"Professional quality layout design with Scribus" - Kathy Reid (LCA 2020)

Kathy Reid

https://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule...

Scribus is an open source desktop publishing tool, akin to Publisher or InDesign. It is a powerful, complex application that produces beautiful, professional quality layout designs, suitable for printing or PDFing.

Scribus has a steep learning curve, and this can stop people from wanting to learn more about them.

In this 100-minute tutorial, we will cover

* Document setup, page sizes and margins
* Concepts of grouping, alignment and distribution
* Layout elements such as images, shapes and layering
* Working with text using character and paragraph styles, and a primer on fonts
* Colours for printing, and using the colour palette in Scribus
* Exporting to PDF and considerations for PDF such as file size reduction

Prerequisites:

* Ensure that you have Scribus installed on your laptop prior to attending the tutorial

linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/

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Fri Jan 17 13:30:00 2020 at Room 9