I have that book, am a beginner, and find it helpful.
-- Ken On Jan 2, 2011 9:04 PM, "Duleep Samuel" <dksamuel at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Tzipora, using a DTP is really serious work, can I suggest that > you use a good book, like Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide by Cedric > Gemy https://www.packtpub.com/scribus-1-3-5-beginners-guide/book, (I > am not the author) I have used the book and it helped me immensely in > answering such questions, with regards, Samuel, Bangalore, India > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Margaret and George McIntosh > <tenbear at myfairpoint.net> wrote: >> On 1 Jan 2011 at 12:20, Scribus User Mailing List wrote: >> >>> On 1 Jan 2011 at 19:02, Tzipora Ne'eman wrote: >>> >>> > I'm a mac user, OS 10.6.5 and I've downloaded Scribus. I tried >>> to >>> > import some text from Word to use in Scribus and can't do it. >>> > >>> > Any suggestions? >>> > >>> > Also, is there a Mac version of the manual for beginners? >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > >>> > Tzipora >>> >> There are many ways to place text in Scribus. Here is one way. >> >> 1. Make a large text frame >> 2. Right click inside the text frame. >> 3. Click on "Get Text" in the window that appears. >> 4. Select the .txt file you want to get. The file name should appear in the File Name >> box. Click on OK. The first part of the text should appear in the frame. >> 5. Since you are importing many pages of text you will have to place text frames on >> other pages and link the frames so the text flows to the other frames. >> >> Good luck >> >> George >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110102/8dbde1f6/attachment.htm>
