On 10/6/2011 3:29 PM, ale rimoldi wrote: > hi > > a mail from the past... > >>> You guys are all saying that NEW users should download the 1.4RC5 >>> to start with, but there is no tutorial based on that version while >>> there is a tutorial based on the 1.3.3.14 version. > > there are many others reasons which makes me suggest to use 1.4RC5. > > the three most important reasons are > - 1.4RC5 is already more stable than 1.3.3.14 > - nobody who does (free) support for scribus has 1.3.3.14 installed, so > no chance to get some help with it > - when the 1.3.3.14 people hit a problem, they're very deceived to hear > that there is no chance to see it fixed, expect waiting for 1.4 (they > mostly don't understand why, since 1.3.14 is the stable and 1.4 is > not the stable!) > >>> I, being a >>> brand new user, find that I need both versions, because if I don't >>> find the elements mentioned in the tutorial where it says they are, >>> then I am lost. >>> >>> It is, after all, the NEW user who has the most need for a tutorial. >> >> Honestly, in my experience, the quickest way to find out how to do >> something (or whether it's even supported at all) is Google. I've >> never even used the Scribus tutorial. > > there is the help in scribus which is mostly available by pressing the > F1 key (the "working with" chapters could replace a tutorial)... but > indeed no tutorial. > > but anybody could port that tutorial to 1.4... i don't think it such a > huge task. > (personally, i don't like that tutorial: so it's not me who will port > it... but i could translate in english the "hands on" chapter i wrote > for the scribus manual in french: > http://fr.flossmanuals.net/Scribus/PriseEnMain ; is there any interest?) > >
I would definitely be interested. -- Dale Erwin Lurigancho, Lima 15 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.26, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18460) http://www.pctools.com/ =======
