On Saturday 20 October 2007 09:50:44 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > jeff Weir wrote: > > Does anyone know of a PDF format manual for scribus that I could print > > out and carry with me? > > This is perhaps a paradox with Scribus, in that a project designed to > make PDFs does not have a manual in its own or in PDF format. Beyond > that, I think one would have to say that the value of printing out and > carrying around with you the current online manual would be either > unnecessary or largely unhelpful. The wiki is where much of the > practical nuts-and-bolts kind of information is, and unfortunately the > wiki structure does not print well from most, perhaps all browsers, with > many graphics misplaced or missing altogether. > > This page: > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Index > may help for some questions if the overall structure of the wiki seems > like trying to decide which wildebeest to pick out of the large herd of > wiki articles. > > On a practical note, I would say that users of Scribus benefit greatly > from simply using it, since once you get into the mindset of its > operation, you can manage quite well, with the episodic orientation from > the wiki and other sources. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy > with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com
The Wiki has this problem, there is no segregation of articles by version used. Comments directed to an earlier version may be confusing/inapplicable to a later version. I don't underestimate the difficulties of creating a manual. I hope others don't underestimate the need for one however. Here is a possiblity. I use the free program suite TeX. The software is free and the maintainers unpaid. But I have bought several books relating to TeX. Those authors were compensated. Perhaps if someone wrote a book and made it available in ebook form for a fee then the rest of us could pay and print locally. As I recall this was done for Inkscape. Or it coud be produced in paperback form. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
