A hands-on guide to successful document design with Scribus, the free-software desktop-publishing application. We'll make Scribus's distinctive tools and workflows accessible to users accustomed to office suites like LibreOffice and HTML+CSS design on the web. We'll also take the next step and explore how DTP with Scribus empowers you to tackle bigger and more professional-level document design and publishing.
- Navigating the Scribus user interface: what you need to use, what you don't need to use, and how to know the difference.
- The firewall between content and layout: templates and master-page workflow.
- Letters and words: font management and typographic frameworks, including multi-lingual and multi-script documents.
- Consistency across applications: dissecting LibreOffice documents and document templates, and translating Scribus document, paragraph,
and character styles to CSS.
- Advanced workflows for long documents and working with multi-person teams.
- How to recognize when Scribus is not the tool for the job, without throwing in the towel.
