On 10-12-2010 at 22:12 randy.pare at rogers.com wrote: > I am utterly lost. The controls [for an MS Word > guy, like me] do not seem intuitive. Simple things like importing a > picture and manipulating its size to fit on the page seem impossible.
One piece of advice from someone who quite recently was a total noob too: ALWAYS keep the Properties Palette visible. Always. It really helps. Check what it shows, use it to position, scale, and set properties on objects. Also: use and explore the "Window" menu (for alignment and distribution, for example). > An?image comes in and there doesn't seem to be anyway to alter size. See above. Press F2, use the Properties Palette (the "Image" section). > I receive articles, poetry shorts stories all writtne on MS Word and would like to import the?docs and > place them over background art etc etc.? Create a text frame, right click, "Get text". First you need to convert the articles though. > What I am hoping to learn is this: > ? > How to use Scribus to create a document that has > artistic backgrounds with text and other art on top, that I can then > convert to PDF. ... and it would be best for you, I think, to spare a few bucks for the book: https://www.packtpub.com/scribus-1-3-5-beginners-guide/book You can even get a discount if you scan the group archive for the 10th anniversary email ;) > BTW I have read the READ ME file and BASICs tutorial that come with Scribus - just could not find answers to what I am > asking there. Ask here then. GS -- Grzegorz Staniak, gstaniak _at_ wp *dot* pl
