Scribus basics
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Despite its deceptively simple appearance, Scribus packs serious power. We can help you get started with this desktop publishing powerhouse.
Nowadays, word processors like LibreOffice Writer are powerful enough to be used when working with complex documents and authoring ready-to-publish books. This doesn't make dedicated desktop publishing applications obsolete, though. In fact, using software that is geared toward handling books and documents with complex layouts is a more efficient way of doing things.
On Linux, desktop publishing (DTP) is synonymous with Scribus, and deservedly so. This mature, stable, and open source application offers all the features and functionality you'd expect from a professional DTP tool. Scribus [1] is suited not just for producing printed materials, the PDF export functionality also makes it possible to generate documents and books in this popular format. This means that Scribus still remains relevant in a world dominated by ebooks in the EPUB format.
First Steps
If you use a relatively popular Linux distribution, chances are you'll find Scribus in the distro's official software repositories. Thus, you can install the application via the default package manager. On Debian and Ubuntu, deploying Scribus is a matter of running the apt-get install scribus command as root.
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