TUTORIAL: How to Format Your Book With Scribus |Typesetting A Novel | Format Your Paperback for FREE

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In this video, I will show you how to set up Scribus to typeset your book. Typesetting, also known as book formatting, is one of the critical sets in preparing to self-publish your book. Scribus is free, open-source software. I have used it to typeset multiple books of my own and for my clients. It is a little clunky at first, but this step-by-step tutorial will show you exactly how to do this for yourself.
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How to typeset your paperback book in Scribus:
Video Start: 00:00 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Document Set Up: 6:01 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Master Page Set Up: 13:16 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Styling for Paragraphs & Characters (Including Drop Caps): 20:46 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Saving As A Template: 25:40 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Adding Text - First Pages Of Your Novel (Including Title, Copyright, Other Works, Table of Contents, and Dedication): 26:55 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Adding Page Numbers: 45:48 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
Print Settings: 55:37 • TUTORIAL: How to Forma...
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@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You can check out more of my step-by-step self-publishing tutorials here: ru-vid.com/group/PL5wG4jOiELp2PemS-UxRI0Jzb6gMu8Etl

@betterdays29 2 года назад

Hello before I watch your full video. Does your video include a tutorial on how to format an e-book through scribus?

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

@@betterdays29 No, print book only

@betterdays29 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thanks I almost watched the whole video. Wish you much blessings and success! :)

@TheEpicSpire 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams do you have an E-book Tutorial?

@seekerandroses 5 месяцев назад

what if double sided didn't pop up

@seydoggy.fishing Год назад

It's probably been said already, but you can link text boxes. So you can have long sections of content flow continuously from page to page without cutting and pasting.

@paulfigueiredo3168 3 года назад

FYI - you don't need to open the text editor for everything. You can do basic editing by docking the properties window to the side of the main window. You can save a LOT of time by dropping down the windows menu and docking the properties, layers, alignment and text properties to be always visible.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Good to know, thank you for the tip!

@fredberri7225 2 года назад

Paul, I downloaded version 1.538 & is very different from MK's. She was kind to answer my questions. Do you know of any tutorials for version 1.5.8? What version is MK using?

@russianbotfarm3036 Год назад

@@fredberri7225 Looked like 1.3.8

@kuldipsinghverma3819 3 года назад

With details and feelings. One of few wonderful videos, I ever saw. Thanks

@balderasu1148 2 года назад

Glad to have found you, dear. Thank you very much for your time and generosity for sharing your invaluable knowledge in such a comprehensive presentation. It means a lot to me and hopefully to millions others. I loved it! BRAVO!

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You are so welcome!

@al2642 3 года назад

Many thanks for this tutorial, madame. It's clear, complete and simple. Great work and extremely useful!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome! Glad the tutorial was helpful!

@bradleystevens9833 2 года назад

Wow this was exactly what I was looking for. More advanced than I am now, but I plan on referencing this as I grow. Thank you!

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You're welcome! Best of luck with your book

@kuldipsinghverma3819 3 года назад

So nicely explained, with details and feelings. One of few wonderful videos, I evers saw. Thanks

@heartlandauthor 3 года назад

I downloaded Scribus a couple of days ago to my Lenovo IdeaPad, so I thank you for uploading this video! I've subscribed to your channel.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Thank you for subscribing! I'm glad this video can help you 😊

@josephcillojr.7035 2 года назад

So, here's a new trick. I know you mentioned you did not like using the "Automatic Text Frames" option. But I just created a new document with this option for 150 pages and then used File->import->get text and the entire text came, flowing between the pages. This will give you all the text in linked text boxes on all the pages and save all the manual adding and linking pages. This is what I wanted to be able to do. I don't know how this works with importing styles, though, which the place option in other programs will do.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Very cool, thank you for sharing

@josephcillojr.7035 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams I see what you mean by it going back to the top when you edit text. It considers the whole thing on big block of text. I found this compromise approach on the web: "here's how i would import such extensive masses of text: when you set up the file adjust the page margins to fit the area for the text, tick the box for 'automatic text frames'. (scribus will create a text frame inside the margins on every document page. the frames are linked.) generate your file (with as many pages as you like…) unlink the frames where your first chapter begins set the cursor in to the first frame of the first chapter import this chapter unlink the chain of text frames after this chapter. follow with the second chapter in the next frame…" Doing things by chapters would be a good compromise. I saw a video on InDesign that suggested separate projects by chapter. It is a bummer that the formats don't come in. It would be nice to have a tool specifically for book formatting. I guess that's Vellum but only for the Mac...

