[scribus] Making an eBook with Scribus

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 14 22:53:53 CET 2010


On 01/14/2010 01:05 PM, Aljosa Vidmar wrote:
> Greetings
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, eric hanuise<ehanuise at fantasybel.net>  wrote:
>    
>> One of the main interest of e-books is to be device-independent, so you
>> should in fact stay clear of scribus for that kind of use.
>> (unless you mean an adobe acrobat document by 'e-book' in which case layout
>> is relevant.)
>>      
> Yes, by e-book I meant documents in PDF format.
>
> Also, I wonder If I should use master pages only for page numbering,
> or should I pay attention to other things as well?
>    
Depends on your desire. A master page could be used only for page 
numbering, if you wish. Initially, you were saying you wanted to keep it 
simple.

You may want to look at some methods for shrinking the size of the PDF:

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF

Greg




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