
Step One: Creating a Document and a Page Background
You can select this palette under Color Sets in the Edit Colors dialog: Here we need a swatch called “Scribus X11”. The default color palette is called “Scribus Basic”, as you can see in the dialog. Make sure that no document is open, then go to Edit > Colors.
The Scribus logo from your Scribus install directory.īefore you start, you need to select the appropriate color palette for the project. Rembrandt's self-portrait from Wikimedia. The " Gentium and " Bitstream Vera Sans fonts installed on your computer. If you want to follow the description provided here, you need: For that purpose, you can see how a simple front page of a magazine for an imaginary Rembrandt exhibition is being created. 1.4 Step Four: Adding the Publishing “Company”īefore we start explaining Scribus in depth, it might be useful to get a “feeling” for the way Scribus works. 1.2 Step Two: Inserting the Cover Picture. 1.1 Step One: Creating a Document and a Page Background.