MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Dec 2, 2010 at Portland State University in the Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science Building Room FAB 86-01 (This is in the basement.) The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg
******************************************************************* Presentation Open Source Desktop Publishing with Scribus by John Jason Jordan Scribus is just a few years old, but has already achieved most of the features of the expensive commercial desktop publishing apps, and a few they don't have. If you need to do fliers, brochures, or whole books, Scribus is now the preferred tool. The presentation will start with a brief introduction to some of the terms of desktop publishing, especially how to get your computer to produce something that a print shop can put on a press. This will include matters such as typography, color management, banding and line screens, transparency, imposition, and several other issues. Then we will spend a few minutes on an overview of Scribus, how it is different from word processors, TeX, and advantages and disadvantages. This will include the basic features of Scribus, including typographical controls, master pages, render frames, PDF forms, PDF export options, scripting, collect for output, and lots more. It will also cover how Scribus is the end tool in a process that starts with other programs. Finally we will reproduce the PLUG flier that was created in Scribus. This will be presented on the screen showing the steps and features of Scribus necessary to produce it. Each member of the audience will have a paper copy of the flier to assist in following the process. ******************************************************************* Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc. 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation See above 9:00 - ... Beer The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon David Mandel Chief Activist Portland Linux/Unix Group 560 SE Alexander Corvallis, Oregon 97333 (541) 730-5285 mobile dmandel at pdxLinux.org P.S. The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets every month. See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details. P.S. The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month. See http://www.euglug.org for details. ====================================================================== David Mandel http://www.DavidMandel.com Portland Linux/Unix Group http://pdxLinux.org LinuxFund http://LinuxFund.org ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