@fredberri7225 2 года назад

MK, Awesome. Thank you. Your videos are the best. Unfortunately, I was following along and BAM! things changed. You explain it well and i appreciate what I did listen to & learned.

@Brandon-lz5xc 3 года назад

Thank you. Your content warrants advertising. Very detailed and informative.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Thank you, glad you found it helpful!

@matthewponte2782 2 года назад

Thanks for the tutorial, it was very useful and I will definitely implement some of the things you showed. I noticed that you were manually cutting the overflow from one textbox into the next text box around the 50min mark. It is possible to link text boxes so that the overflow from one automatically goes into the next one (then link a third, fourth, so on). I saw it in another tutorial that I watched. If you link your text boxes, you should be able to copy and paste your whole chapter at once without manually editing each page's text box. Which I think would save you a large chunk of time. The icon for linking text boxes is next to the Story Editor icon. Or keyboard shortcut "n".

@sharkskinboy 2 года назад

I was wondering the same thing exactly, I would imagine that such a function must exist. Otherwise, can you imagine having to add a missing word on Page 1? You would have to reformat the whole book lol.

@miguelthedrawtist 3 года назад

This is a great tutorial. Thank you so much!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@easypsc 3 года назад

Thank you dear friend . It helps me to make a book. Thank you very much

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome! I'm glad this tutorial helped.

@NessieGracia20 Год назад

You just saved my life! Thank you so much!!

@1MKWilliams Год назад

You're welcome!

@EnzoSnyman 8 дней назад

My ocd going in overdrive with the formatting tweaking in this video 😆 but an excellent tutorial overall. Learnt a lot from this video and it's definitely going to remain on my saved videos. Feeling like I'm going to reference certain TSs a lot

@1MKWilliams 8 дней назад

Happy I can help

@patrickmclaughlin6013 Год назад

nice scribus intro Thank You one good thing about scribus, you own your file and it's not in some cryptic proprietary format that only a commercial product can read and edit

@1MKWilliams Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@josephcillojr.7035 2 года назад

You can link the text boxes from page to page so the text flows between them and you don't have to manually figure out the break points on each page. 1) select the page with too much text. 2) go to item->Link text 3) click the text box with too much text and drag an arrow the text box on the next page. This trick should make things much easier and making edits much easier. The text will flow between the text boxes with any changes you make.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Thank you for the tip!

@DarrenNoFun 2 года назад

I was wondering about this. Seemed very impractical to be copying and pasting a book over page by page (or more likely, part of page by part of page).

@josephcillojr.7035 2 года назад

@Darren D. MacDonald I would recommend doing this by chapter With very long sections of text editing becomes tricky

@miezepups15 2 года назад

You can also just go to File-> Import (or Place, I'm not quite sure) and just have it import your whole text, already split into pages. Though I admire your mental strength to do it by hand. I would have crumpled and died after only fivxe pages or so...

@ramonbril 3 года назад

Perfect teachings. Thank you.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@ilmudunia3142 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the tutorial. It really helpful. Very good video.

@1MKWilliams 7 месяцев назад

You're welcome!

@ferozalimeghani2561 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this awesome informative video for senior authors like me.

@1MKWilliams 8 месяцев назад

Happy to help!

@Ihavetoreturnsomevideotapes 3 года назад

Thanks you so much , i had a assignment due this week ,Thanks to you I completed it

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome

@authorEE_ESE 3 года назад

This is so helpful, thank you!! :D

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@thediariesdiaries 4 месяца назад

A brilliant brilliant tutorial and totally what we are now going off of as we begin - as totally the noobiest of the noobies - to format then print the first of what are already many books waiting to be (self) published.

@1MKWilliams 4 месяца назад

Happy I could help!

@toasted_heretic 2 года назад

What an excellent video. Thank you so much.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@sipius22 3 года назад

Excellent Video!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Thank you!

@mtm7031 2 года назад

Very helpful video thank you so much for sharing you are awesome

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You are welcome

@allil87 2 года назад

Thank you!!

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@TheEpicSpire 2 года назад

thank you for this tutorial.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@juacimm 2 года назад

you are so amazing, jesus christ, thank you so much for demystifying this stuff

@AlexanderVar 3 года назад

I loved it.. Great job

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Thank you!

