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)

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

Scribus Tutorials - Where to Find Scribus Tutorials for Learning to Use This Free Desktop Publishing Software Scribus is a free desktop publishing application that's been compared to InDesign, much like The GIMP has been compared to Photoshop and OpenOffice compared to Microsoft Office. It's free and powerful. However, if you've never used professional page layout applications, it can be a bit overwhelming when you first open it up and try to create something. Scribus 1.4+ for Mac, Linux, Windows (Download) Demonstration Using Scribus Scribus tutorial video: jasonscottpage/youtube.com snip This is a quick moving overview that simply lets you get a feel for how you'll be using Scribus. Scribus Desktop Publishing Videos Scribus Tutorial Videos: ShowMeDo snip This is a very nicely done series of Scribus tutorials on videos at Showmedo. Scribus Video Tutorials Scribus Video Tutorials: Scribus Wiki snip Course: Get Started with Scribus Scribus Course: Open-of-Course

View Pages Side by Side ? [SOLVED] Dear Nermander First of all, I apologise.My criticism was harsh and wrong -- it was born of frustration rather than disrespect -- and I spoke from inexperience. My point was this: When it's left first, the pages are displayed side-by-side an butted up to each other, which is exactly as it would be in a book and is easy to handle on a wide screen -- I can see both pages at once. Right first is the layout of, for example, a single sheet within a book -- in left-to-right reading countries, you read the right-hand page first and then turn the page. Putting it simply, I want to be able to use the width of my big screen. But I agree that the way Scribus does it is correct. Yours contrite and in friendshipAlan