On Saturday, April 30, 2011 09:09:36 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 04/29/2011 06:18 PM, Ray McInnis wrote: > > hello: > > > > a newbie to scribus, i am having some success, and some failures, > > basically blundering my way. > > > > (the mail should bring schaefer's manual today.) > > > > i work in both linux and windows, -- and this is one of my blunders, out > > which i was extracted by a friend -- and made the mistake of downloading > > scribus 1.4 (still in beta). > > > > i have three questions: > > > > 1) with scribus 1.3, how do you paste a whole odt file into a scribus > > file, and, page by page, have the the entire file distributed evenly? > > Hi Ray. The first thing to say is that you have a lot of reading to do, > and it's good that you've ordered the manual. Scribus, like most DTP > programs, works in a frames environment. The page you see when you start > a document is just a virtual space to work in. The actual content, > whether it's text, images, some sort of graphic, is in a container > called a frame. You make a text frame for text, image frame for an > image. If you want an image in the midst of text, you will need an image > frame superimposed on a text frame. > Because of this frames structure and all the variables such as font > size, linespacing, and so on, a page of an ODT file may or may not > correspond to a single page-sized text frame. One thing worth mentioning > is that when you start a document, the dialog that pops up will let you > create a number of pages, and also automatic text frames. If you create > a number of pages, these frames will automatically be linked, so that if > you load your ODT file into the first page's text frame it will > automatically flow into the next page's frame, and if you need to add > more pages later, these too will automatically have text frames and be > linked to the previous page's text frame (if you have selected automatic > frames at the beginning). > While you wait for your manual to arrive, check out the online manual > inside of Scribus (F1 > Documentation), which has a less verbose and > less complete collection that should help you get started. The section > Scribus Basics should be particularly helpful. There is also the Scribus > wiki, but I think this will likely be more helpful after you've gotten > some basic sense of Scribus. > > > 2) where do you find out the functions of the commands p30, p31, etc? > > Not sure what you mean -- I'm not aware of such commands. Where are you > seeing this? > > > 3) where do you find recommended page formatting settings? > > When you start Scribus or click to start a new document, you get a > dialog with your default settings, which should be A4 paper, units in > points, a single page, no automatic frames, and the default margins. You > can change these settings each time you make a new document, but you can > also reset the defaults to whatever you would like, under File > > Preferences > Document, but of course there are numerous other settings > you can change under Preferences. > > Greg >
When changing the defaults just make sure there is no document open. That will make them carry forward from document to document. If there is a document open the changes will affect only that document. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
