On Tuesday 21 July 2009 12:37:20 am THOU Management, Inc wrote: > I am having serious problems with Scribus. When I export my PDF > Template from LSi to a .eps file and bring it into Scribus I am > missing my cover page and spine lines. I have the lines in PDF > but I am not able to see it in Scribus. Please, please help. I > have spent all day on this and to no avail. I am desparate. > Should I just reload Scribus ans start from scratch? > > My suggestion: don't use the LSI template. Instead visit my site: http://wexfordpress.net/template.html and generate the guides and dimensions needed for a full size Scribus template. Many experienced LSI users submit a true size cover pdf or even a tiff file in lieu of using their template. My template guides go beyond the LSI template with center lines for both spine and front cover. That makes lining things up easier. After you set up the overall dimensions you can add the guides with exact placement. Here is a quote from my e-book: ---------------------------------------------------------- ...change the measurement unit from ?pt? to ?in?. Next we need to set up our vertical guides. Click on Page->Manage Guides and the window on the right will come up. Go to the ?Vertical Guides? column and use the ?Add? key to add each value from the template. Hit ?Enter after filling out each value. As you add them they will appear on the thumbnail on the right. When finished carefully proofread the numbers, click ?Lock Guides?, click ?Apply to all pages?, and finally click ?Update? ?OK? and ?Close? to exit. ----------------------------------------------------------- -- The e-book gives more details of course. But the above should get you started.
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