[scribus] New to Scribud

[ZASKE Martin]

Welcome new user.



Scribus is a DTP tool, not an office text processor like MS Word or 
LibreOffice Writer.

So if you type a text in Scribus, you are not using a classic work-flow. 
Typically a team would prepare all elements of a document (like text, 
illustrations, color scheme, color profile, legal information, other 
meta information) in specialized tools.

So for example you would type your text in Writer and do all your 
initial proof reading and spell checking and editing in your text tool, 
before you import into a text-frame in Scribus.

The strength of Scribus is in the total control over the formatting: 
Where and how you want to display your text; what size, what typeface 
(font), what spacings vertically and horizontally, margins, gutters 
between columns, etc.

So if you use the Story Editor in Scribus to enter new text, or even if 
you type directly into a text-frame, that is fine too (but possibly only 
suited to shorter texts). Be informed Scribus will not automatically 
create new text frames for you, if your texts gets too long. Scribus 
will just show you an overflow-hint in the bottom-right (sorry) corner 
of your text-box to alert you, that there is more text which does not fit.


So if you want more text-frames you can create and position them 
anywhere you want. You might first need to create more blank pages, or 
use the generator to make several more pages with a text-frame on each 
page (for books mainly I suppose).

In DTP you need to distinguish between pages and text-frames. Because 
there could be several text-frames on one page but each element needs to 
be placed on a page. All elements in a document are "anchored" on pages.

You can then look into the important feature in Scribus to have 
text-frames linked, so that longer text can flow through two or more 
text-frames.


Please try to make pages. Try to make text-frames. Just have a look at 
the toolbar (there are helpful hints on mouse-over) and have a browse 
through the menu.

You are welcome to ask more follow up questions, as you move along.

hth Martin

On 23.04.2020 07:43, dtrauttman at outlook.com wrote:
> 
> While we type a text in Hebrew (or Arabic) and when the written text is too long for a single page, a second page appears.
> 
> When we write in English, that second page appears on the right but when writing in Hebrew, it should appears on the left.
> 
> Is that option possible with Scribus?
> 
> Thank you for your answer!
> 
> David
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