Sravani Mudumbi a ?crit : > > Hi. I am new to this forum. I am a beginner user of scribus. I actually > just started using it about two months ago, which is when I subscribed > to this mailing list. All of the questions that I usually see in the > mails are much more complicated than what I am working with. my > questions may sound stupid. I am trying to make a school newspaper with > Scribus. Although I'm not very computer savvy, I've managed to put it > together. I've had many questions during the time I was still > learning how to use it and I still am. I figured I'd save all of my > questions to the end. I'm almost done with it now. here they are: > > (1) How can I shape the text of an article around a picture?
This is a feature to come. There are workarounds. I would ask that you browse the wiki and/or this list archives to find more. Basically, you can edit the shape of the content of an image in Properties > Shape > Edit Shape and ask Scribus to make the text flow around this shape instead of around the bounding box itself. > > (2) What's up with the pictures? Why is not letting me put pictures I've > obtained from the internet? I understand that they have to be of a > certain quality for scribus to support them. Well what can I do in my case? What do you mean exactly? Scribus can import lots of pics formats. To get a pic into Scribus you need to draw a picture frame and then right click on it and go to the "get image" contextual menu. > > (3) How can make the first letter of an article big, big enough to match > three lines of the article. Like you see in the newspapers? This is called a drop cap and is readily available from the Paragraph Stylesheet menu. There, you can specify the number of lines for your drop caps. > > (4) When writing an article, I usually put the title in a separate text > box, just so that the spacing problems would be avoided and I can move > it around to how much ever space i want between the title and the text. > Is there a way that I put the text and title in one box and make it a > bit easier or is it just not possible? It actually depends on your layout. With stylesheets, you can put a header in the same frame as the text. But this header will have to be the same width as the text. Otherwise, use 2 separate text frames. There is no other way. > > (5) Sometimes when I'm working on Scribus for more than say 2 hours, it > goes into a crazy mode, where it doesn't let me click on anything. If i > click on the text box, it'll automatically let me edit it, which it > doesn't normally do. If i click outside it, there's the 'move object' > cursor that just appears and doesn't let me make changes to to the box. > It wont let you select the object. What can I do to fix this problem? Do you save your work regularly (every 5-10 minutes?)... Otherwise, someone else on this list will help you on this one. :) > > I dont have the facility to work with scribus everywhere i go, because > the computer I have at my school doesn't let me install new programs on > it. They use many publishing programs themselves. But I've already grown > accustomed to Scribus. I know that I could convert it into pdf and then > print it out over there. But i wouldn't be able to make changes to it, > if I see something wrong with the print (without having to come back to > my computer, etc). In order to print it out at the copy center is there > a way I can open the document in microsoft publisher and make changes to > it. There is no way to do that. > > I hope that is not too many questions at once. Just fine! > > i'd greatly appreciate any response HTH > > Sravani M. Louis > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 http://www.mardigrafe.com
