Scribus 1.3.5 Beginners Guide [Paperback]

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.

Overview

• 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.

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!

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 managemeló<