@heyalicia2551 Год назад

I just downloaded Scribus and am very thankful for your efforts on this video! Just checked though and found that when you have overflow text you can click on that little x to flow text to a new text frame. Like in InDesign.

@1MKWilliams Год назад

Thank you!

@DonVitoHLong 3 года назад

Peace and Blessings to you and yours M.K. Williams on this special occasion and time you are in. Once ready I would be honored to be assisted by you. Blessings

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Thank you so much! Happy to help!

@DonVitoHLong 3 года назад

M.K. Williams you’re welcome and appreciated!

@nathanwaddell6640 3 года назад

So helpful, thank you!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@nathanwaddell6640 3 года назад

Finished everything but the cover today- this tutorial was so helpful. Thanks again. I wonder if those automatic text frames would work better for me - surely there's a better way than to copy and paste each page? I feel like there should be. Next time I'll try it!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Yes, another viewer on this video posted some tips about the text boxes as well, that might help!

@JuanRomanL Год назад

Thanks!

@1MKWilliams Год назад

Thank you so much 🥰

@alrazeeni3351 2 года назад

Thank you.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@prettyclassyflyy 3 года назад

Thank you!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@ejumoh1791 3 года назад

Life Saver

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Happy to help!

@yohangunathunga552 3 года назад

Thank you soo much

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@RonireneArt 3 года назад

Thank you for this tutorial! Very helpful with me getting started with Scribis. I tried to learn the program myself since I just need it for a short story to insert into something else but it just wasn’t working out and ugly lol

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

I'm glad this tutorial helped you. Best of luck getting your short story out!!

@pixelotix 3 года назад

Scribus probably isn't the right tool for a short story. Libre Office Writer or AbiWord might be. Scribus is much more powerful if you need to layout mutiple pages differently, or have lots of images and captions.

@patrickgarcia4579 2 года назад

Thank you

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

You're welcome

@normhill3812 3 года назад

Super tutorials. Very understandable. I am not sure how to import my files from the desktop (JPG Graphic Novel pages) into Scribus. Seems simple but I didn't figure it out.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Norm, I'm glad you found this video helpful. Regarding importing images, you first need to add the image frame on the page where you would like the image to display. Once you had the frame on the page and it is selected you can go to file > import > get image and you will see options to import images that are on your local computer. Best of luck!

@Mxsmanic 3 года назад

Ghostscript is only needed if you want to use the Scribus print preview function or if you are using EPS images that have to be rendered, both of which you’re apparently don’t use, so the error ,message can be ignored.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Good to know, thank you for clarifying!

@Rubypollak-io2qw 3 месяца назад

Hey I’m really glad I found your page it is exactly what I need to help me through the process. I was wondering if you would be able to help me with something ( I remember you said that you can take on jobs I’m not sure which Video) so I would really appreciate if you can respond. Thank you so much and I appreciate all the work you do, really. Thank you.

@1MKWilliams 3 месяца назад

I'm actually no longer taking on clients at the moment. If you need help with formatting I can recommend: 100Covers: 100covers.com/?ref=49

@dsulvadarius 2 года назад

Thumbs up for pronouncing Scribus correctly.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Haha! Thank you!

7 месяцев назад

Thanks M.K¡¡

@c.c.8588 3 года назад

Thank you very much for this excellent video, M.K. Williams. I'm a beginner and you helped me a lot. Do you know if there's any way to import footnotes (not endnotes) from a Word/LibreOffice document? It'd be rather tedious to move them one by one if they are many.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

That's a great question! I actually have not had to tackle footnotes in Scribus to date, sorry. But a lot of really savvy Scribus users have commented on this video, maybe they can help. Best of luck!

@c.c.8588 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Okay, thank you! It's lovely that you respond to comments and incite conversation.

@bookformatting 3 года назад

I think you can import some of the styles like font size, bold, italics on newer versions. Probably on the same version you're using. I use 1.4.8. I am little worried about updating the software and I am not fully into Scribus yet. The video was very helpful. Thank you :)

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Good to know about importing more styles, there is so much to learn about this program and I know I've only scratched the surface. I'm glad you found this video helpful!

@GeorgyMM 2 года назад

Thank you for the tutorial just a suggestion, make the story editor window a little bigger and you can change the styles all at once by wrapping the whole paragraph. I was feeling frustrated😀 due to this and had to find this out.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Thanks for the tip

@GeorgyMM 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams thank you for introducing me to scribus, moved from indesign to scribus. Loving it.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

@@GeorgyMM That's awesome!!

