Scribus open pdf files

Publisher is only available in two of the high-end Office packages. Publisher and PowerPoint have two different focuses for student learning. Publisher teaches desktop publishing where PowerPoint focuses on presentations. A Publisher project is easily converted to pdf and added to class websites, emails, etc.

PowerPoint loses much in a conversion. Affinity Publisher is capable of opening, importing, placing and exporting a range of document, raster and vector graphic formats directly.

Imported file has to be saved as a Publisher file. Supported elements are: pages, text frames and text formatting, vector objects with various fills, bitmaps, clipping paths.

SeniorCare2Share Care about seniors? Have knowledge? Care to share? Note that there are many open source graphic design solutions that can be used instead of or in conjunction with Adobe InDesign. For more on this subject, check out my articles: Expensive tools aren't the only option for graphic design and never were and 2 open source Adobe InDesign scripts. When developing this solution, I read a few blogs on how to edit InDesign files with open source software but did not find what I was looking for.

That worked much better, so that's the workaround I used in the following examples. Opening and editing my InDesign business card file in Scribus worked fairly well. The only issue I had was that the tracking the space between letters was a bit off and the upside-down "J" I used to create the lower-case "f" in "Jeff" was flipped. Otherwise, the styles and colors were all intact.

The book conversion didn't go as well. The main body of the text was OK, but the table of contents and some of the drop caps and footers were messed up when I opened the InDesign file in Scribus.

Still, it produced an editable document. One problem was some of my blockquotes defaulted to Arial font because a character style apparently carried over from the original Word file was on top of the paragraph style. Scribus allows you to create a variety of documents such as reports, brochures, and business cards and save them as an.

SLA or. GZ file. Scribus provides templates for each style of document, which helps save time if you do not want to start from scratch. If you want to use your own page layout for multiple documents you can save your document as a template too. The four Heading styles use centered bold text of various sizes 1 is largest, 4 is smallest.

The Leading styles are used to insert a small amount of blank space between paragraphs. The remaining paragraph styles have very specific purposes: Dateline : used to format the date and issue number. Footer : formats the page number at the bottom of each page after the first. Flag : used for the journal's name. There are two Character Styles.

Default Character Style sets the font family used in the various text and header paragraph styles. It is set to Times New Roman in order to be compatible with a large number of systems. Eventually, you may wish to use a different text font available on your computer. As you will learn in Exercise 12, changing it in this one style will change it in all of those other paragraph styles.

The other character style, Flag and Date controls the font used in the Flag and Dateline paragraph styles. For compatibility with the greatest number of systems, it is set to Arial. Eventually you can modify the styles to your liking, but for now leave their default settings alone. Close the Style Manager window by pressing the X in the top-right corner. Exercise 3: Adding a Title Page In this exercise, you will type a title, issue number, and month for the amateur journal.

You will also add the AAPA logo. To get started, be sure you are on page 1 of the template file. When you click in the center of page 1, a red rectangle will highlight the text frame. Your cursor will be at the top of the right-hand column in the Story Editor window; this is where you will enter text.

The first line is the title of the journal; call it "Example Journal". After typing those characters and pressing enter to end the first paragraph , the left-hand column will display the style of the paragraph default is No Style. Click in that entry and select Flag from the pop-up menu.

Press enter two more times, then type "Number 1" tab "June " As you did with the first line, click on the final line's paragraph style in the left column, but this time select Dateline. You can leave the intermediate blank lines as No Style.

Click your cursor inside the page 1 text frame above the Published for the line, and then press enter several maybe 20 times, until the bottom line disappears. Notice that the text frame now has a red X in a box near the bottom-right corner; this is the indication that the text has overflowed from the frame. Press backspace once to remove one of the blank lines; the dateline will reappear and that X will disappear.

If the dateline doesn't reappear, press backspace until it does. Next, add the AAPA emblem to the title page. Move the cursor to the space between the title and the Published for the lines, click and hold the left button down where you want the upper left corner, drag the cursor to where you want the lower right corner, and release the left button.

You should see a red rectangle with a black X through it. When you move the cursor over the image frame, the cursor turns into a hand. You can use your mouse to adjust the frame's position. When the Open dialog appears, be sure the Look in folder at the top of the dialog points to the AJ Pubs folder. Select the file AAPAlogo.

