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At 0:30 we move on to Part 2 - the middle frame is selected, and Story Editor is brought up.

The page is scrolled to show the entire left frame text. Note that these styles are not present in Scribus by default, and have been created prior to the session you see in this video. Finally, the last paragraph's style changed to Body. In rapid fashion, the cursor is moved to the body text, and the style Body selected, then to the subheader and the style Subheader selected.

In Properties, the Text tab is selected, then down in Style the style Header is selected.

The left frame is selected with a double-click over the first line (note the cursor in the first line), thus activating Edit Contents of Frame mode (highlighted icon in toolbar), then the Properties window is brought up.

Three styles are applied to the text, using three different methods. Synopsis of what you will see (action is fast):ДЄction begins with a page showing three adjacent frames in a three-column layout with some arbitrary text (the long-cherished lorem ipsum) in the left-most and middle.

Edit Contents of Frame and the Properties palette.

Please note these were created using Scribus 1.3.3.9cvs or later.

Scribus net series#

These are a new series of tutorials for various common tasks in Scribus.

Scribus net how to#

Other topics include the using the preflight verifier, and a demo of how to create PDF documents. They cover how to use text and image areas, as well as stylesheets, and the powerful story editor. 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. Video Tutorials Getting Started with Scribus While xine will play them, moving backward and skipping forward are not options. While it's not mentioned, RealPlayer is available for Linux, and works well. Please see Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg) about how to play theora videos on your system.

Skill Levels range from beginner to more advanced uses of Scribus.

These are links to several tutorials for Scribus. 2.2.9 Converting text to outlines and to image frames.2.2.7 Creating a three fold document using Manage Guides dialog.2.2.6 Text frames, polygons, linking text frames and polygons, text overflow.2.2.4 Drop caps, baseline, text frame columns.2.2.3 Additional space between an image frame and the text.2.2.1 Three ways to apply paragraph styles.