![]() ![]() Pick up the stack of pages with the covers facing up. Print at 100%, double sided (short edge). How do I print a zine made with a half size template?įirst, once your zine is complete, you can either export to PDF or print directly from Scribus. Use a scissors to fold down the staple ends on the inside of the zine. Open a normal stapler and staple down through the solid line and into the soft material beneath. If you don't have a long arm or saddle stapler, try putting your zine flat on top of foam or a thick piece of fabric or carpet. If you don't have a paper cutter, use a scissors to cut along each dotted line and match up the pages, then staple or otherwise bind the zine along the solid line. Then staple or otherwise bind the zine where the front and back cover meet. Put the stack of paper with the covers on top of the other stack. See where the dotted line is? If you have a paper cutter, cut the entire stack of pages along that dotted line. Print at 100%, double sided (long edge for portrait, short edge for landscape). How do I print a zine made with a quarter size template?įirst, once your zine is complete, you can either export to PDF or print directly from Scribus. But these templates will at least show you where each page goes and you can go from there! ![]() If you want to learn to add more than just text to the template, you'll need to look up some tutorials for Scribus. You can write an entire text-heavy zine this way. All of the text boxes are connected so that if you continue to type and type and type, you will pass through each box in numerical order until you reach the back cover of the zine. Using the text tool, click in the box on the front cover and write your zine's title, then hit enter until you get to the box on page 1. ![]() What you'll want to do is click in any non page number text box, select all of the text (CTRL-A or CMD-A), and delete it, making note of where the front and back cover are. You'll also see page numbers, and lots of filler text. There will be text on the front cover of the zine that shows that it's the front cover, and where the text begins, as well as text on the back cover of the zine that shows that it's the back cover, and where the text ends. When you first open up a template, it may look a little overwhelming. 10 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (80 pages).9 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (72 pages).8 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (64 pages).7 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (56 pages).6 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (48 pages).5 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (40 pages).4 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (32 pages).3 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (24 pages).2 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (16 pages).1 Sheet Quarter Size Landscape Zine (8 pages).Here are the templates I'm still planning to make and upload: 10 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (80 pages).9 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (72 pages).8 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (64 pages).7 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (56 pages).6 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (48 pages).5 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (40 pages).4 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (32 pages).3 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (24 pages).2 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (16 pages).1 Sheet Quarter Size Portrait Zine (8 pages).Note that these templates are for US Letter sized paper! Here are the currently available templates: If you have Affinity Publisher and would rather have the templates for that program, click this link: quirks, especially in the Mac version (which I used to make these.) If I, a graphic designer, had a rough time with Scribus, it's got to be even more rough for the casual user. Hopefully these templates will help people on a budget have an easier time making text-heavy zines with more than a few pages. I will admit at the start, Scribus is trickier to use than Affinity Publisher, and it has lots of. After making a bunch of templates for Affinity Publisher for more complex zine layouts, I heard from enough people who can't afford the Affinity Suite that I decided to make a bunch more templates for the free alternative desktop publishing program Scribus. I've been making zines for years now, and during that time I've generally had to figure out how to make more complex zines on my own, as almost all of the resources and templates that are freely available are for simple mini zines.
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