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Scribus Wiki

Scribus Wiki

Video Tutorials These are links to several tutorials for Scribus. Skill Levels range from beginner to more advanced uses of Scribus. They are distributed in Theora format. Please see Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg) about how to play theora videos on your system. While it's not mentioned, RealPlayer is available for Linux, and works well. Getting Started with Scribus Getting Started with Scribus is a series of video tutorials in the English Language describing Scribus by way of creating a library newsletter from scratch. Main Site Mirror Site Frequently Asked Questions These are a new series of tutorials for various common tasks in Scribus. Three ways to apply paragraph styles All's Well That Ends Well Edit Contents of Frame and the Properties palette Story Editor Get Text... Synopsis of what you will see (action is fast): Creating bullet lists (while waiting for the proper implementation) Synopsis: Object frame border Polish

Craig Maloney » Scribus Tutorial Scribus is an incredibly powerful Desktop Publishing program similar to Microsoft Publisher and Pagemaker. Unfortunately, it’s power can seem a bit confusing and obfuscated to the novice user. In this series of audio / video screen captures, I create a newsletter for the Friends of the Majestic Maple Library from draft to PDF distribution. In this series, you’ll learn how to use text and image areas, as well as stylesheets, and the powerful story editor. You’ll learn about the preflight verifier, and will be able to create your own PDF documents from your Scribus creations. Videos: These videos are distributed in Theora format. Mirrors The complete videos are mirrored at archive.org. Local Part 1: Describes the fundamentals of Scribus, including the text area and the image area. (19MB)Part 2: Introduces the story editor and style sheets. (24MB)Part 3: Continues with the introduction to stylesheets, and demonstrates how to distribute your finished product. (28MB)

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