Am Sonntag, 23. Juli 2006 22:38 schrieb Allen: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > [snip] > > > Pat, > > > > before you continue with your rants, I strongly suggest you try to read > > at least some of the documentation on docs.scribus.net and > > wiki.scribus.net. It seems you have missed one essential part of Scribus' > > ui "philosophy", namely the properties palette (F2 or right click > > > properties). If you play around with it a bit, you will see most if not > > all of your issues disappear. I also recommend you to have a look at the > > three major commercial DTP programs QuarkXPress, InDesign, and PageMaker > > instead of some exotics. People who switch from any of those to Scribus, > > usually have few to no difficulties in using the program. > > Christoph, > > I'm a highly skilled Framemaker user, though only a moderately skilled > PageMaker user, and I find Scribus totally non-intuitive.
That's sad, but FrameMaker is a different kind of animal. Quark, PM, ID and company are the relatives of Scribus. If you are used to them, you should be able to do your work easily after a short time. > I've invested > about 20 hours in reading the docs and the wiki, but it has not proved > to be very useful in actually getting Scribus to work as the docs are > out of sync with what I mistakenly though was the right one to download, > the 1.3x not the 1.2x. Yes, the docs aren't completely up-to-date, but the basic working principles haven't changed that much between 1.2x and 1.3x, and Pat was talking about newbies. Also, expect some relief regarding documentation soon. > 1.2x is missing too many things to be very useful > to me. If your tool of choice is FrameMaker, definitely, if you use all the bells and whistles of QXP and ID, also. > I suspect that I will do the same as a friend did, pass on > Scribus until 1.4x and the doc set has caught up. Maybe you can pay Scribus a visit every now and then before 1.4, just to tell the developers what you think should be improved :) > > Best, > > Allen Cheers, Christoph
