> > First, I could not find an answer on the homepage how I can tell CVS to > > check the 1.2.3 CVS or the 1.3.1 CVS - well I will install both in > > paralell, but with the CVS comments on the Scribus Doc page, do I get > > 1.2.3 CVS or 1.3.1 CVS - and what do I have to change to get the other > > one as well? > > Read the documentation pages (docs.scribus.net, Documentation link from > www.scribus.net) under installation. It explains how to get both trees.
No Craig, unless I am not totaly blind there is just information in "installation" about how to get Scribus from CVS. If tried this and it is for 1.2.x CVS. I finaly found my answers regarding 1.3.x CVS in the announcement from February 2005 about public 1.3.x CVS access (category is downloads). So you are right, it's there on the page - but not where I (and you ?) expected ot to be ;-) Thanks anyway! For future reference, the 1.3.x and 1.2.x checkouts are: cvs -z3 co -r Version13x Scribus (for 1.3.x) cvs -z3 co Scribus (for 1.2.x) > > Second, I've read the Docs regarding the fonts, have installed some fonts > > in my local (user) font dir with KDE and now want to tell Scribus to take > > only fonts from this font dir - this means disabeling all the > > /usr/share/... fonts. Do I realy have to uncheck them all one by one (I > > can not even select them all with shift)? > > To my knowledge: yes, unfortunately. But this is something, Peter Linell > is the best person to answer. OK, maybe we get some clarification later. > > Last question (optional) is whether there are realy bad problems with > > 1.3.1 CVS - I want to do some school newspaper stuff ~ 30 pages, I have > > enough time so deal with some gliches (and the 1.3 double page layout > > would save a lot of time for me), so as long as there are no serious pdf > > export problems, I would give it a try, I think. > > I can't recommend 1.3.1cvs for anything other than testing and reporting > bugs at the moment from my experience. There seems to be heavy (and > exciting!) work going on under the hood at the moment. You can, however, > give 1.3 a try. It seems to be quite stable and the new features work > fairly well. Take into account that there still might be some issues, > though. OTOH, many people are obviously using it for production purposes > already. OK, I will test it for some one-sheet work first before I start the magazin. > > Ahhh, maybe some of you DTP pros have a recommendation regarding (free) > > font families that are nice for school magazins - I mean good to read in > > an A4 sized magazin and with a fresh look, cause we are the young ;-) All > > that typo stuff is very interessting but confusing as well ... > > There can be no general answer, since this has a lot to do with > individual preferences and taste. It seems to me that grotesque (sans > serif) fonts, like Helvetica or Myriad, are increasingly used for > continuous text, because this provides a 'modern', 'clean' or 'polished' > impression. I personally dislike this tendency, because it makes reading > *much* harder, especially for longer texts. In case you have installed > Adobe Reader 7 on your machine, you have two really great fonts ready: > Myriad (sans serif) and Minion (serif), one of my favourites. In most > cases, you will have to use the font installer to make them available > for your system. Another great free (as in beer) serif font (although > without a bold face) is Gentium. For more info on fonts, you can skim > through the Wiki, which has lots of additional information. Wikipedia > (en and, in your case, de), also provide good articles and links under > "typography" and "Typographie". Hey that's quite some info I can dig in, thanks! I have a (very good I think) book about Typographie here, but it's not so easy to use all this knowledge from theory in praxis, because they give no examples relevant to linux / free fonts. Nontheless, I'm still lerning ;-)
