Creating your book's internal layout and design in Scribus
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- Use Scribus to create a professional-looking interior design for your book that any publisher of POD (print on demand books) will accept.
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Difference between DTP and Word Processors
2:16 Creating master pages
18:18 Creating Styles
26:12 Inserting Images
31:37 Importing Document (manuscript)
36:36 Connecting text boxes (flow)
38:43 Adding and removing pages
40:35 Positioning containers (text and image boxes)
43:21 Adding Chapters (changing Page Type)
47:25 Kerning (space between words and letters)
49:27 Exporting print ready file to PDF
52:04 Wrapup
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Hi, best intro to Scribus I've seen.
EDIT: This is really the best intro video to Scribus.
Seriously... thank you. I know this took time, but I really appreciate it.
Thank you. It's not great. I made it for an audience of one, and I want to redo it so that it's better and easier to follow. Scribus is a very powerful program, but it's open source, which means buggy and hard to learn. Is there anything in particular you'd like to know more about in the program? I'm thinking of doing a tutorial on cover design for print books using Scribus. What do you think?
@@sommerstone I had some issues with master pages with the 1.4.8 release version. I downloaded the 1.5.8 and it fixed my problem. I think I would like to know if I should use Auto generate text boxes or not. As far a cover pages, I think some folks would like it. I use photoshop for mine. If you were planning on re-doing the video. maybe adding a bleed demo or discussing it more. I dunno. I still appreciate your efforts so much.
@@tommyservo9660 I definitely want to redo the video. It's not very good, and I never thought it would get thousands of views. It was only ever intended for an audience of one, as a summary of numerous phone calls and sessions helping her format her book. It definitely needs to be redone, and I will do a more through overview of it's functions and features.
@@tommyservo9660 Sorry for the late reply. I've been at conventions most of the year. To answer your question, I would enable auto generate text boxes. It has caused me some weird issues where text boxes are generated without an actual page, so I have to go delete them, but I find it easier to do that then to create them manually and snap them to the margins.
As an aside, I now use Atticus (not sponsored) to create my content because it saves me time. It's not as good as Scribus, but it's awfully close, and as an independent publisher, it saves me a lot of time. It's not cheap, and I'm focusing these videos on free or inexpensive tools, but if you have it in your budget, you might want to check it out.
I'll provide a link below. I know that money can be tight, and as authors we often spend a lot of time in order to save money, but that takes time away from writing. Sometimes you have to spend money to save time, and each author has to decide where to invest their time and money.
For me, Atticus was worth the $147 because it saved me a lot of time, and while it's not as good an end result as what I can get with Scribus, it's close enough that the time it saves me makes it worth the cost and the very small difference in the quality of the final output.
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30:42 There is [Align and Distribute] in the [Windows] menu. It has a wonderful option to align an item relative to the margins so that we don't need to center frames manually. 😊
Excellent point. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for this content. Very helpful! 😊
Super. Thank you.
Very good introduction. But you should make a clear statement in it that it is just a first step. Without more advanced things like e. g. widow/orphan control or baseline grid it should be not send for printing.
I wish I watched this tutorial before I did my first typesetting project! Thankyou!
One question tho: Is it possible to change margins or content placement on right hand pages only, so that it applies to whole book, or do I need to move the content of those pages manually?
I have already set all pages and filled them with content, but it appears that when it prints with hardcovers, the right side gets eaten by the book saddle. Any way for me to easily move right hand pages content just a little bit, for all pages?
I'm glad the video helped you. I'm planning on redoing them as they are not up to the quality I'd like. I made them for an audience of one and never expected them to get thousands of views!
To your question, yes, there is a way, and it's fairly easy. You have an inside and outside margin which is how you keep the book from being "eaten by the book saddle."
You'll want your inside margin (closest to the book saddle) to be 0.625 inches (15.875 mm) and your outside margin to be .25 inches (6.35 mm).
This is pretty standard, but it can change depending on your trim size, but not by much. You can take your ruler tool in Scribus and set it to these parameters and turn on the snap to guides feature in Scribus, which will allow you to resize your text containers and have them snap to the guides. Once you do that, select a handful on the right side (I believe you can select them by holding down CTRL and left clicking on them) and then once you've selected the ones you want, grab the edge by the inside margin and resize to your new margin.
Hope this helps.
If not, let me know.
scribus story editor have how to add character style?
Hi MTM. I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you clarify?
Can someone tell me why the story editor does not keep the format that I set? it goes back to basic font and size regardless i update it. I reinstalled many times also tried different types and same outcome each time.
I've found to use "edit" then "styles" menu and was able to make/save changes. Cheers
The thing to remember that Scribus is NOT a word processor, and it works differently. You want to establish styles and apply them. If there is no style set, the default style will apply. In a word processor, when you change fonts and formats, code and formatting symbols are embedded within the text, but they're hidden to provide a WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) look. Scribus does not embed any code in the text itself, but configures the layout using styles that apply to segments of the text.
JD, I just started your tutorial for Scribus. I have already encountered a problem that does not work in the beginning of Master Pages-left. I follow you instructions to the letter, stopping rewinding to re follow what you are saying. On Master pages-left when I click on the area to place my name then click the "A" as you say, nothing happens. The box does not highlight in red as yours does and I can not put my name where you say it goes. I don't understand why my Scribus will not work as simply as yours does. I need help and am getting so frustrated. fred
Hey Fred. First I'm really sorry for the late response. I never anticipated the views these videos would get. Will you let me know if you're still having this issue, and I'll see if I can help you.
Thanks. I'm good. @@sommerstone
Why don't you hyphenate?
I do hyphenate, there just wasn't any need to in the section I was working on. This video is raw, very raw, and I never expected it to get the traction it has. It was meant for an audience of one, the individual with whom I'd had several phone calls and zoom meetings, and spent hours helping format their book for self publication. If I'd known it would get as many views as it has I'd have put more time into it and made it more comprehensive.