On Friday 29 September 2006 07:25, Maciej Hanski wrote: > Gregory Pittman napisa?(a): > > I've done more work on the tutorial version on the Wiki. (pages 8 and 9) > > Here's the start: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Get_Started_with_Scribus > > Please check it to make sure it makes sense. I think it's time to make a > > link from one of the categories on the main Wiki page. > > Greg, I've just placed this link more prominently on the main page -- > just to make sure, it cannot be overlooked by new Scribus users. I'm > firmly convinced it will finally evolve to an obligatory springboard to > other, more specific Scribus Wiki articles. IMHO, we should _always_ > encourage new users to go through it first. > > > Speaking of extending and improving the tutorial: I would like to > strongly encourage other Scribus users -- at least those who had > volunteered two months ago -- to join "the usual suspects" (Greg, > Christoph, Ludi,me) and help to make this tutorial as newbie friendly > as possible. If you are uncertain of your ideas or merely want to > express some contructive critisism, just click on the "Discussion" tab > and place your comments there. Tell us what is wrong/missing, but do it > within the Scribus Wiki, and it will be very much appreciated. > > > PDF version (TomZ): Thomas, converting the tutorial into PDF's and > keeping those PDF's up to date at this stage of it's and Scribus's > development would be sort of wasting your worthy manpower while it is > bitterly needed somewhere else in the Wiki (FreedomYug tutorial, it's > German version, German Wiki). We could target producing and delivering > such PDF's (perhaps as one PDF file including the tutorial along with > "the best of the wiki" articles) later on, shortly before Scribus 1.3.x > gets stable. Meanwhile, those wanting to read it off screen can simply > hit their browser's "Print" button. > > cheers > Maciej
There are at several problems with that approach. First, you can get pages loaded with extraneous borders, anchors etc. Second, if the organization of the document _depends_ on html anchors then the printing out becomes tedious indeed. Third, such useful appurtenances as a good TOC and a good topic index (with page numbers) are missing. I could create such a pdf but obtaining the multiple graphics in a density suitable for print would also be a problem. I would have to recreate them I suspect. I respectfully suggest that any such documentation could more usefully be prepared with both audiences in mind: the online audience and the print audience. There are tools such as XML and docbook that could be looked at. In the meantime I will revisit the online version to evaluate the labor involved in a conversion. Happily I have nothing more substantive to contribute so that my effort cannot be deemed a waste of time. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
