Craig, I'm sure you get many compliments. I have not doubt whatsoever, however.... Well, it's like this, most people won't tell you there is a problem, they'll just go away. I personally know 3 people who tried to use Scribus and dumped it. I thought it was just because they were Linux kernel coders, SMTP experts, and C++ programmers that there heads were not screwed on the right way to understand a frames based DTP program. When my friend Bob, the kernel level coder, talked about a book he and a team or programmers were doing about Linux appliances, he mentioned the difficulties he'd had doing it in Scribus. I commiserated with him and decided to try it to see if it was truly as bad/difficult to understand as he said, which is why I'm here.
I know for a fact he and his partners never wrote any notes to the Scribus team about their problems, they just moved on and tried DocBook, which they abandoned shortly before settling on a combination of AbiWord and OpenOffice. How many others have done the same? Inquiring minds would like to know. Best, Allen Craig Bradney wrote: >> I guess what I'm trying to point out is that BandiPat's issues are >> real for someone (like me) new to scribus and that - for us - the >> online docs and wiki won't always help. > > They are real, but for other complete beginners, and I must say that that > number is countless, Scribus is very easy to use. I've had so many people > tell me how easy it is to pick up.. > > Perhaps what might come of this discussion is a way to reconcile the > differences between those complete beginners that do get and those that > don't. > > This, as the general open source software paradigms go, will require some > work > by those interested. Those that are not interested will simply have to wait > until someone else has some time. > > Let me say this very clearly, the Scribus team is open to any reasonable > suggestion (given the boundaries of time, technology and our internal plans). > We welcome discussions such as this but there are only so many hours in the > day, luckily we are helped by many translators, wiki maintainers, general > contributors. Please, feel more than welcome to make suggestions, in a > clearly thought out way. Perhaps you would write up a doc and send it to us, > write a wiki article, perhaps and with some diagrams. This isn't required for > all requests, but it seems there are many thoughts involved with this > particular discussion and those that have the ideas should get them down in a > communicable fashion. > > Craig > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
