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3.8 Tools Menu

One of the feature of most of Scribus tool palettes is the ability to be docked or snapping to the left or right of the document workspace. Simply left double-clicking will make the palette snap to the nearest free space in window. You can optionally drag them anywhere on the screen. When you drag the main tool bar, it will switch to a vertical orientation.

Hide Tools / Show Tools

Hides or shows the Toolbox. The tool bar can also be move by dragging to the left or right side of the screen and will be vertically oriented. In addition, you can enable show or hiding selected tools and palettes by hovering over a tool bar or a palette and right clicking and choosing from this menu below:

Showing or hiding Tool Selections

Hide PDF Tools

The PDF tool bar is separate from the file and editing tool bars. Dragging this to the canvas is helpful when creating many PDF fields in your document.

Hide Measurements / Show Measurements

Hides or shows the measurements palette. The measurements palette can also be "docked" by double clicking on the title bar.

Hide Colors / Show Colors

Hides or shows the Color-Palette. Note as of version 0.5 the color palette will have dynamic or static sliders for BRG and CMYK colors. The color tool can also be "docked" by double clicking on the title bar

Hides Outline / Show Outline

Hides or shows the Outline-Palette. This Palette can be very useful to select small Items or when you have a complex page with many items layered.

Hides Style / Show Styles

Shows or hide the paragraph styles included with the document. This is useful for formatting text with preferred font, size, color and justification. The styles palette can also be "docked" by double clicking on the title bar.

Hide / Show Scrapbook

The scrapbook is a very useful palette, which can store often reused components, like logos, repeated text blocks. The scrapbook is stored as a .scs file and should be copied with the working document if moved or backed up. You can have multiple scrapbooks, as well as one which is common to all documents. To copy something on the canvas, a text frame or picture, select and then right click drag to the scrapbook window. Once mastered it becomes, quite natural.

Hide / Show Layers



Page Layers Dialog


This tool shows an overview of the included layers in a document. This palette also adds the ability to raise, lower, add and subtract layers to a document. You can also choose with the check boxes which layers to print or to have visible while editing a document. Clearing the check boxes disables printing and/or viewing on-screen. After creating a layer, you can rename the layer by selecting and double clicking on the name box highlighted above. You can also select the layer you wish to edit by selecting from the tab next to the zoom tab on the status bar below:

Layer selection bar

Hide / Show Page Palette

This new feature can be used as the control center for handling applying templates, navigating pages, moving and inserting pages. The top half of the palette has the available templates for your document. The lower half has the actual pages within your document.

Page Palette in End to End Layout    Page Palette in Facing Pages Layout


You can do the following within the Page Palette:



Page Templates Layout


Above is an example of how to use a template which allows you to have recurring objects on several pages. The template page is has a background of black tinted at 5% to simulate glossy grey paper with a faded logo in the background. The eliminates the time to recreate this on each page.


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