Here is a link to a potential introductory page for our manual. ftp://www.infoisfree.com/scribus/scribusmanual.pdf
This is on my own website (note that it's ftp) -- it's about 603KB. I'm hoping to generate some feedback about how people like it from as many aspects as you care to mention. There were many arbitrary decisions -- paper size, for one. I started out with US Letter, then switched to A4 because I needed a little more space. The fonts are Linux Libertine, so ended up being outlined in the PDF. I thought about making two columns, wasn't sure I liked the idea, so went with one. The PDF is 1.4 -- my default setting. I might add that this page was (and hopefully not many others will be) written from scratch, because I really didn't want and I don't think the manual either should get bogged down in a multipage introduction that very quickly becomes the least useful part of the manual. If someone is looking for detail, I send them to other docs. Greg
