One of the best places to begin looking for free templates is the. Here you can find templates useful for political brochures, calendars, programs, invitations, bulletins, newsletters and more. The templates are organized by tabs, so you can browse alphabetically, by highest rated templates or by the ones that are most frequently downloaded. If you wish, you can also search by keyword here. Before you leave the Scribus community, be sure to check out the scripts and fonts that are available at the site.
Oak Tree You can find some exquisitely modern Scribus templates. Here the finer details of Scribus philosophy are discussed as two modern templates are introduced to the design world. The first one, the Swiss Modern Presentation template uses open source type faces and embodies all the aspects of Swiss appeal. Multiple pages are included in the template package, offering users a choice of two or three column layouts. A variety of paragraph styles are also included with the template to give you incredible flexibility with your final product.
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The development branch is currently 1.5.x. It’s mainly being released for people who want to help us testing and improving Scribus, so the next stable series (1.6.x) will work well. However, as of version 1.5.1, we consider the development branch reasonably stable, so it can be used for serious work by users who accept that not all new features are already working perfectly. Features already available in the officially stable version will work much better in 1.5.1+, though. It is also possible to install 1.4.x and 1.5.x side by side, so you can work with one version and play with the other.
If you are self-publishing, one of your tasks is to design the interior of your book. You can use your word processor, but that often leads to a shoddy job (see ). Is an open-source desktop publishing program that you can use for your book interior design. In this post, I’m going to provide some Scribus files that you can use as templates to develop your book interior design. Instructions included.
Scribus You will, of course, need, which is available for a number of platforms. As a believer in open-source software, I’m using Linux (, to be exact). If you are new to Scribus, be warned: Scribus has a moderately steep learning curve. (Not as steep, however, as Adobe InDesign.) This is why you want to start with a template to work with as you learn the ins and outs of the program.
The Templates I’ve made three templates: one for the front matter of your book, one for the book chapters, and one which is the front matter and beginning of the soon-to-be-best-selling novel “Lollipop” by Volomire Nobakeoff. The templates are for a 9 in x 6 in page size book and are available in the Downloads section below. As examples, I made from Lollipop.sla and from the basic novel templates. I provide everything you need to make the files except the fonts.
The Fonts The templates use only two fonts; download them here: and. Instead of these fonts, you can use any fonts on your system. In order to use different fonts, you will have to edit the Scribus styles. Work Flow Scribus slows down with large files. I once tried to work with a 68,000 word novel and it was unusable. The best way to use Scribus is to make your front matter and individual chapters as single files then put them together later with a separate program.
I used pdftk in Linux but there are programs for Windows and the Mac that will do the same thing. Below, I provide a file called HowtoUsetheTemplates.pdf which describes the making of from the basic novel templates.
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An advantage to this method is it is easy to find a mistake that you know is in, for instance, chapter 3 and fix it. Another is that if you make a horrible mistake and completely mess up, you have only destroyed one chapter an not the whole book. One of the drawbacks to this method is that changing anything in your book that affects the whole book, such as margins, fonts, location of headers, or page size requires you edit all the files. So carefully consider the look and feel of your book before you start final production.
I make a bunch of separate front matter and chapter files and print them out to see how they look. When I’ve got the look I want, I start making the final book.
Downloads – (896 kB) – This zip file unzips to a folder containing everything below. (896.5 kB) – (86.8 kB) – The Scribus file for the beginning of “Lollipop” by Volomire Nobakeoff. – (238.4 kB) – The PDF file from Lollipop.sla. – (60.2 kB) – The Scribus file for the front matter of your book.
This is a text file. It may open directly in your browser. Just “Save Page as” – it will have the extension.sla and it will work fine. – (78.2 kB) – The Scribus file for the book chapters. Opens as a text file.
“Save Page as”. – (1.3 kB) – This file contains information about page size, margins, fonts, styles, and more. A big help if you are trying to learn Scribus. – (43.4 kB) – The instructions for how to use the basic novel templates. Required reading. I use the example of making MobyDick.pdf from the basic novel templates and the Moby Dick text.
– (52.4 kB) – The text of the first three chapters of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. – (758.8 kB) – The PDF file resulting from the HowToUsetheTemplates.pdf instructions. Update This posted was updated on 5/23/16.
The first paragraph of chapter 1 in “Lollipop” and the first paragraph in chapter 3 of “Moby Dick” were formatted as “paragraph indent”. This is, of course, wrong: the first paragraph of the chapter should be “paragraph no indent”. This has been corrected in all files. A third font, Alegreya, slipped into the templates as the page number font. This has been changed to EB Garamond.