@grahambull846 2 года назад

Thanks for this video.I'm a little envious of your ability to move around the text so well. Do you think I would be able to have at he end endnotes, then References, then Index, then About the author using Scribus as I am unable to do this on KGP templates or Kindle Create?

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Hi Graham, Yes you can add each of those sections to your book with Scribus.

@grahambull846 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thanks. I think I'll try it.

@pratyushbhattacharjya1296 2 года назад

Can anyone suggest how to add equations in the text editor after i directly copy it from a docx or pdf document... Without using Latex

@kevinmaloncon4802 2 месяца назад

Dear M.K., I know you mentioned you are very busy with your baby so I apologize in advance for distributing you on Mother’s day. I was watching your tutorial on how to format your book with Scribus and noticed you had three additional document layouts that my new version of Scribus does not contain. The one I am interested in is the double sided, is that something you’re willing to share, have for sale, or possibly direct to download? I have searched the internet for something similar but have not had any luck finding a similar template. I know you mentioned something at the beginning about using a word document but could not make out the rest of what you where of where I could go to find it. In addition, I am also not to tech savvy at this moment when it comes to uploading templates on Scribus but I will be learning. I just realized I haven’t read any of the comments below yet, before writing all this, where I might find an answer but thank you for any advice or direction you might share. Happy Mother’s Day. Kevin

@1MKWilliams 2 месяца назад

Sorry to hear that. Not sure what their new versions have or don't have. Best of luck

@russianbotfarm3036 Год назад

I haven’t tried it yet, but, surely you don’t need to fill and flow the text page-by-page. Hopefully you can link the text frames and do all that once per chapter.

@corkandi 3 года назад

Hi. Very informative video thanks! I'm using Scribus 1.5.6.1 (It doesn't have the toolbar at the top of the page, and I don't know how to add it.) Any ideas?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hmmm there is a really helpful forum for Scribus users that really helped me out when I was first using the program. There may already be a thread with the answer for you: forums.scribus.net/. Best of luck!

@cliffhamrickwrites2378 2 года назад

I broke down and got Vellum. Never looked back.

@elisedonoghue5690 3 года назад

Very helpful video! How do I flatten my pdf document as it keeps getting rejected when I upload it to the printing website! (I am creating a planner)

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hmmm, I'm not sure about flattening it persay, however when I go to export the document to PDF, I click over to the "color" tab and select "printer" as the quality and it has always worked for me to have it accepted for printing. I'm not a graphic design expert, but thankfully many more savvy people than me have been commenting on this video and they may be able to confirm or correct me.

@atsz. 3 года назад

This is cool, but I'm a bit OCD and can't just eyeball things the way you do. Is there a way to make text boxes snapped to a grid?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Yes, there are grid lines at the top to guide you.

@RosssRoyce 2 года назад

Thanks so much! Do you know a remedy for Scribus producing a 2Gb PDF file for a 132 pages book with black and white drawings? Something inside tells me that this size is not justified, not even with higher resolution images…

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Hi, I'm not sure. Have you tried the scribus forums?

@RosssRoyce 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams thanks for the idea, I will! By the way, I’m curious would a typical PDF you may upload to KDP be of many a Mb s?

@user-gw5zr4ng9q Год назад

Thank you very much. Big help. Question: is it friendly for RTL texts? Hebrew Arabic? Should I set "left page"? This is the answer?

@1MKWilliams Год назад

Yes, you can also do the RTL texts, when you upload to publish you will select that option as well

@user-gw5zr4ng9q Год назад

@@1MKWilliams I hope you will find time to help. I want to import ms doc file with 300 pages. I prepared 300 pages. 1) do I need to insert 300 text frames? One text frame for each page, manually? 2) when I import, what I should do so my file will fill all the frames and pages? I hope you help me

@furripupau 2 года назад

I swear I watched the page number bit 500 times before I realized I had to click on the check symbol.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Sorry about that! Glad you found it

@jbingham711 10 дней назад

Can you add text over an image wit Scribus. For example I have a full page image in the background on the page before a chapter beginning and I want to add a quote on top of it.

@1MKWilliams 10 дней назад

I have not tried this but I believe you should be able to have a text box over the image box

@RoslynHillLatchHookCrochet 3 года назад

I self published my kids book a couple of years ago. I want to update it. When uploading the pdf the images were not uploading to Scribus. Please help!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Roslyn, congratulations on your book. I have not done many images in the books I've formatted in Scribus. A few others who have commented on this video have more experience with image-heavy books. Perhaps they can help troubleshoot.

