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3. The File Menus

Context Menus

Scribus uses many Right-Click context menus for object. Simply selecting an object and right clicking will bring up a context menu, which includes a great number of the menu options. The features below are based on the top level menus, but many of these choices are also available directly as a right click choice. When making adjustments within spin boxes, holding the Crtl-Shift key will make changes in the numerical value by tenths. This is especially helpful when adjusting kerning and other measurements which need fine adjustment.

3.1 File Menu

New

Closes any open File and brings up a dialog box in which you can set the dimensions of the new document. There are more than 25 options for pages sizes, including most DIN and US sizes. The defaults are set in Preferences panel.

Open

Closes any open file and brings up a file select box in which you can choose a document to be edited. The icon to the right is the for the "home" directory for Scribus documents, which can be selected in the Preferences panel.

Close

Closes the current document.

Save

Saves the current document to disk.

Save as

Saves the document under a new name.Scribus can, optionally, save files gzip compression with the "Compress File" check box. The file extension is .scd.gz

Get Text/Picture

Changes to Get Text if a text box is selected and allows to you to import pure ASCII text. Alternatively, you can simply drag and drop a text file from the desktop or from Konqueror when running KDE

Changes to Get Picture if an image frame is selected. You can load .TIFF, PNG, JPEG, EPS or XPM images. Scribus can also handle MNG,PMN,PBM,PGM files as well. For high quality printing for commercial reproduction, TIFF or EPS is highly recommended. Even if a preview is embedded in an EPS, Scribus will not display this.

When placing a EPS image, Scribus can handle transparency without problems, as well as recognizing DCS (Desktop Color Separations) comments for CMYK colors. Scribus will import the spot colors into the palette.

Save Text

Allows you to export the text of the selected text box to disk as pure ASCII text.

Save Page as EPS

Saves the current page as an EPS-File.

Save as PDF

Scribus has enhanced many PDF export filter functions. These options are explained in a two separate sections PDF Export Options and PDF/X-3 and Scribus which outlines the requirements for exporting ISO PDF/X-3 comforming PDF's

Save as SVG - Optional

Scribus (with a separate optional plug-in) can export SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files, which is an open standard file format, based on XML.

Document Info

Here you can add additional information about the document. Entering data here on a given file will also be transferred into the PDF headers file when exporting PDF from Scribus. The info also can be read from file > open if preview is enabled in the dialog box.

Document Setup

Allows you to change the dimensions of the document. The maximum size of a document is now over 100 x 100 inches or 3000 centimeters. Scribus supports facing pages for cross page images or text. Note, to get the standard set of gutter layout for the two pages select two columns before clicking OK.

Print

Prints the document. You can optionally create a postscript file by selecting file as printer. You can also use an external print command ex. XPP, or kprinter. This allows you to enable Scribus to use the gimp-printing module for the high quality ink jet prints from Scribus. Scribus will also remember the page setup from file to file when printing. Scribus also directly supports Gimp -Print drivers with CUPS, These high quality drivers are optimized for printing high resolution prints from ink-jet printers. The specific details are here: CUPS and Gimp-Print

Quit

Terminates the program.


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