Linking Text Frames

Putting large amounts of text in a document

CubicExplorer

A file explorer similar to Windows Explorer only much much better. Way better in fact. It is not limited to looking at just windows it can look on all external hard drives from inside of VirtualBox as well. Well worth taking it for a spin to see it it's up your alley!

Down load Cubic Explorer
Portable version

Drupal7 Install on Ubuntu using Xampp

Just a quick video on installing drupal in Ubuntu

Background to transparency

Just a little tip on how to convert a .png image with a colored background to a transparent background using the Gimp

Scribus-Blender-Button-Window

This video de-constructs the button window text box and it's layers

Scribus-Blender-Mesh-Modelling

This video deals with the Mesh Modeling text box and it layering.

Scribus-Managing-3D-Objects

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This video dels with the layers of the 3D Objects text box

Scribus-Blender-Interface

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This I deal with the text box Blenders Interface. I show you how the layering works for this text box.

Scribus-Blender-Intro

In this the first video we give you an overview of the layering used to create this document by Blender in Scribus

Scribus-Blender-Overview

Over the next five videos I will deconstruct a Scribus document created by Blender showing you how you can create a complicated document in layers making less complicated to make this way.

Scribus Templates

This Tutorial shows you how to save your Scribus documents as a template for future use.

Outlines and Scrapbook a Practical Example

Here is a practical example of applying outlines and using teh scrapbook to make a simple poster for a notice board.

Scribus-ScrapBook

In this video I'll show you how to use the scrap book to re-use common elements and objects instead of re-creating them over and over again.

Text To Outlines

How to turn normal text into an object to use as banners etc

Import from Google Docs To OpenOffice

Using the OpenOffice Gdocs extension I'll show how to import a Google docs document into OpenOffice Writer. For this one I'm using a new mic so I'd appreciate some feedback o sound quality even though I'm still playing with the sound settings.

OpenOffice to Google Docs

Using an extension in OpenOffice it is possible to upload your OpenOffice documents to Google Docs. with the only draw back being that your documents get converted to Google Docs format.

Flow Text Around Picture

Just a quick video to show how to get text to flow around pictures

Install Apps From PPA's

Here's a really nice Lucid feature. In this video you can see that users can now add software from your PPA without using the CLI. They just need to get you deb line, and using the software center, they are good to go.

Scribus Gradient Text

How to use Scribus to produce gradient text effect

OOo-Synonym-Extension

This is an extension that allows you to use Synonyms in Writer. It's a bit of a Primadona when setting up but, once set up it works fine. This video takes you through the process I used to set it up.