[K12OSN] Magazine mock-up...getting the hang of Scribus!

David Trask dtrask at vcsvikings.org
Sat Dec 3 18:35:44 UTC 2005


If you look closely...you'll notice it is almost like the contents page of
TuxMag  :-)  I figured they had good design...and what better way to teach
myself.


"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Sat Dec  3 2005 at 09:35 +0000 wrote:
>Great work. I am playing around with the same thing. Although I am
>having a little trouble with color matching. I am trying to get it a
>little more lickable (gradients and such) and am making the header and
>borders in inkscape. Keeping it SVG and importing it into Scribus is
>nice, but Scribus seems to chew the SVG a little in the color
>department.
>
>Also any gradient I export to PDF seems washed out.
>
>I like what you did though. What do you think about having that left
>block totally separated from the top, like a drawer in OS X.
>
>I will continue to play with the gradient thing and hopefully we will
>have some templates to input articles into soon.
>
>Tim
>
>On 12/3/05, David Trask <dtrask at vcsvikings.org> wrote:
>> With regard to The Open Source Educator...I have produced a mock-up of a
>> Table of Contents page as part of my experimenting.  The article
>> names....images...etc. are all completely BOGUS....I made them up simply
>> for this mock-up.  You can see it here
>> http://www.vcsvikings.org/download/TOSE-template.pdf
>>
>> I'm getting the hang of this Scribus stuff.....very cool!  I'm liking
>it a
>> lot!  Give me some feedback and some articles!
>> http://www.vcsvikings.org/tose    (wiki)
>>
>> David N. Trask
>> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>> Vassalboro Community School
>> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
>> (207)923-3100
>>
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100




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