2009/7/2 Blue Beehive <alan at bluebeehive.com>: > 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!
It's not so hard. you only need to know enough to get it done. Collect your material photos, text articles. Make a new A4 page then add image frames for the photos and text frames for the text. As you start wanting to do something specific with a picture or text, or you want to print it then you can find out about that. somebody else can probably be more precise. regards mick