Also one of the page numbers was formatted as italic. This has been changed to normal.
I have a question. In InDesign, you can sync up all of the individual chapter files (if you decide to make each chapter different files) and if you add or subtract a page from that file, the entire collection of files updates its page numbers to reflect the change. There is also a master template(s) from which one can assign to each page.
The advantage of this is that when make a change there, it automatically updates all of the files using that master template. Lastly, one of the reasons why I am searching for alternative software is because InDesign does not allow footnotes with tables, which is critical for academic writing. So how does Scribus handle each of these issues provided above? I appreciate your time and look forward to your reply.
In Scribus, you can put all the chapter together and get the advantages you mention. However, with all the Scribus versions I’ve used, the programs gets very, very slow. So slow as to be unusable.
For my book-length projects, I’ve broken the chapters down into separate files, as I indicate in my post. This means that small changes, like repositioning the running heads are a pain.
The Scribus people know it is slow with book-length files. I would advise using Scribus only for your final production. It is likely a bad idea to use it for writing or much editing. I have not tried to use tables in footnotes. The table function in the version I’m using, 1.4.6, is kludgey. The scribus wiki has an announcement about the improved table handling in Scribus 1.6.
I wish you luck. If you are writing academic papers or a dissertation, you might try Latex.
I have used Latex for my document preparation for years. I think Scribus is better for book projects and magazine-style layouts, but Latex works well for documents.
You can have Custom Trim sizes (since the dimensions you mentioned are not a Standard Trim size), but be aware that your comic will not be eligible for EDC. You also won't find Word templates for Custom Sizes through CS, but you don't want to use Word for a comic book anyway.
If your pages are complete, just assemble them in a PDF program like Adobe Acrobat Pro, or Preview (Mac). Or use InDesign or Scribus (free) to layout your book pages. Just create the document size to match the trim plus bleed (0.125') on the three outer edges and insert your comic pages as images.
The key issue comic book publishers come across when preparing their book for printing is 'live elements' in the margins. This is a crucial thing to fix, because CS will not be able to print the book until the issue is corrected.
They might attempt to resize your pages to fix the margin problems, but then your pages will be the wrong size and not have enough bleed, so then that error will need to be fixed. I hope this hasn't scared you off. If you can tell us what software you plan to use, we might be able to help with building a custom template. Or let us know which other PODs you've used. You might find you can just resubmit the same PDF you used previously.
Michelle - - editing, cover design and book formatting services to help you on your publishing journey. Comixpress is out of business. Ka-Blam can print 7x10 books. I'd strongly urge going with 7x10 if you haven't done the art already. I was very stubborn about proper comics size.
Ka-Blam's size (and Lulu's) are not really proper comics size either. The officially correct size is 170mmx260mm, which everybody rounds anyway and every printer rounds differently.
At a standard comic size, you will find your printer options, format, and distribution limited. I would strongly encourage being able to change printers or use multiple printers. Comixpress went under. Your options could always change in the future.
It's also hard to resize full bleed art that is done. If that's the case, go custom. But I've found a number of folks IN COMICS who don't know that 7x10 isn't the size.
Mark Waid, who has been an editor, writer, and publisher, refers to comics as 7x10 books. It's only 3% different width relative to height. Ka-Blam has some of the nicest looking printing in the business. In order, the quality for color is: LS/IngramSpark Standard Color (which is actually pretty acceptable but black tones are gray/noisy), CreateSpace (which is a nice product), LS/IngramSpark Premium Color (which is gorgeous but expensive - the paper is what stands out for me), Ka-Blam (the paper is a notch below Ingram Premium but the paper coating is gorgeous and the black ink shimmers, giving artwork texture).
In terms of coverstock: Ka-Blam has the worst/flimsiest stock even for trades but the richest colors. CS is good but the lamination peels. Ingram has the best covers but the colors are the least vibrant Ingram will only do standard sizes like 7x10 and is the only realistic POD hardcover option. CS will do custom sizes and has the best color to price ratio but won't distribute your book to non-Amazon sites at a custom size. Ka-Blam does custom sizes within a range (they gave me their printer specs) but will only distribute to their IndyPlanet site.
And DriveThru Comics is interesting but they only do Ingram sizes like 7x10 because (surprise!) they print through LightningSource.