That is a very good explanation and a good starting point for those who want to try scribus. Could you post it up on the wiki under Tips?
Jean --- jwminer at accessvt.com a ?crit : > Roger wrote: > > 7. E-X-P-E-R-I-M-E-N-T, it works a treat and you > will achieve more > > in a > > couple of hours on one page than all the help > files ever written. > > A good way to learn to use Scribus is to recreate > with Scribus a > project you originally produced with another > program. Before you do > anything else, look through the menus--every > item--so you see what's > available. Explore Properties. One of the first > things to do is go > through File menu, Preferences--every one of them. > If you can't > figure out how to do something, look first in Help > menu, Scribus > Manual. If it's not installed, download it and > install it. (I can't > remember if it's automatically included now.) If you > still can't > find an answer for your situation, go to the Wiki. > Go through the > links under "navigation" under the Scribus logo on > the first page of > the Wiki. There is a ton of detailed information > there. If questions > remain, ask on this list. > > We learn to use programs by *using them*. Tutorials > are helpful, but > ultimately we have to work on our own project and > that's where we > really learn. Scribus is one of the > better-documented open source > programs right now, and this will get even better. > > Using computers is NOT intuitive. If it seems so, > it's only because > we're used to the way a particular interface works. > > I'm not keen on templates and I don't see a reason > why a > professional program like Scribus needs templates. > If you're a > professional, you don't need a template. You > probably won't like one > anyway. Also, you don't want your document to look > like someone > else's--why would your client need a designer in the > first place if > a template would do the job? If you're an amateur, > choosing to use > Scribus means you want your work to be on a higher > level. In that > case, develop the design skills you need before you > dabble in DTP. > There are no shortcuts to knowing what you're doing. > > It is amazing and thrilling to see what Scribus is > becoming. > --Judy Miner ___________________________________________________________________________ D?couvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quelque soit le sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/R?ponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos exp?riences. http://fr.answers.yahoo.com
