[scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories

[LORN MACINTYRE]

Dear Steve,

Thank you for this valuable advice. I have 20 chapters (240 pages) of 
text formatted with running headline and page number footers, written in Word 
XP. So how may I turn these into PDF files which can be commercially printed, 
with the printer's instructions thus: "one single file set up in page order 
(excluding the cover or jacket, saved as single page to view and not as double 
page spreads., with fonts embedded, with crop marks selected so we know where to 
trim your text once it is printed. Minimu 10mm clear white space on all sides. 
Ensure that you are using CMYK workflow."

Regards,
Lorn 




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From: S B <sbinsandiego at gmail.com>
To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
Sent: Saturday, 8 January, 2011 23:11:04
Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories

Lorn, I have not used Scribus for this purpose, but I used it for preparing
lessons for a class in church some time ago. It works very very well for
that.  This is a similar applications, because the lessons I taught were
each fairly short, but the aggregate was fairly long.  I didn't use any
sophisticated formatting, but I did use lots of illustrations and drawings.
It works well for that. I can't give you guidance as to the processes,
because I actually WROTE the documents in Scribus rather than in a
word-processor.  I guess I wonder why you would use Scribus as the formatter
and not just use the word processing program.  I know that many novels have
been created in Word or Open Office (and other word processors), so it does
interest me. I have a couple nonfiction books I've been working on that I
did in Word, and that worked out quite well, and it was easy to do.
Steve Bradley

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, LORN MACINTYRE <
lorn.macintyre at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I am endeavouring to use Scribus in order to edit a novel of 20 chapters,
> importing the files from Microsoft Word via OpenOffice in order to preserve
> the
> formatting. There seems to be little information on the web about this type
> of
> project, so it would be good to hear from subscribers who have already done
> this
> for a novel or short story collection, so that I can profit from their
> experience and perhaps eventually put together a step-by-step process which
> will
> help other writers and save time and frustration with regard to font
> choices,
> kerning, etc.
>
>
> Thanks in anticipation,
> Scottie
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