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3.2 Edit Menu

Cut, Copy, Paste

These items work as usual. Users should be aware drag and drop is partly enabled by dragging with the right button, instead of the left. Once remembered, quite usable. To drag something from the scrapbook to the document, use the left mouse button. You can Left Drag:

You can also copy and paste text the from the KDE clipboard from applications like Kwrite, Kword and Kedit.

Drag Pictures into a Picture-Frame.
Drag Text files into a Text box.
Drag Text from another Applications into a Text box.
Drag Items from Konquerer to Scribus.

With the right Mouse button you can:
Drag Items to another place in the Document (copying it).
Drag Items to the KDE-Desktop.
Drag Items to Konquerer.
Drag Items to another application, where they appear as Text.

Clear

Clears a text box.

Select all

Crtl + A -(Default) Selects all text in a text box.

Colors

Brings up a dialog box where you can edit or create custom colors of the document. The append function is for copying a custom color from one document to the color palette. This will bring up a file open dialog from which can select the document which has the custom colors. Clicking OK will bring in the custom colors into the color palette. This is very useful for bringing in a custom CMYK color from a logo for example, where an exact match is required.

Style

This new option, enables creation of paragraph styles, including font, sizing, alignment, indentation and line spacing. By default, a new document, does not have a default style. To create a Style, select new which brings up the dialog below:


Editing Paragraph Styles

Once you have created a style, you can then create variations of this style, by duplicating a style, then adjusting and saving as a new style.

Template

Users of other desktop publishing applications might find the same type of functionality they know also as "master pages". Thus, you can create a template, which then can be applied to all pages within a document or enable separate templates for cover, index and body pages for example. Templates are specific to a document. This is useful if you need a series of pages for example with a background on all pages or default text boxes for page numbering, headers or footers. Templates can hold most objects within a Scribus document, incuding pictures, backgrounds, text boxes and graphic objects. Adding Automatic Page Numbers - is quite simple. Go to Edit > Templates, then create a text frame where you want the page number to appear. Then, in edit mode, enter Alt+#. (US Keyboard users, are recommended to re-map this key to F7 for example.) Save the template and return to the main document.

Javascripts

This function is for adding global javascripts to a document, which is destined for PDF. You can open prexisting scripts or select New, which will bring up a small console type editor. Within this, you can also select field within the document to add javascript functions to individual fields. For more info on Javascript and PDF, see the tutorial within an interactive PDF: Javascript and PDF.and Javascript References on the Links Page.

Preferences

The four separate preferences panels have many choices and are covered in a separate section here: Preferences This section covers: General Application Preferences and Document Defaults, Font management functions, Color Management and Hyphenation Preferences

For further information about fonts and Scribus you can consult: this article about optimizing your desktop for Scribus. Red Hat 8.0 users are encouraged to review the Notes on Red Hat 8.0 for specifics on font handling with the new fontconfig system.


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