Scribus - Basics of Desktop Publishing (SCRBS)

Graphics, 2D Graphics

This hands-on course teaches professional desktop publishing with Scribus, focusing on practical layout, precise typography and creating print-ready publications. Participants will design business cards, flyers, posters, brochures and multi-page documents efficiently.

Through guided exercises you will master the Scribus user interface, object manipulation and page organization, plus graphics import and color handling. The course covers styles, templates and prepress checks to produce consistent, print-ready PDFs.

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• Introduction
1. What is meant by typesetting

• Difference between layout programs and word processors
1. Comparison of Scribus with other layout programs

• Getting started with Scribus
1. User interface

• Creating printed materials
1. Workflow steps for creating print documents
2. Creating and setting up a new document
3. Saving files
4. Document viewing modes
5. Guides, grids and their settings

• Geometric shapes and objects
1. Text and image frames
2. Shapes and polygons — creation, properties, editing, practical use
3. Transformations, alignment and object stacking, copying and duplicating objects

• Working with color
1. Colors, color models and color mixing

• Working with text
1. Brief history and development of typefaces
2. Font types and their sources
3. Text properties and formatting
4. Basic typographic rules
5. Text flow — chaining frames and text wrapping around shapes
6. Paragraph and character styles — defining and applying them

• Pages in a document
1. Page insertion, numbering, moving, editing and organization
2. Page layout
3. Master pages — definition, use and editing

• Importing external graphics
1. File formats suitable for import
2. Managing imported graphics

• Printing
1. Prepress checks
2. Configure output and create print-ready PDF files

Assumed knowledge:

Basic computer skills; familiarity with image files is helpful.

Schedule:

2 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )

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