Scribus 1.3.5: Beginners Guide
暫譯: Scribus 1.3.5:初學者指南
Cedric Gemy
- 出版商: Packt Publishing
- 出版日期: 2010-12-09
- 售價: $1,840
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,748
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 348
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 1849513007
- ISBN-13: 9781849513005
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商品描述
Here's the manual you always wanted for Scribus. It takes you step-by-step through this fully featured Desktop Publishing program so that even absolute beginners will be creating professional-looking documents in no time.
Overview
- Master desktop publishing with Scribus
- Create professional-looking documents with ease
- Enhance the readability of your documents using powerful layout tools of Scribus
- Packed with interesting examples and screenshots that show you the most important Scribus tools to create and publish your documents.
Who This Book Is For
This book is for people who want to create professional-looking documents with Scribus. If you want a great looking brochure, newsletter, or poster, this is the book for you.
No experience of desktop publishing software is required – only creativity and enthusiasm for creating great documents!
What You Will Learn
- Create page layouts using functional options in Scribus
- Create a master page such that the changes are automatically updated in the rest of the pages too.
- Apply text and picture frames for accurate placement of text and images
- Use path tools and coordinate system to set the frame shape
- Links one frame with another if you want the text to fill all the pages
- Use paragraph and character style to make text handling more easier
- Import pictures of many types, including JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIF to make your documents appealing.
- Set the image resolution, layers, and clipping paths to construct accurate images
- Apply interesting effects to your images such as to make the text flow around an image or another frame
- Import content from OpenOffice document such as text, graphics or tables.
- Use shades and transparencies to predict perfect colors of the images to get improved image effects after printing.
- Set the incredibly powerful color management system to work trustfully with your colors and pictures
- Extend Scribus with python scripts using the Scribus API
In Detail
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning and inexpensive professional page layout to desktop computers with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Creating professional-looking documents using Scribus is not a cakewalk, especially with so many features at your disposal, it's hard to know where to get started!
Scribus Beginners guide walks users step by step through common projects, such as creating a brochure,newsletter, business cards and so on. It also includes guidelines on starting a web newsletter and online PDF (Adobe Acrobat format) newsletter along with basic scripting to extend Scribus as per your requirements.
This book begins with the simplest tasks and brings you progressively to adapt your workflow to the most efficient tools. It commences with the description of the graphic tool chain and an overall chapter on how to draw a simple and attractive business card. You'll then see how to manage the pages of your document and organized their structure thanks to guides. Then being invited to fill them with text, you'll be able to import, set text style as well as use replacement and hyphenation tool. Pictures or vector drawing will be added to the documents too. You'll be taught to choose the best format at the best time, modify or distort the shapes to get very custom documents. You will also learn how Scribus handles advanced color features such as transparencies, overprinting, spot colors precisely and be sure they are set well for a print result without bad surprise. At the end, you'll know to produce a perfect PDF file, be it for print jobs or web with effects, buttons and javascript interactivity, extend the document capacities as well as Scribus tools with simple programming especially with the python language.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這是您一直想要的 Scribus 手冊。它逐步引導您使用這個功能齊全的桌面排版程式,即使是完全的初學者也能迅速創建專業外觀的文件。
概述
- 精通使用 Scribus 進行桌面排版
- 輕鬆創建專業外觀的文件
- 使用 Scribus 強大的排版工具增強文件的可讀性
- 內含有趣的範例和截圖,展示最重要的 Scribus 工具,以便創建和發佈您的文件。
本書適合誰
本書適合希望使用 Scribus 創建專業外觀文件的人。如果您想要一個外觀出色的手冊、通訊或海報,這本書就是為您而寫的。
不需要具備桌面排版軟體的經驗——只需擁有創意和對創建優秀文件的熱情!
您將學到什麼
- 使用 Scribus 的功能選項創建頁面佈局
- 創建母版頁面,使更改能自動更新到其他頁面
- 應用文字和圖片框以準確放置文字和圖像
- 使用路徑工具和坐標系統設置框形狀
- 如果希望文字填滿所有頁面,則將一個框與另一個框連結
- 使用段落和字元樣式使文字處理更簡便
- 匯入多種格式的圖片,包括 JPEG、PNG、PSD、TIF,使您的文件更具吸引力
- 設定圖像解析度、圖層和裁剪路徑以構建準確的圖像
- 為您的圖像應用有趣的效果,例如使文字圍繞圖像或其他框流動
- 從 OpenOffice 文檔中匯入內容,如文字、圖形或表格
- 使用陰影和透明度預測圖像的完美顏色,以在列印後獲得更好的圖像效果
- 設定強大的顏色管理系統,以可靠地處理您的顏色和圖片
- 使用 Scribus API 擴展 Scribus 的功能,透過 Python 腳本
詳細內容
Scribus 是一個開源程式,將獲獎且價格低廉的專業頁面佈局帶到桌面電腦,結合了「印刷就緒」的輸出和新的頁面佈局方法。使用 Scribus 創建專業外觀的文件並不容易,尤其是當您擁有如此多的功能時,很難知道從何開始!
Scribus 初學者指南逐步引導用戶完成常見項目,例如創建手冊、通訊、名片等。它還包括有關啟動網路通訊和線上 PDF(Adobe Acrobat 格式)通訊的指導,以及基本的腳本編寫,以根據您的需求擴展 Scribus。
本書從最簡單的任務開始,逐步引導您適應最有效的工具。它首先描述圖形工具鏈,並提供一個關於如何繪製簡單且吸引人的名片的總體章節。接著,您將學會如何管理文件的頁面並組織其結構,感謝於指導。然後,您將被邀請填充文本,您將能夠匯入、設置文本樣式以及使用替換和連字符工具。圖片或矢量圖形也將被添加到文件中。您將學會在最佳時機選擇最佳格式,修改或扭曲形狀以獲得非常自定義的文件。您還將學會 Scribus 如何精確處理高級顏色功能,如透明度、重疊印刷、專色,並確保它們為列印結果設置良好,避免不良驚喜。最後,您將知道如何生成完美的 PDF 文件,無論是用於列印工作還是網路,並具備效果、按鈕和 JavaScript 互動性,擴展文件的功能以及 Scribus 工具,特別是使用 Python 語言進行簡單編程。