This is a fair assessment. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 18:19, john Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:32:41 -0500 (GMT-05:00) > "William F. Maddock" <billsey at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > The barking, biting attitude that I saw earlier is one that I would > > expect to find on the Moobunny forums, > > There is some history here. Gang Chen and Alice Chen have written a > book with the title "Using FREE Scribus Software to Create Professional > Presentations, Book Covers, Magazine Covers, Graphic Designs...(etc)" > Almost all of the book is devoted to book covers, and all of the book > covers look alike, the front panel consisting of a green bar with text, > followed by a photo, followed by another green bar with more text. The > Chen book is an earnest effort but Chen is a bit of a newbie in the > field. For example describes how to import an ISBN bar code in jpg > format. He apparently was not aware that is best practice to use a > vector format for bar codes. He was also not aware it seems that > Scribus has its own bar code generator so no import is needed. > > Chen is a very busy marketer, however. I applaud his diligence at > marketing, but sending a linkedin invitation to the Scribus mailing > list is either a foolish mistake or incredible arrogance. > > Now I wrote an e-booklet, a bit long in the tooth at this point, that > competes with his much more expensive paperback. So I am certainly not > an unbiased observer. I would feel more generous to Chen however if he > had spent more time on this list and learned a bit more. He does remind > me of those self publishers whose second (or first!) book is a book > on self publishing. > > "Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; > A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." > (Alexander Pope.) > > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110827/85b84f6d/attachment.html>
