Thought I'd share my eight-page newsletter with you guys. This is my first 'serious' newsletter project (comes out every two months), and this particular one is my third one - all done on Scribus. It's finally looking nice enough that I feel comfortable in sharing :)
http://www.big-head-ed.com/susan/lp_lit/6-3-4-5.pdf http://www.big-head-ed.com/susan/lp_lit/8-1-2-7.pdf It's pretty apparent how it's laid out - in two four-page blocks (2front/2back) - for the printer. It's printed in B/W so we don't get the cheerful splashes of color that are apparent in the PDFs. I guess I ought to grayscale the images so they come out better when printed. When I started we had a 'real' printer who did all that for me - I just sent the pages as eight separate PDFs and the images too, and they did all the halftoning and placing the 8.5x11 PDFs on the 11x17 sheets. But now we have a guy who basically (as far as I can tell) runs them off on a laser printer. I'm getting a 11x17 laser printer myself, I think, so I can play around with producing the whole thing 'soup to nuts' :) I was especially pleased with the "Longaberger" advertisment on Page 3,because I laid it all out myself - she sent me a crappy old business card and I clipped the image out and put together a much nicer 'card' for the paper. In every issue it seems like a find a new 'toy' in Scribus and overuse it horribly ;-) This one it is SMALLCAPS :) and I did get a bit carried away with STRETCHING text.... But I swear it's a big improvement over the first two issues! I join with others in saying how much I LOVE Scribus, and that it has really inspired me to do all kinds of things. Here is a brochure I made for Thursday's Tax Day protest (for you Europeans; that's when we Americans have to file our income tax returns): http://www.big-head-ed.com/susan/lp_lit/april15_display.pdf Again, no color (I'm printing these at home), and this version is only to showcase the brochure - it's printed out two to a 8.5x11 page; the top half of this page is the 'outside' of the trifold brochure and the bottom is the 'inside'. Each completed sheet is then folded in three and cut in half to produce two brochure-lets. I love that size! :) -- Susan Hogarth http://www.ncliberty.net