The logo should appear inside the image frame, but it is likely that your frame is too small to hold the entire logo.

To make it fit inside your frame, right-click inside the image frame and select Adjust Image to Frame from the pop-up menu. To change the size of the frame, you can drag the "handles" located on the frame's corners or the mid-points of the sides The image should automatically resize to match your adjustment. Select the emblem's image frame by clicking on it in the main window. In the dialog window, on the Align tab, set the Relative to control to Margins in the pull-down menu.

Click the top-middle icon; hovering over it shows the title Center on vertical axis. You can close the dialog window by clicking the X in the upper-right corner.

Exercise 4: Loading Text From an. For anything beyond the simplest text, you will create an OpenDocument Text file using LibreOffice Writer, and then load that text file into a Scribus text frame. For this exercise, we will use the file Round. Load the text into the empty text frame chain that begins on the second page.

Use the control at the bottom of the Scribus main window to navigate to page 2, then click inside the page 2 text frame to select it it will turn red. Be sure the Look in folder at the top of the dialog points to the AJ Pubs folder.

Find the Round. A smaller window will pop up with four selection boxes; check only the three top boxes, then press the OK button. Scribus took the name of the ODT file and added it to the front of each paragraph style that it imported. There are slight differences between the newly imported styles and the original Scribus paragraph styles, so you will replace the LibreOffice ones with the equivalent Scribus styles.

Next press the Delete button near the bottom of the Style Manager window. A Delete Styles window should pop up -- but notice that only one of the paragraph styles is listed!

I believe this is a bug, but not a serious one. When you remove a paragraph style, you have the option to replace it with another. Select all three as before and press the Delete button.

This time all three should appear in the Delete Styles window. Make the three appropriate Replace with selections and press the OK button. When you are all done making the changes, press the button in the bottom-right area of the Style Manager. The formatted text in the main Scribus window will change slightly, mainly due to differences in spacing between lines. Exercise 5: Prepare for Second Article Conclude the first article's text chain on page 4 by unlinking it from page 5.

You could start a new article on the top of page 5, but that would leave a lot of unused space on the bottom of page 4. Instead, you will shorten the text frame of page 4, add a new text frame on the bottom of that page, and link the new frame to page 5. To disconnect the text chain between pages 4 and 5, select the frame on page 4 by clicking in it turning its outline red. The text chain arrow between pages 4 and 5 should disappear. To shorten the frame on page 4, select it making its outline red , then drag the handle in the center of the bottom line up until it is close to the last line of text.

To add a new text frame on the bottom of page 4, copy an empty frame from another even-numbered left side page. Go to page 6 and select its text frame by clicking in it. The new frame on page 4 is full-sized, covering the shorter one at the top. Since the new frame is currently empty that is not a problem, but as soon as you add text it will overwrite the end of the first article. Shorten this new frame by dragging the handle at the top-center down until it is below the frame on the top of the page.

A new text chain arrow should appear between pages 4 and 5. Click inside the text frame on page 5 to select it it will turn red. As before, in the OpenDocument Importer window ensure the top three options are selected and then press the OK button.

Burton Crane's "Use the Meat-Axe" should appear in the text box on the bottom of page 4 and chain on to pages 5 through 8. Delete and replace them as you did in Exercise 4. Exercise 7: Adding Decorations and Fine-Tuning In this exercise you will add a horizontal line between the two articles, add an illustration to the second article, adjust inter-paragraph spacing in the "Use the Meat-Axe" article, and restore some italic formatting that was lost during the import.

It will be a little high, so use the down-arrow key to move it where you want it. Creating this frame is similar to the way you created the one on page 1. To make the axe fit inside your frame, right-click inside the image frame and select Adjust Image to Frame from the pop-up menu.

Move and resize the image frame until the axe is a good size and well positioned. Notice the image covers some of the text so it cannot be read. To get the text to flow around the image instead of under it , you will need to change the image's properties. To open the Properties window, either type F2 or right-click in the image frame and select the bottom item in the pop-up menu, Properties.

You should notice the text move around the image as soon as you make the selection. The image is still too close to the text. Expand the Contour Line around the image. Choose the Edit Select the Edit Contour Line checkbox.