[Scribus] book cover

charles brooks broocg
Sat Oct 13 07:07:55 CEST 2007


Dear Louis,
  Thanks! I'll work on it.
Chuck


--- Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2007/10/12, charles brooks <broocg at yahoo.com
> >
> > Can anybody tell me how to lay out a front and
> back
> > book cover, with spine, using Scribus?
> 
> 
> Hi Charles,
> 
> Take all the measures of your cover. Create a new
> document to that size. You
> might eventually want to add bleed so you can make
> your document larger by 1
> inch more, and put your crop marks manually, which
> will allow you to add the
> bleed. Using the Page > Guide Manager create the
> guides for the spine and
> off you go. Within 5 minutes you'll be in front of
> your blank cover.
> 
> For the spine you'll probably want to rotate your
> elements to 90 degrees.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Louis
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> > Charles Brooks
> >
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