- Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide
- Cedric Gemy
- 446字
- 2025-03-31 05:48:47
- Select the address frame and double-click on it to enter the Edit mode.
- Launch the PP (F2) if it's not active.
- Select all the text by pressing Ctrl + A in the Text tab of the PP:
- Choose the font you want to use in the first select box.
- Reduce the font size until you can see all the text and have some extra space around it. After having set it to 8pt we notice that the line spacing has not changed. Just set it to 9pt.
- Click on the Color & Effects expander and change the fill color from Black to White.
- The biggest part is done. Let's work on some details:
- Select the name and set its font size to 13pt.
- Increase the Fixed Linespacing to 12pt.
- Select the phone number and set it to 13pt, too, with 15pt linespacing. Leaving some space around the phone number will make it more attractive.
- Select the first line of the address and change the linespacing to 11pt to improve the result.
Tip
Missing glyphs
If you've used Radis Sans like I have, you can see that the numbers are replaced by squares. This is not your fault: it's due to the fact that the type designer did not make a glyph for them. Here you have three choices:
- Choose another font for the whole business card that I have created by choosing OpenDIN, which you can download from many places including http://scribusstuff.org/content/show.php/Open+Din+Schriften+Engschrift?content=107153.
- Choose another font only for numbers.
- Edit the font in fontforge if you have the sources and if the license allows it.
Most of the settings depend on the print process. Should we print in full color, with two colors, or with only one? Which would be the cheapest? In our case, since we want to keep the colors of the logo, we will need at least two colors. If we want to stick with them, we have two choices for the text: white (the color of the paper) or dark red.
We have much more freedom for the other settings like the font family or the font size. We will try to keep the address as small as possible and play with bold for the phone number and the name. As the logo is made with round shapes, I prefer a font that resembles it, for example, Okolaks or Radis Sans, which are released under the SIL license.
Do you like it? Feel free to play with the settings until you find what you like. Try to be as simple as possible; don't use too many fonts or colors.