magazines, posters, postcards, stickers, flyers, pamphlets, and more, that have distribution as wide and sometimes wider than popular printed matter created with high dollar software. With Scribus, sometimes combined with GIMP, Inkscape, and Linux, it's all possible. | + | Scribus is a professional-grade layout application with many more features than just the basics covered in this article. When designing, don't hold yourself back just because you don't know how to make something happen; find out how to do it, and design what you see in your mind's eye. Scribus and Linux has been used for professionally printed magazines, posters, postcards, stickers, flyers, pamphlets, and more, that have distribution as wide and sometimes wider than popular printed matter. With Scribus, combined with a few other choice open source tools and your own creativity, it's all possible. |
| <WRAP tip> | <WRAP tip> | ||
| **See Also** \\ | **See Also** \\ | ||
| - | krita \\ | + | [[krita|Krita]] \\ |
| - | mypaint \\ | + | [[mypaint|Mypaint]] \\ |
| - | inkscape \\ | + | [[inkscape|Inkscape]] \\ |
| - | darktable \\ | + | [[darktable|Darktable]] \\ |
| - | lightzone | + | [[lightzone|Lightzone]] |
| </WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
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| - | =========================== | + | <wrap fa>[[screenwriter|R]]</wrap> <wrap fa>[[start|S]]</wrap> <wrap fa>[[seq24|Q]]</wrap> |
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| - | [[{arrown.png|border:0;background:none;width:0;display:inline-block;float:right;}fonts|]][[{arrowp.png|border:0;background:none;width:0;float:right;}ffmpeg|]] | + | |