[scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories

Sun Jan 9 23:19:32 CET 2011

Dear Steve,

Again, thank you for your help. Will I be able to perform design functions such 
as kerning to  print quality in Word XP before transferring the files into PDF 
format? Or should I bring the files into OpenOffice and edit them there?

Regards,
Lorn 

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From: S B <sbinsandiego at gmail.com>
To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
Sent: Sunday, 9 January, 2011 21:04:18
Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories

Lorn, I've not tried this with Word, but quite a bit depends on what pdf
creator you are using.  Are you using adobe acrobat?  If so, that provides
great control.  If not, it should be fairly simple using one of the "cheap,"
or "Free" products.  Open Office will also convert to PDF in its latest
iteration, and Word '07 (and doubtless later) also saves to PDF.  If you
can, I'd leave it in Word, and convert from there. If your novel doesn't
include illustrations, it will probably be easier to do. I think that if you
want to do this for free, you'll be happiest bringing it into Open Office
and then converting from there.  You may wish to contact your printer and
make sure that there are no differences he can't handle.  As far as the crop
marks and embedded fonts, normally you can choose to embed the fonts when
you save or convert (whichever), and the crop marks--I'm not sure; normally
if I save and tell the program to retain crop marks, I can then see them on
the page, in gray.  CMYK? "K" is black. Do you have anything BUT black?  If
you have illustrations, you have a choice between CMYK and RGB, normally.
You may want to search Microsoft's knowledge base, and your help files, to
be certain you're doing this correctly. I'm happy to help in any other way I
can, but I'm not certain I know enough to provide accurate information.
Good luck.
Steve B.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, LORN MACINTYRE <
lorn.macintyre at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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