@accentontheoff 6 месяцев назад

Hello, the current version of Scribus (Version 1.6.0) only offers Single and Facing pages as Layouts. Is the latter the same as Double sided. There is also no 3 fold or 4 fold either - I guess it's all in the Templates right? Thanks!

@1MKWilliams 6 месяцев назад

Interesting, when you go to export you need them to be exported as single pages

@accentontheoff 6 месяцев назад

Sure. @@1MKWilliams

@Robert19637 2 года назад

Hi M. My name is Robert and I am from Norway. I want to make a booklet, and in the booklet there should be a table of contents and that's fine. The problem is that I can not make under lying points with indentation. I hope you understand what I mean. I also hope you can help me with this problem. I have searched online but without success. Hoping for a positive answer. Sincerely, Robert.

@riseabovepublishing 3 года назад

So, I will be purchasing my ISBNs soon and was wondering about the bar codes that Bowker also sells. Should I get a bar code for my book as well? How necessary is it? And, if I do buy one, who puts the barcode on the book, the book cover designer or the publishing platform (KDP, B&N Press, etc...)?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Josie, great questions. Whether you purchase a barcode or not will really depend on your strategy. Barcodes are only needed for printed books (so if you do ebook only no need to purchase). You'll also need to decide if you will try to get the book into brick and mortar retailers. If that is you plan you'll want to purchase a barcode with the price listed and have the cover designer include it for you. If you don't plan to get the book into stores then you can go with the free no price listed barcode provided by KDP or Ingram Spark. I have a video that goes into more detail on the topic as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zfbxXp4lSg4.html best of luck!

@riseabovepublishing 3 года назад

MK Williams Thank you so much for providing that insight. I am new to this whole self-publishing world and need all the help that I can get. I highly appreciate your videos as well, I have been watching them like crazy, lol.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

So glad I can help! Let me know if you have any specific questions for your book. I also do 1 on 1 consulting sessions to help first time authors navigate all those tiny decisions they need to make for the book. mailchi.mp/6631be0c687a/selfpublishingservices

@AnnPhilipp 6 месяцев назад

When you export to pdf, can you create this file as a single-page format (1-up per page)? Looks like that's what Lightning Source wants. Thanks

@1MKWilliams 6 месяцев назад

Yes that is in the export settings, that is how I do mine every time

@AnnPhilipp 6 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@Brandon-lz5xc 3 года назад

Question Ms. Williams. When the text goes over the limit, the last line runs to the end of the page ( I prefer that). However, when I delete the text that doesn't fit, Scribus condenses the last line. If I leave the text box with the extra text that doesn't show, is that a problem? Will Ingramspark care about this, or does it just have to have the proper dimensions and look good in the exported PDF format? Thank you so much for everything!

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

If you leave the extra text you get that red box at the end. I add a few spaces to get it to even out exactly so the text reaches the edge, but there is no red box. Best of luck!

@Brandon-lz5xc 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Awesome! Thank you.

@fredberri7225 2 года назад

MK thank you again for your tutorials. I have downloaded Scribus version 1.5.8 and is Soooooo different than yours. Do you know anywhere there are tutorials for this version? I've exhausted my search.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Hi Fred, No, I'm not familiar with that version or any tutorials for it. If I find any I will let you know.

@easypsc 3 года назад

How can i give hyperlink in this scribus

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hello, I use scribus for print formatting, so no hyperlinks in the document.

@easypsc 3 года назад

@anne-mariejane4595 2 месяца назад

Could I use this software to print off the pages to make handmade perfect bound photography books?

@1MKWilliams 2 месяца назад

I don't see why not

@anne-mariejane4595 2 месяца назад

@1MKWilliams thank you for replying.

@HrafnNordhri 3 года назад

Just started watching this and I didn't want to forget. when you are moving text boxes or whatever element into place. You can go to the Page option on the menu and select "snap to grid" and this will save you some fiddling. :D Also, rather than copy and pasting your text, why not right click the text box in Scribus and select "get text" then select your word document? at the 50 minute mark, why not link the text boxes so that the text flows?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Raven, All excellent points and I'm glad you posted those here for others to see. The very first time I used Scribus I used an autopopulate function but did it wrong and it was a nightmare so I do it the "manual" way now. It takes longer but I haven't cussed at my computer lol

@HrafnNordhri 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams oh my.. those auto text boxes can really mess things up. I used your tutorial to create myself a template. I found that if I write in LiberOffice, and then in Scribus click my text box and choose "get text" it keeps much of the formatting. Then you can fancy it up in Scribus or remove parts and such. That said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with how you demonstrated. always more than one way to do anything. :) I hope you consider doing more videos with Scribus and writing in general. I am going to check out the rest of your channel. Ne Sub here for sure.

