Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide. Here's the manual you always wanted for Scribus. It takes you step-by-step through this fully featured Desktop Publishing program so that even absolute beginners will be creating professional-looking documents in no time

Cedric Gemy, Christoph Schafer

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning and inexpensive professional page layout to desktop computers with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page layout. Creating professional-looking documents using Scribus is not a cakewalk, especially with so many features at your disposal, it’s hard to know where to get started! Scribus Beginners guide walks users step by step through common projects, such as creating a brochure,newsletter, business cards and so on. It also includes guidelines on starting a web newsletter and online PDF (Adobe Acrobat format) newsletter along with basic scripting to extend Scribus as per your requirements. This book begins with the simplest tasks and brings you progressively to adapt your workflow to the most efficient tools. It commences with the description of the graphic tool chain and an overall chapter on how to draw a simple and attractive business card. You'll then see how to manage the pages of your document and organized their structure thanks to guides. Then being invited to fill them with text, you'll be able to import, set text style as well as use replacement and hyphenation tool. Pictures or vector drawing will be added to the documents too. You'll be taught to choose the best format at the best time, modify or distort the shapes to get very custom documents. You will also learn how Scribus handles advanced color features such as transparencies, overprinting, spot colors precisely and be sure they are set well for a print result without bad surprise. At the end, you'll know to produce a perfect PDF file, be it for print jobs or web with effects, buttons and javascript interactivity, extend the document capacities as well as Scribus tools with simple programming especially with the python language.

Modern Python Cookbook. 130+ updated recipes for modern Python 3.12 with new techniques and tools - Third Edition

Steven F. Lott

Python is the go-to language for developers, engineers, data scientists, and hobbyists worldwide. Known for its versatility, Python can efficiently power applications, offering remarkable speed, safety, and scalability. This book distills Python into a collection of straightforward recipes, providing insights into specific language features within various contexts, making it an indispensable resource for mastering Python and using it to handle real-world use cases.The third edition of Modern Python Cookbook provides an in-depth look into Python 3.12, offering more than 140 new and updated recipes that cater to both beginners and experienced developers. This edition introduces new chapters on documentation and style, data visualization with Matplotlib and Pyplot, and advanced dependency management techniques using tools like Poetry and Anaconda. With practical examples and detailed explanations, this cookbook helps developers solve real-world problems, optimize their code, and get up to date with the latest Python features.

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services. Decrease the time to market for AI and ML applications with the power of AWS

Subhashini Tripuraneni, Charles Song

From data wrangling through to translating text, you can accomplish this and more with the artificial intelligence and machine learning services available on AWS.With this book, you’ll work through hands-on exercises and learn to use these services to solve real-world problems. You’ll even design, develop, monitor, and maintain machine and deep learning models on AWS.The book starts with an introduction to AI and its applications in different industries, along with an overview of AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning services. You’ll then get to grips with detecting and translating text with Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Translate. The book will assist you in performing speech-to-text with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Polly. Later, you’ll discover the use of Amazon Comprehend for extracting information from text, and Amazon Lex for building voice chatbots. You will also understand the key capabilities of Amazon SageMaker such as wrangling big data, discovering topics in text collections, and classifying images. Finally, you’ll cover sales forecasting with deep learning and autoregression, before exploring the importance of a feedback loop in machine learning.By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to implement AI in AWS through hands-on exercises that cover all aspects of the ML model life cycle.

Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook. Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently create complex and highly personalized enterprise intranet solutions with Liferay Portal 6.x CE

Piotr Filipowicz, Katarzyna B Ziolkowska, Katarzyna Zió?Çkowska, Poitr Filipowicz

Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide. Oracle ADF is one of the easiest ways to develop rich internet applications. All you need is a little Java to get the most from this book as it takes you step-by-step from installation, to development, to implementation

Vinod Krishnan, Vinod Thatheri Krishnan

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end framework which makes application development simple by providing infrastructure services as well as visual and declarative development right away. Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide guides any user with programming skills to be able to quickly learn the options and ways to develop rich Internet applications using ADF 11gR2. Containing all the skills that a new user has to use to build an application in ADF 11gR2, this book is designed in such a way so that it enhances the practical feel of developing applications in ADF 11gR2. Starting with the installation and configuration of Oracle ADF 11g RD we will then work through topics such as working with the Model Layer and Model Data followed by displaying and binding the data. Later we will look at Navigations and Flows within applications as well as their layout, look, and feel. Oracle ADF 11g R2 Development Beginner's Guide will conclude with us looking at the security and deployment of the applications which have been created.

Learning Google Apps Script. Customize and automate Google Applications using Apps Script

Ramalingam Ganapathy

Google Apps Script is a cloud-based scripting language based on JavaScript to customize and automate Google applications. Apps Script makes it easy to create and publish add-ons in an online store for Google Sheets, Docs, and Forms.It serves as one single platform to build, code, and ultimately share your App on the Web store.This book begins by covering the basics of the Google application platform and goes on to empower you to automate most of the Google applications.You will learn the concepts of creating a menu, sending mails, building interactive web pages, and implementing all these techniques to develop an interactive Web page as a form to submit sheetsYou will be guided through all these tasks with plenty of screenshots and code snippets that will ensure your success in customizing and automating various Google applicationsThis guide is an invaluable tutorial for beginners who intend to develop the skills to automate and customize Google applications

Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android. Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

Nilanchala Panigrahy, Mark Reynolds

Ionic Cookbook. Over 35 exciting recipes to spice up your application development with Ionic

Hoc Phan