<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Friday 10 December 2010 16:12:27 randy.pare@rogers.com wrote:<br>
> Hi, really sorry to bug you guys. My name is r. j.<br>
> paré and I have been putting out an art - lit e-zine {RKYV ONLINE}<br>
> for years using MS Word for all my layouts.<br>
> I know, I know it is a word processing program<br>
> with limitations in regards to page layout.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>There is an old but excellent tutorial on the website. Did you try this?<br>
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Get_Started_with_Scribus<br>
It deals with a newsletter or magazine project.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>There are also animated video tutorials. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Finally, the manual, though expensive is invaluable. I also sell an e-book in pdf form covering questions of cover design:<br>
<span style=" font-style:italic;">http://www.</span><span style=" font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">book</span><span style=" font-style:italic;">locker.com/</span><span style=" font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">book</span><span style=" font-style:italic;">s/4055.html</span> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The basic unit in scribus is the page. The first screen you get allows you to define the dimensions etc. of a typical page in your document. If you are working on an existing Scribus document you can just close this screen and bring in the existing sla document via the File menu. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>A document contains pages, a page has one or more layers, and layers have frames drawn on them. Frames contain images or text.<br>
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Each page is by default one layer thick but often it is convenient or necessary to add layers. The default layer is white in color but added layers start out as transparencies. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On each layer you can add text frames and image frames. After you select the appropriate icon and draw the frame you deal with its dimensions, location, background color etc. by right clicking on the frame and selecting "Preferences" at the foot of the menu that appears. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>You can import images two different ways. In most cases you draw an image frame, right click on it, and select "get image". You can then adjust the frame to the image dimensions or adjust the image dimension to the frame. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> The other way is through the file menu. You select<br>
File->Import->Get Image <br>
or File->Import-> Get Vector file. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Vector files include things like eps, pdf and svg suffixed files. Imported images create their own image frame. If you have one of these use the file menu and not the image frame method.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>When you right click on a text frame you can then select "Edit text". This puts you into a special window called the "story editor." You can type text, use the enter key to end paragraphs, change the type font and size and do many other wonderful things. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Those are a few of the basic concepts of Scribus. It is page oriented, layered and uses frames for entering text and placing images. It is more like Quark Xpress, Photoshop or InDesign than it is like word processors like MSWord.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I suggest you go to the wiki first and browse around. Come back here with specific questions. We were all beginners once! (Some of us still are.)<br>
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John Culleton, <br>
typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com<br>
book sales http://wexfordpress.net<br>
Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/<br>
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