@ArmageddonAfterparty 2 года назад

Hi, I added a few pages and chose 'Apply Master Page' to all of them, which worked well, but now I can't access them in the same way as the others, i.e. I can not write on them or paste text into them. Is there a way to fix this ? Thank you.

@ArmageddonAfterparty 2 года назад

I noticed that adding a text frame to one of the new pages solved my immediate problem, but I wish there'd be a more automated way to fix this.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Hi George, Glad you found a fix. You can create a master page that has a text frame in it already. Best of luck!

@ArmageddonAfterparty 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thank you, I'll start over.

@cindyhorrellramsey2845 3 года назад

Sometimes I can complete the justification of the last line on the page and sometimes I have to use the text editor box. Not sure the difference. And occasionally it will give me the little box with the X in it indicating that something more is there. If I can see the whole last word within the margins and no other lines are below it, will it mess anything up to just go ahead and leave it even though the X box is there? It's either that or leave the spaces at the end of the word so it's not justified. Not sure why it works on some pages and not on others.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

The red x means that there is an extra blank line below, ideally you want all of those cleared out.

@mikeinthemovies2719 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams sometimes the x won't go away even if i do the little space thing. so i just leave, is that ok .

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

@@mikeinthemovies2719 hmm check that page when you export to PDF, if the X is still there you may need to go back in and remove a few spaces so it disappears.

@fredberri7225 2 года назад

M.K. thank you for this video tutorial. Thus far you are the best and so is Scribus. I've tried a few others I returned for refunds. They were too convoluted. This is a multiple time trying with little frustration. You are doing a great job. Maybe you can answer a few things: 1) I can't make the program larger to see better. 2) I can't go back ion the program because I made an error following you. 3) sometimes you click and I can't see where. 4) I reached interring my title page but that's the only page I have on the screen vs your multiple pages on your screen. I really need to have this program work for me. Can you help? fred.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Hi Fred, it would be tough to troubleshoot without looking at your screen. There are very active scribus support message boards that may be more helpful in that regard. Best of luck!

@fredberri7225 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thank you, M.K. for taking the time to reply. I guess I will have to search Where I would I find such Scribus support message boards?

@93SFBG 3 года назад

Have you found a way to adjust the space the program puts in between lines of text? Seems like its double spacing and I want it tighter than that.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

That should be under the settings when you are going in and adjusting character and paragraph master settings.

@93SFBG 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams A user on the Scribus forums turned me on to this resource: write.flossmanuals.net/scribus/_draft/_v/1.0/introduction/ You can create your text frames and link them one to the other so your overflow automatically flows onto the next page without all the cutting and pasting you're doing in the video, just like InDesign works. FYI.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

@@93SFBG YAAASSS!!! Win!! Definitely going to check this out, thank you!

@93SFBG 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams You're welcome. Thanks for the video. Now you need to make a new one about linking text frames. Will save a lot of time over your current method.

@escapematrixenterprisejacq7810 Месяц назад

So do you have to keep changing the garamond font each time you add in new pages? or is there a way to set the font for all pages

@1MKWilliams Месяц назад

Yes, I did eventually discover a better way to do it via templates. But yeah, it was a miserable trial and error

@escapematrixenterprisejacq7810 Месяц назад

@@1MKWilliams I goofed! Its giving me the masterpage setup for the right but not the left! I set it up the way you did with both...strange. No page numbers on the left either. Now I dont know how to fix it

@cindyhorrellramsey2845 3 года назад

I have another question... IngramSpark talks about rejection if the fonts are not embedded in the PDF. Is there an extra step to do that or will the fonts be embedded when you export the PDF as you explained?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Cindy, I have never had an issue with the fonts and submitting to IngramSpark while I have used Scribus to format. I also stick with standard fonts (Garamond, Arial, Times New Roman, etc.)

