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Scribus On Line Help Program Author Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de
Version 0.9.1, Updated 8 November 2002
This is the second major revision to the documentation by Peter Linnell, netscribe@attbi.com completed for 0.8 - stable based on the original by the program author, Franz Schmid.
What's New in 0.9.1 ?
A much requested feature, MDI (mulitple document interface) is in Scribus. This give users the ability to have multiple Scribus Documents open, as well as copy paste/move objects between documents.
A new Hyphenator Plug-in has been added, greatly ehancing the text layout within Scribus. Hyphenator Documentation describes how this works.
There is a new scripting plug-in, including an interactive console, which allows Scribus to use Python as a scripting language. The first reference manual is here and is included in the plug-in installation,along with sample scripts. You can download it from the Scribus download page.
For documentation on the new interactive PDF form features in 0.8+, look at the documentation under PDF Export - Save As PDF
This User Manual describes Scribus 0.9.1 - developement, plus updates to the documentation since the last release.
1.Introduction
2. Installation
2.1 How to obtain Scribus
2.2 Requirements
2.3 Compilation and installation
2.4 Platforms
2.5 Compiling Scribus for the First Time
3. The Menus
3.1 File Menu
3.2 Edit Menu
3.3 Style Menu
3.4 Item Menu
3.5 Page Menu
3.6 View Menu
3.7 Tools Menu
3.8 Extras Menu
3.9 Help Menu
3.10 Preferences Panel
3.11 PDF Export and PDF Forms
3.12 Hyphenation
4. Questions and Answers
4.1 Scribus won't start,complaining about no fonts
4.2 Color Management does not show up in the panel
4.3 Placing Formatted Tables
4.4 My Palettes have Disappeared
4.5 SVG Output looks horrible.
5. Introduction to Scribus Color Management
6. Optimizing Your Desktop for Scribus
6.1 Linux for Desktop Publishing
6.2 Fonts,Fonts,Fonts
6.3 Printing Issues and Exporting PDF
6.4 Other DTP Tools
7. Useful Links for Linux DTP and Scribus
8. Change Log
9. Copyright
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