#SCRIBUS MAGAZINE TEMPLATE HOW TO#

(From the look of the magazine SLA I would recommend NOT using it to base your own stuff on. This is one of the problems with using other people's stuff: you don't know how they made it. Open the Layers Palette (F6) and try changing layers (as utnik said above I wrote most of this before his reply). The problem you're probably having is that you are currently on a different layer to the objects you are trying to edit. I haven't tried the tutorial you mentioned but I just downloaded the related files - from Scribus 1.2! - and both the SLAs are totally editable as far as I can see.

#SCRIBUS MAGAZINE TEMPLATE HOW TO#

Once you start learning how to use Scribus properly - rather than just inserting images and text into other people's templates - it will allow you to create anything you want. Now you can start to think about adding other 'furniture' to the page such as page numbers and other graphical devices. Once you've got to this point you've made a big start on designing your own article. Then change the font and size to roughly match the original example. Find a text frame and change the number of columns until it looks about right. Then you can start to add sample text to the text frames and random/dummy images into the image frames. You can always move the guides and re-align the frames later if you want to. Create guides where you think they should line up and drag/resize the frames to match the guides. Then you can look at where frames might line up. They don't need to be exact, just get them roughly in the right place. For example, draw text frames where there is some text and draw image frames where there are images. You could start by finding an article you like and then roughly drawing the different parts of the page in Scribus. I realise that might seem like a tall order but it's the best way to learn and it's not that difficult to get something basic but usable. Your best bet is to do it yourself from scratch. If there was, the magazine would be a very boring read.

There is no such thing as a 'standard' magazine article, even within the same magazine. Do you want something simple like these: or something more creative like these: For the few that are good, most of them are for very specific things so you're unlikely to find something that's good for what you want.ДЄlso, there are so many different types of articles in New Scientist. Most templates that are available aren't very good. Scribus templates are, essentially, just Scribus documents that have a different file type. There are some 'templates' around for Scribus but they're not - what I would call - 'real' templates as they have no more functionality that any normal document has.

Scribus magazine template