@cindyhorrellramsey2845 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thank you! Submitting mine today with fingers crossed.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

@@cindyhorrellramsey2845 🤞🤞🤞

@93SFBG 3 года назад

Got a question: wondering why my Scribus won't do insert page number. When I do the drop down menu, the insert character command where page number is found is greyed out. I've reinstalled. Both my Linux version and my Windows version are doing this. I've got Ghostscript. Any ideas?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hmmm I haven't run into that issue, I don't have Ghostscript though so perhaps that is the key difference.

@93SFBG 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Hum. How are you exporting your pdf without Ghostscript?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

@@93SFBG file - export - export as pdf. Haven't had any issues.

@93SFBG 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Hey, I found I can insert the page number using the Text Editor window. It works from there but not on the main ribbon menu. But thanks for your great video and prompt replies.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

@@93SFBG Excellent!! Glad you found a solution!

@WILL_Labscom 3 года назад

Hi M.K, in which video have you show how to build Table of Content with Scribus?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

I think I may have forgotten to include it in this video (it was already so long). What I do is keep a pad of paper next to me as I work in Scribus and write down the page number of each new chapter. Once the formatting is complete I go back to the front of the book and add the chapter titles and the page numbers. I don't use any automatic features for this in Scribus.

@LifeAccordingtoMaria Год назад

@@1MKWilliams InDesign has a TOC Generator based on Heading styles and will automatically generate the TOC along with it's corresponding page numbers. I usually create extremely large documents for my job. Usually use FrameMaker or InDesign and they both generate autotically. So I am guessing Scribus can do the same. I will need to find how to do this. Doing the notepad method would be too much work for me especially when others tend to keep adding last minute changes and pages can shift.

@Momochan2013 3 года назад

I want to ask. How to make cover book that has different size in width. Should i make it separately or in one worksheet?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Yes, the cover file should be separate from the interior file. Best of luck with your book!

@Momochan2013 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams ah thank you so much for your reply

@allil87 2 года назад

Do you know what format is best for amazon publishing? thank you.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

Hi Julia, I'm not sure of your question. Do you mean the file type needed for print or eBook publishing?

@allil87 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams the file type for physical book publishing ☺️

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

@@allil87 You would need to have a print-ready PDF for that.

@TheEpicSpire 2 года назад

would it be easier to make the First Line, No Indent the default? it seems like you spend more time switching it to that. it would be rare for the first line of a page to be a new indent and when you do, then switching that one would be best? maybe, idk.

@1MKWilliams 2 года назад

I could, that could be a potential solution.

@TheEpicSpire 2 года назад

@@1MKWilliams after actually pasting a few pages into the program, i have noticed that your method is actually better lol.

@rachaelc4762 Год назад

hmm there is no "double sided" option for me. I have version 1.5.8 for mac

@RajanFinland 3 года назад

Is it possible also to do book cover on Scribus? The problem seems to be the spine, how to add it?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Rajan, I have never used Scribus to do any type of cover design so I'm not sure about that possibility. I use Photoshop for my cover designs.

@RajanFinland 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thanks for answering, I did paperback covers now with Scribus (picture and text), then exported it as png picture (it gave 2 pictures because there were 2 pages, the front and back cover) with 300 pi resolution, and added different background colour to it on Gimp. They said at printhouse, that they can easily do the spine, I just need to say what text to put on the spine.

@t0dd000 3 месяца назад

Inkscape would be better for cover design. Photoshop, GIMP, and Scribus are really not the right tools for covers. Especially if you use a lot of text. Inkscape is also free and really well designed.

@lukon100 Год назад

Oh no. I want to make an index. Looks like Scribus can't do that. Anyone know a low cost formatter with an index building feature?

@CharliefromAussieland 2 года назад

Excellent explanation. I love your tutorials. However, the only HUGE issue about Scribus are the too tiny icons on the toolbar. That's critical. New versions came up, some icons changed their design, but the developers failed to the make icons larger, or to add an option to increase them. So, as new tutorials are coming up (like yours), those way too tiny icons are VERY confusing with older versions on previous tutorials for new learners. I hope this is fixed ASAP, because it is not a small issue, (the icons are small and problematic), particularly with people like me, despite the fact that I wear good glasses. Thank you.

@Rubypollak-io2qw 3 месяца назад

How can I reach out to yiy

@samanthahoney5090 3 года назад

If you link the pages the text will automaticly go over to the next page... So you don't need to erase and copy over to the next page.

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Thank you for the tip! I'll try that next time ☺️

@jienmacaraeg-guimare9737 3 года назад

How to link pages?

