[Scribus] Full Circle Magazine: Nice series on desktop publishing with Scribus

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Sat Jun 9 15:38:57 CEST 2007


avox wrote:
>
> Maciej Hanski wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> the newest issue of the Ubuntu community magazine has started a series
>> of tutorials about desktop publishing with Scribus:
>>
>> http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-1/
>>
>> BTW, the magazine itself has been made with Scribus and it's 42 pages
>> long eye candy, 
>>
>>     
>
> Uh, IMHO the eye candy ends at page 3 due to the decision to use
> justification without hyphenation...
> It might also help to use a grid system to put some structure and proportion
> into all those boxes and screenshots.
> But the page headers are nice.
>
>
>
>   
>> so if the author was a member of this mailing list, he
>> could please consider adding some backstage infos to our
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Success_stories
>>
>>     
>
> Maybe he'll also accept a few hints for using Scribus:
>
> * apply Extras->Hyphenation for justified text
> * use properties palette's XYZ tab to make sure all headers start at the
> same y-position
> * activate View->Show Guides and drag guides from the horizontal and
> vertical ruler area onto the page to help you align your boxes
>
> Just my ? 0,02 (couldn't resist :-) )
>   
Looks like he's getting lots of advice, judging from the comments on the 
site, starting with someone complaining why it's in an "inaccessible" 
format like PDF.

Greg



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