One of the main problems I am finding is that Scribus keeps saying I can't do anything with an image because I don't have Gimp. Is Gimp necessary to run Scribus?? To alter size of an image, since there don't seem to be the easy "grab" points MS Word has, I tried going thru menus until I found "edit image" - that is what led to the error message about Gimp.
--- On Fri, 12/10/10, Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak at wp.pl> wrote: From: Grzegorz Staniak <[email protected]> Subject: [scribus] Odp: Help - need a tutorial for "dummies" - ie: newbies To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 4:42 PM On 10-12-2010 at 22:12 randy.pare at rogers.com wrote: > I am utterly lost. The controls [for an MS Word > guy, like me] do not seem intuitive. Simple things like importing a > picture and manipulating its size to fit on the page seem impossible. One piece of advice from someone who quite recently was a total noob too: ALWAYS keep the Properties Palette visible. Always. It really helps. Check what it shows, use it to position, scale, and set properties on objects. Also: use and explore the "Window" menu (for alignment and distribution, for example). > An?image comes in and there doesn't seem to be anyway to alter size. See above. Press F2, use the Properties Palette (the "Image" section). > I receive articles, poetry shorts? stories all writtne on MS Word and would like to import the?docs and > place them over background art etc etc.? Create a text frame, right click, "Get text". First you need to convert the articles though. > What I am hoping to learn is this: > ? > How to use Scribus to create a document that has > artistic backgrounds with text and other art on top, that I can then > convert to PDF. ... and it would be best for you, I think, to spare a few bucks for the book: https://www.packtpub.com/scribus-1-3-5-beginners-guide/book You can even get a discount if you scan the group archive for the 10th anniversary email ;) > BTW I have read the READ ME file and BASICs tutorial that come with Scribus - just could not find answers to what I am > asking there. Ask here then. GS -- Grzegorz Staniak, gstaniak _at_ wp *dot* pl _______________________________________________ scribus mailing list scribus at lists.scribus.info http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101210/e9eb9f57/attachment.htm>
