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    Creating Print On Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1
    Creating Print On Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1
    Creating Print On Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1
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    Creating Print On Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1

    By D. J. Mills

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    If you want to create professional Interiors and Covers for your Print-On-Demand fiction books with easy to follow steps using the open source software Scribus, then this is the book for you.

    The knowledge and skills you will learn in the exercises will enable you to present your readers with a professional layout every novel.

    This book covers:
    • How to create reusable templates
    • How to import text from Word documents
    • How to create paragraph and character styles
    • How to remove spaces using Tracking and Kerning
    • How to use Tracking to remove Widows and Orphans
    • How to automate Page Numbering
    • How to generate a Table of Contents
    • How to insert graphics
    • How to compile into PDF files ready for CreateSpace
    • How to use the same skills to create Non-Fiction layouts

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTift Publishing
    Release dateOct 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301062461
    Creating Print On Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1

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      Creating Print On Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1 - D. J. Mills

      Creating

      Print On Demand

      Interiors & Covers

      Using

      Scribus 1.4.1

      by

      D. J. Mills

      Tift Publishing

      Creating Print on Demand Interiors & Covers Using Scribus 1.4.1

      Copyright © 2013 by D.J. Mills

      All rights reserved.

      Published 2013 by Tift Publishing at Smashwords

      http://www.tiftpublishing.com

      Book and Cover design copyright © 2013 by Tift Publishing

      This instruction book is licensed for your personal use only. All rights reserved.

      DISCLAIMER AND/OR LEGAL NOTICES: The steps described in this guide are used by the author and have been successfully employed by the author to lay out both covers and interiors used to create PDF files for Print On Demand books. This guide is for informational purposes only. While this guide works for the author, the author offers no guarantee that the Scribus program will work for the reader. The author has no connection to the Scribus programmers and holds no responsibility for the Scribus program or its use by others. While every step in this guide has been verified using Scribus on the author's computer, the author assumes no responsibility for inconsistencies, inaccuracies, errors, or omissions associated with the use of Scribus by others.

      Acknowledgements

      My thanks and gratitude to my first readers

      who helped to locate all the errors

      I placed in the first draft.

      Table of Contents

      Creating POD Interiors Using Scribus

      What is Scribus

      Installing Scribus

      Why use Scribus

      Scribus Help Documents

      CreateSpace Requirements

      Requirements Before Building Templates

      Scribus

      Scribus Main Window

      Create a New Document

      Master Pages

      Add New Template

      Copy a Template

      Import Master Pages

      Delete a Master

      Add Header/Footer

      Story Editor

      Add Pages

      Linking Pages

      Delete Pages

      Page Numbering Sections

      Paragraph Styles

      Fonts

      Font Size, Leading, Tracking and Kerning

      Creating Interior of Book

      Preparing Text in Word

      Importing Front Matter Text

      Importing Chapter Text

      Importing Back Matter Text

      Page Numbering

      Inserting Graphics

      Generating Table of Contents

      Compiling into PDF

      Adding ISBN to Front Matter

      Creating Book Covers

      Create Template with Calculated Measurements

      Insert Image

      Front Cover Text

      Spine Text

      Back Cover Text

      Saving Your Cover File

      Final Information

      References

      About The Author

      Creating POD Interiors using Scribus

      What is Scribus?

      Scribus is open source software that works similar to InDesign.

      Scribus imports formatted text saved as .ODT, .HTML, and .CSV files. If you use LibreOffice or OpenOffice to create an .ODT file extension, your formatting will be imported to Scribus along with the text.

      However, if you use Microsoft Word, or other text programs, Microsoft documents (.DOC) files and (.TXT) text files will import with-out formatting. This means you will do all your formatting inside Scribus. This is not a problem because I do format the text after it is imported into Scribus.

      You can also copy the text from the program where you created the novel and paste it into the Scribus text frames, and once the text is formatted, Scribus exports to a PDF file.

      You do not need to purchase this book, to learn Scribus. You can go to the below link and work your way through the Help topics at your own pace to create interiors and covers for Print On Demand books.

      There is much more to learn than required to produce novel interiors. You can produce newspaper column documents. You can produce PDF forms for your web site. You can produce business cards and many other layouts.

      I have read all the Scribus help files to learn how the program worked with text such as tagged files, filtering imported text, text frame, styles, creating PDF forms, master pages with bleed areas, margins set, pagination, leading, tracking, kerning, inserting photos or images, headlines, and much more, in the Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing Help documentation at wiki.scribus.net under canvas/Help:TOC

      I will cover the areas in Scribus that are the same as InDesign that I was taught to produce both interiors and covers for my novels.

      Installing Scribus

      To install Scribus you go to the Scribus site at www.scribus.net under canvas/Scribus and click the Download link. Select the download files link relating to your computer and operating system and follow their instructions in Installation, located in the left menu list on the Scribus site.

      I installed Scribus version 1.4.1 with no trouble installing or using, except for the few anomalies adding pages and losing text frames, as mentioned later in this manual.

      Scribus Help Documents

      Scribus Help Documents has many other tools you can use in your layout of books, including columns for newsletters, tables for non fiction books, lists, and PDF Form Authoring (web forms).

      You can learn how to set up Table of Contents and Indexes, Hyphenation, adding extra Font families, or External Tools in File => Preferences window.

      Why use Scribus?

      I wanted to make my Print On Demand Fiction books have the same professional look as traditionally published books, and from what I understand, they mostly use InDesign for the layout of the interiors. This

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