


Scribus 1.4.1 pdf#
Readers will then be guided through the creation of several types of documents, like books, magazines, PDF forms or fliers. Next follows a quick start guide, along the lines of the one provided by Scribus‘s Online Help, except that he lets the user create a poster and introduces more features. The introduction includes a short description of the principles of Free Software. A much appreciated addition is the many infoboxes with very valuable backgound information about things like overprinting, bézier curves or even the workings of the book market/the printing business. Instead, his main focus is to help users to get good results as quickly as possible, but he also added a few chapters on general issues, like working with text frames etc. Among others, he has written books and articles about PageMaker and InDesign before he discovered Scribus.īruijnes' book is not a full-fledged manual. The author of this book, whose main title can be translated as "Where is the trick?", while at the same time referring to the crease in a book cover, is a former school teacher who started a successful second career as a book author and IT trainer for professional job-training organisations, as well as companies.

IPAA Service, Kampen (The Netherlands), 286 pages, four colour print, flex cover, EUR 35,– Gerrit Bruijnes, Waar zit de Kneep? Opmaak, Vormgeving & Publicatie met Scribus 1.4.4
