On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:05, Thomas Zastrow wrote: > Hi friends, > > as I yesterday mentioned I started doing some work on a beginners-tutorial > for Scribus. > > Looking around on Franz' Website I found a really nice tutorial in french, > english and german there: > > http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/doc.html > > So, is there really a necessity for creating one mor tut??? > > Greetings,
The one you saw was an excellent tutorial done by Yves Ceccone, based on much earlier version of Scribus - I think about 0.4.7/8 or so. No, I do not see a need for a "new" tutorial, but what would be good would be: a. in depth stuff on a special feature of Scribus like the one I did on javascripting PDF. I am not really expert with cgi, but you could for example use this for submittable PDF forms to a web server. b. More sample Python scripts and document templates. Patrick just sent me a couple of label templates which make it easy for printing mailing labels for certain sizes. The Python scripts from Yves work really well and accomplish a specific task. What I am doing in the quick start guide - 10 pages already - is to start with an introduction of DTP concepts and then in depth explanations of things like how the text boxes work, importing images etc.. This is what I hope all the translators will work on first in other languages, as I am trying very hard to give users some of the subtle differences between DTP and word processors - this is where new users often get stumped. Then, based translating Yves' superb most recent example of a newsletter, the guide will walk step by step through the document creation process. Then, the last parts are a lesson using the drawing tools, which have become quite useful and powerful, along with some hints for optimal printing with Scribus. Cheers, Peter
