I've been anxiously awaiting for months to start with Scribus, and new fall flat on my face right at the beginning.
I'm running Debian Sarge, and installed Scribus 1.2.1 from the .deb testing package. Following the tutorial, I open a new document, and a New Document dialog appears. When it is dismissed, a new blank page is displayed, showing the margins I had set for the page. To create a frame, I go to Tools-->Properties to bring up the Properties dialog. It pops up, but it is greyed out. I must have missed something obvious. I tried searching on http://search.gmane.org/search.php?query=&group=gmane.comp.graphics.scribus without luck. I find my news server does not recognize the gmane.comp.graphics.scribus newsgroup. Haines Brown
