[scribus] book design

[Staffan Melin (Oscillator)]

Check out my site Libre Graphics Production which mainly deals with
book (print) production using Scribus. Tutorials, workflow
presentation, tools, etc.

http://libregraphicsproduction.com/

Good luck!

Staffan

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Michael Coughlin <coughlin at cheqnet.net> wrote:
> John:
>
>
> Thanks for your tips.  I posted a subsequent email noting that I have
> Scribus 1.4.1 and Windows 7 with 6GB ram and 64 bit operating system.
>
> I will experiment with your approach.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike Coughlin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jason Jordan [mailto:johnxj at comcast.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:45 PM
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] book design
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:13:59 -0600
> "Michael Coughlin" <coughlin at cheqnet.net> dijo:
>
>>I am trying to design a book using Scribus.  I have found on-line
>>tutorials which have been a great deal of help.  However, I think I am
>>missing pieces of the puzzle.  I have designed master pages for chapter
>>head pages and for subsequent chapter pages, but when I attempt to
>>insert text and have it flow from page to page automatically, it won't
>>do it.  I need to move it individually from page to page.  Then, when I
>>try to insert a new chapter page I can't get the chapter number and
>>then chapter title to fall in the right areas, to be followed with the
>>continuing text.
>
> You didn't say which version of Scribus you are using and whether it is on a
> Mac, Windows or Linux computer. How powerful the computer is and how patient
> you are can also have a bearing on the answer.
>
> Conventional wisdom is that for book layout you should use individual
> Scribus files for each chapter, then export each as a PDF, and finally, join
> the PDF files together with a PDF tool. Doing it this way keeps Scribus
> runnning fast; Scribus can become very sluggish when it has to deal with
> files of many pages.
>
> I never do it this way. Instead I use a very fast computer with lots of RAM
> and keep my book projects each in one file. That is, there is one file for
> the entire book, but I also keep a dummy file open where I work on just a
> few pages at a time, then copy them into the main document. The dummy file
> keeps Scribus performing very fast.
>
> As for your text flow issues, there is a fundamental difference between a
> layout app like Scribus and a word processor. In Scribus the page is
> everything; in a word processor the text is everything. If you insert text
> at the beginning of a word processor document the word processor will
> automatically create enough pages at the end to hold the text.
> Scribus will not do that. In Scribus all text must be in frames and the
> frames must be linked for the text to flow through them.
>
> I suggest you create a new Scribus document as an experiment. When you
> create the new document give it some random number of pages, and in the
> opening window tell it to create automatic frames (there is a checkbox for
> this). Then Scribus will create the document with a text frame on each page
> and all the frames will be linked. If you don't do this when you create the
> document you will have to create and link all the frames one at a time
> manually.
>
> Oh, and welcome to Scribus!
>
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