@samanthahoney5090 3 года назад

@@jienmacaraeg-guimare9737 just watch a video on youtube or google how to link pages in Scribus. Someone somewhere already put the answer out there.

@LesterSmith 3 года назад

@@jienmacaraeg-guimare9737 1. Click anywhere in the overflowing text box. 2. Click "Item" on the menu bar. 3. Select "Link Text Frames"; an icon will appear that looks like two boxes. 4. Click that icon in the text box you want to flow to. Voila! (I'm using Scribus 1.4.8, the latest stable version.)

@cindyhorrellramsey2845 3 года назад

How do you close the gap at the end of the page when the sentence is not all the way to the right? I've watched the video over and over but can't figure out what you're doing there. My little hand won't click like yours does :-)

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Hi Cindy, When the text is right justified I there is a hard stop at the end of one page because the paragraph continues onto the next page I click on the text box (make sure it is highlighted with the red guides) and then I move my cursor to the end of the last work. I use the space bar to add to that line until it auto-adjusts. Usually this is only a few clicks over. If this doesn't work, go into the text editor box and add the spaces there, but then you will need to save and go back and make sure it added enough to the line. I hope this helps, best of luck with your book!

@cindyhorrellramsey2845 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Had to do it in the text editor box, but it worked. Thank you!

@kreuzbergediting 5 месяцев назад

Why is there no one on the internet who describes how to export a bookCOVER properly with all the bleed trim stuff?

@dthoughts1666 3 года назад

Can i make a magazine in scribus software}?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

I believe so. I haven't tried it but that is one of the preset options. Best of luck with your magazine!

@HrafnNordhri 3 года назад

Yes you can, in fact on the scribus website they have information about a company that does just that.

@dthoughts1666 3 года назад

Any other open source software in ubuntu for making magazine? I know indesign software is verrygood... But icant get in ubuntu. Any other free software in ubuntu?

@dthoughts1666 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thankyou

@HrafnNordhri 3 года назад

@@dthoughts1666 what's wrong with Scribus?

@surajsawant.2220 Год назад

MS Word is better if you just want format a book and not have more pictures & fancy design. For just simple formating purpose MS-word is good & for extensive design work, Adobe indesign & scribus is good option.

@henrykg Год назад

I also prefer LibreOffice for books I print (my hobby is bookbinding) . Scribus is better for publications with many text and image frames. I use Scribus for template/background pages for notebooks.

@epsinurwijayadi7332 3 года назад

I have already made 110 pages of a free e-book. How do I, make TOC/bookmarks/outline in PDF?

@1MKWilliams 3 года назад

Wow congrats on your progress. Are you creating this eBook as a PDF in Scribus or to be a ePub file that can be read on eReader apps like Kindle/Book/Kobo? If a PDF, I would take a note of each section/chapter page (I usually maintain a list as I am formatting and include that page at the beginning). If you are formatting for ePub then you will link section/chapter titles to a table of contents page with jump links for readers to easily go back to.

@epsinurwijayadi7332 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Thank you for the reply. I finally found the solution. It turn out that scribus has this menu * is-annotation * is-bookmarks. So my problem is solved. I will make a scribus tutorial later after the book done.

@epsinurwijayadi7332 3 года назад

I will make a scribus tutorial later after the book done. So far I have made Sozi tuutorial, and Impress tutorial. I have four blogs. They consists of about 600 articles. I use this blog to help people in telegram group learning web development, linux, and programming language as well. epsi-rns.gitlab.io/pages/archives/ The issue is, some young local people here, they cannot read english, and does not have a steady internt connection. So I decide to make book in local language.

@epsinurwijayadi7332 3 года назад

@@1MKWilliams Export to PDF. Thank you for reply.

@Extreme-Graphics 3 года назад

Thank you SO MUCH! You are a Very Good teacher! Very Thorough and Informative! I Subscribed! One question though: If I do my book (Like you show) in Scribus as a double-sided (For a print book), and then decide that I also want to make it available as an eBook, how do I go about doing that? Will you marry me? :-) and if you can't do that, will you be my girlfriend? And if you can't do that....will you at least answer my question I posted here? :-) Thanks.

@jeanHERMAN Год назад

the sound is very bad

@eduglez5832 Год назад

Idk. It looks not useful at all (at least in the way you are using it). I started to learn this software because I thought some of the actions you are doing could be automated someway.