Scribus: Manipulate and Place Objects in a Layout

[ Thanks to Naheed
for this link. ]

“Layouts can be visualized in our minds, but doing it
with Scribus will be a manual job, and it’s time to practice. This
article will lead you through several design steps and will show
some of the Scribus workflow basics in action. As an example, we’ll
design one of the simplest documents in terms of functionality: a
business card. In this article by Cedric Gemy, author of Scribus
1.3.5 Beginner’s Guide, we shall:

“* Create a document
* Create and transform frames
* Import text and images
* Format text and images with simple options
* Save the document

“Creating a new layout

“Creating a layout in Scribus means dealing with the New
Document window. It is not a complex window but be aware that many
things you’ll set here will be considered definitive. If these
settings look simple or evident, you should consider all these
settings as important. Some of them like the page size mean that
you already have an idea of the final document, or atleast that
you’ve already made some choices that won’t change after it is
created. Of course, Scribus will let you change this later if you
change your mind, but many things you will have done in the
meantime will simply have to be done again.”

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Story