OK. I have downloaded and installed Scribus and started to read the documentation (splendid stuff Peter). I am a Windows user who has never done any DTP before, or anything else really, only business accounts (package), the occasional spreadsheet and the usual emails. I have foolishly agreed to prepare and publish our village mag - 32 double sided A4 pages and around 800 copies per run) and thought Scribus hits the button. Now here is the BUT. I now find that I also now have to have GhostScript and Ghostscript viewer, GIMP and I don't know what else, and have got to learn about PS, PDF and EPS files together with typography, fonts, colour manipulation and what seems like a myriad of other things.
My question is simple. Where do I start? Which comes first in the learning curve. Scribus, the other programs, terminology, the file types? I am surrounded, nay buried, in 'new stuff'. So much so that I have lost all sense or direction and have no idea where the door is. Can anybody point to it. -- Please! Alan
