LEARN DESKTOP PUBLISHING WITH SCRIBUS | THE OPEN SOURCE DTP

 
COURSE DURATION
:
1 Day (7 Hours)
AWARD TYPE 
:
Certificate of Completion
TOTAL COURSE FEES
:
RM 500 per participant (HRDF Claimable)
VENUE
:
In-house (client’s location)
MIN/MAX Participants 
:
Minimum 3 participants, Maximum 8 participants


WHAT IS   SCRIBUS?
SCRIBUS is a free Open Source Desktop Publishing software for any general office/business documents, flyers, posters, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books and eBooks or any document that requires more than the usual wordprocessing software. An excellent tool for designing your web pages or even web-based documents, it rivals Adobe InDesign and the fact that you don’t need to purchase or pay any licensing fees for SCRIBUS. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  1. Companies that wants a lower cost DTP solution as opposed to Adobe In Design 
  2. You want to work in the Desktop Publishing industry and need to acquire the knowledge  
  3. Any company that produces marketing materials and/or large amount of stylised documents



LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to:

  1. Produce harness the power of DTP for your own industry/line of work
  2. Know the fundamentals of DTP and easily produce stylised documents
  3. Also understand and easily migrate (if needed) to Adobe InDesign solution 








1    Introduction
    1. What you should already know 
    2. What you will learn
    3. Downloading a copy of the SCRIBUS software
2    The Basics 
    1. Layers
    2. Frames
    3. Guides
    4. Text Threading
3    Setting up the DTP Tool
    1. Tool layout
    2. Dual monitors 
    3. Tool settings
    4. Document Defaults
4    Working with layers
    1. Ordering of objects within layers
5    Working with guides
    1. Bleeds
6.   Working with frames
    1. What are frames
    2. Applying frames
7    Working with text
    1. Text threading
    2. Text wrap 
    3. Styles : Paragraph styles & Character styles

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