Right click and either fit the image to the frame, or fit the frame to the imageįrom there you might want to drag the frame and/or image to make it the size you want. Of course, you said you 'wanted to load' a UPS label, so it was a scanned picture of an existing UPS label, in which case you simply follow the steps in the manual.ĭrop an image into the image frame (or use the dialog to find one) So you could have far more easily 'created' a UPS label in Scribus, than trying to 'load' one from somewhere.Īdd the text you want, and make the font sizes etc look the way you want.
The basics though are almost exactly LibreOffice Draw Think of Scribus as LibreOffice Draw - but much more powerful and easier to use. It is designed for Creating things using Text and Images. Scribus is not designed for 'loading things into'. Was a miserable failure, it is done, I am uninstalling it I tried Scribus again today, all I wanted to do was load a UPS return label and print it out. Just suggesting that Scribus is much more versatile that it appears at first glance, and that it is also very easy to use.
IN face, Scribus even lets you choose which PDF format you want to use (including Post Script - Encapsulated post Script).Īnother advantage of a DTP program over using a Word Processor, is that a program like Scribus allows you to quickly rearrange things like dragging frames filled with text, or images OFF The Page and into the 'desk area' of the document, changing (scrolling in Scribus) to another page, and dragging said images or text frames back onto a different page. Bleed areas (for book margins etc.) can be where your publisher wants them and books (and other documents) of almost any size and design and page length can be created.Ī DTP program is not difficult to use, and with PDF being pretty universal these days, most publishers have no problem with files in that format. So for Scribus, as long as Text is typed into a (resizeable) Text Frame, and images are inserted into a (resizeable) Image frame, just about anything can be put anywhere, and all sorts of changes can be made. Almost all of the publishing programs are designed to output a form of PostScript file, originally PS for Mac, but now supported generically as Adobe's PDF.
Publisher for Windows is more or less a copy of Express Publisher (originally a Non MS, Dos program). The thing is, anyone who has used MS Publisher for Windows should have no problem with Scribus.
For anyone who considers Scribus a challenge, there are some (a very few) potential ideas here: