Greg, Thanks for your reply. There are 19 icons on my menu bar but not a single one to insert a shape, and that is part of the problem. The tutorial reads:
?NEXT, WE NEED A GRAY BACKGROUND FOR OUR PAGE. CLICK ON THE WHITE (OR LIGHT GRAY) RECTANGLE IN THE MENU BAR OR SIMPLY PRESS S ON THE KEYBOARD.? The author assumes (INCORRECTLY) that I understand that we must first insert a shape in order to create the background.!! I assumed that pressing the s key, would create a gray background. I did not press the shift key as the instructions did not say to do so. However, I obviously missed noting that the cursor had changed, or it might have been off the page. My Bad! I should also mention that I was not in the Edit Contents mode, however, I just found the missing icon(s): Windows Menu>Tools. !! My apologies for not trimming this post. I still haven't figured out how to do that in gmail !! On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > On 07/11/2014 09:00 PM, William wrote: > >> Hi Group, >> >> I?m going through the Rembrandt tutorial, which can be found here: >> >> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:Manual_Quickstart# >> Scribus_Quick_Start_Guide >> >> and have encountered two problems. After selecting the default color >> palette of ?Scribus Basic?, the next step was to select color swatch >> ?scribus X11" I did find simply X11, but not ?scribus X11". Perhaps the >> tutorial was built with an earlier version of Scribus. Mine is 1.4.4 >> >> After creating a new document, which went smoothly, the instructions are >> as >> follows: >> >> ?Next, we need a gray background for our page. Click on the white (or >> light >> gray) rectangle in the menu bar or simply press S on the keyboard.? >> >> I cannot find any white or light gray rectangle on the menu bar, and the >> ?S? key is not doing anything, as far as I can determine. >> >> Your input on this little problem is greatly appreciated. >> >> >> It's good to know people are using the tutorial. As you can see from the > screenshots, it was made with 1.3.9svn, but should still be valid for 1.4.4. > > 1. Yes, Scribus X11 is now called just X11. > 2. It's hard to imagine that you don't have the Insert Shape icon on the > menu bar. You may want to try hovering over each item on the toolbar to see > its tooltip, which can be useful for the future. The one for the Shape icon > says, "Insert Shape (S)". Perhaps something that is misleading is that you > might think that you should press Shift-S, as in capital S, but no, just > press the S key as if you're making a small s. This should activate the > cursor for making a rectangle. If you happen to be in Edit Contents mode, > pressing the Esc key will get you out of it. You can always go to the menu > for Insert > Insert Shape. > When you find the icon, you'll a down-pointing arrow beside it, where you > can change the default shape that you make. > > Greg > > ___ > 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/20140711/3a7f6f05/attachment.html>
