[Scribus] Book cover design

[charles brooks]

I've never designed a book cover before. Can you tell
me, step by step, how to create a front and back
cover, with the spine? I assume it's all on one
document -- facing pages?
Charles Brooks



--- Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:

> 
> >
> > For the pdf file the fonts should of course be
> embedded.
> > The presumption is that the sla file will be
> copied by others to other
> > machines. Is this frequent?
> >
> > I agree that there are more serious issues. IMO
> Scribus text justification
> > needs to be reworked according to the pdftex model
> before it is ready for
> > serious book use.  Then there are TOC, indexing,
> table generation, running
> > headers that change when the chapter changes,
> footnotes  and so on.
> >
> > Perhaps others do not share my need for adequate
> text handling. But if this
> > is not a goal someone should say so. Scribus is
> still superior for laying
> > out book covers, which is not a trivial task.
> 
> 
> You should watch the videos from LGM 2007,
> especially Andreas's. 
>
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/program.html
> 
> Text justification has changed a lot in 1.3.4 and
> all of these things will 
> continue to improve in 1.3.5+
> 
> Craig
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