Desktop Publishing

Desktop publishing is a system that allows you to use various margins and justifications, different typefaces, and embed illustrations and graphs directly into the text. The most powerful desktop publishing systems allows you to make illustrations and the less powerful do not allow you. Scribus is a computer application that you can use for desktop publishing.

Scribus belongs to the family of applications known as Desktop Publishing programs.These create great looking documents such as CD covers, posters, logos and drawings very easily and Import photos and other artwork with precise color control. Web and print have two different objectives. Graphics used on a website are almost always unusable for commercial printing. If the text is going to be a big part of your document, start your favorite text editor or word processor and compose the text first. Bitmap images are composed of pixels or dots and are tipically on the formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP. These generate line drawings and other artwork which is kept in a vector format inways which preserve their appearance at any scale. Vector files don't save dots, but coordinates which describe  where to draw the lines or fill shapes. One other way you can import files into Scribus is via PDF. This is more appropriate for drawings and images versus text. If you need just the text from a PDF, you can open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader or KPDF and copy and paste from the clipboard. you can only import one page of a PDF at a time, and you cannot yet edit imported PDFs.