A cross platform free and open source desktop publishing program.
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Scribus book templates
I'm preparing a textbook; mostly text, with some illustrations, and I'm considering Scribus. Does anyone have any suggestions on using Scribus for book-length material, or know where can I find ...
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Scribus: scale image after cropped
Scribus lets you crop images easily by choosing "properties" > "image" > "free scaling". After cropping, you can even move the image around inside the frame by double clicking on the image and then ...
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How to crop an image in Scribus?
Is it possible to crop an image in an imageframe?
It's the first time I am using scribus, so this might be a dumb question, but adjusting layer to image and vice versa was immediately clear, but ...
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How to work efficiently with Scribus' Story Editor?
When working in Scribus' story editor, I still wonder how to enter text efficiently. As far as I can see, whenever I hit enter, a new paragraph gets created. Hereafter I have to manually select the ...
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Scribus vs InDesign or Quark? [closed]
For someone who has worked in the professional publishing industry, I rely on InDesign and Photoshop for creating professional documents, even if they're as simple as a business card. Sometimes I ...
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Free / cheap desktop publishing software for a book with some graphics? (OS X)
Nothing too complex. I need a few custom paragraph styles, and here and there a graph or diagram will be interspersed with the text.
I've looked at Scribus, and it seemed suited for my needs... only ...
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Framemaker feature - run on paragraph styles. Is this possible in scribus?
Framemaker will let you configure a paragraph style to run on after the finish of the paragraph. This is good for hanging paragraphs where the first line is really a subheading, Excuse the monospaced ...
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Importing a page onto a differently sized page in Scribus
I'm quite sorry for my unclear question.
I have two Scribus documents, the contents of a club magazine (i.e. everything from TOC to colophon) and the cover (which is in color). For space reasons I ...
