[scribus] book design

[Michael Coughlin]

Steffan:


Thanks so much.  I have much to learn from all of you.

Mike Coughlin

-----Original Message-----
From: Staffan Melin (Oscillator) [mailto:staffan.melin at oscillator.se] 
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 3:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [scribus] book design

Check out my site Libre Graphics Production which mainly deals with book
(print) production using Scribus. Tutorials, workflow presentation, tools,
etc.

http://libregraphicsproduction.com/

Good luck!

Staffan

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Michael Coughlin <coughlin at cheqnet.net>
wrote:
> John:
>
>
> Thanks for your tips.  I posted a subsequent email noting that I have 
> Scribus 1.4.1 and Windows 7 with 6GB ram and 64 bit operating system.
>
> I will experiment with your approach.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike Coughlin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jason Jordan [mailto:johnxj at comcast.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:45 PM
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] book design
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:13:59 -0600
> "Michael Coughlin" <coughlin at cheqnet.net> dijo:
>
>>I am trying to design a book using Scribus.  I have found on-line 
>>tutorials which have been a great deal of help.  However, I think I am 
>>missing pieces of the puzzle.  I have designed master pages for 
>>chapter head pages and for subsequent chapter pages, but when I 
>>attempt to insert text and have it flow from page to page 
>>automatically, it won't do it.  I need to move it individually from 
>>page to page.  Then, when I try to insert a new chapter page I can't 
>>get the chapter number and then chapter title to fall in the right 
>>areas, to be followed with the continuing text.
>
> You didn't say which version of Scribus you are using and whether it 
> is on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer. How powerful the computer is 
> and how patient you are can also have a bearing on the answer.
>
> Conventional wisdom is that for book layout you should use individual 
> Scribus files for each chapter, then export each as a PDF, and 
> finally, join the PDF files together with a PDF tool. Doing it this 
> way keeps Scribus runnning fast; Scribus can become very sluggish when 
> it has to deal with files of many pages.
>
> I never do it this way. Instead I use a very fast computer with lots 
> of RAM and keep my book projects each in one file. That is, there is 
> one file for the entire book, but I also keep a dummy file open where 
> I work on just a few pages at a time, then copy them into the main 
> document. The dummy file keeps Scribus performing very fast.
>
> As for your text flow issues, there is a fundamental difference 
> between a layout app like Scribus and a word processor. In Scribus the 
> page is everything; in a word processor the text is everything. If you 
> insert text at the beginning of a word processor document the word 
> processor will automatically create enough pages at the end to hold the
text.
> Scribus will not do that. In Scribus all text must be in frames and 
> the frames must be linked for the text to flow through them.
>
> I suggest you create a new Scribus document as an experiment. When you 
> create the new document give it some random number of pages, and in 
> the opening window tell it to create automatic frames (there is a 
> checkbox for this). Then Scribus will create the document with a text 
> frame on each page and all the frames will be linked. If you don't do 
> this when you create the document you will have to create and link all 
> the frames one at a time manually.
>
> Oh, and welcome to Scribus!
>
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