On 10/7/11 2:24 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > On 10/6/2011 3:29 PM, ale rimoldi wrote: >> hi >> >> a mail from the past... >> >>>> You guys are all saying that NEW users should download the 1.4RC5 >>>> to start with, but there is no tutorial based on that version while >>>> there is a tutorial based on the 1.3.3.14 version. >> >> there are many others reasons which makes me suggest to use 1.4RC5. >> >> the three most important reasons are >> - 1.4RC5 is already more stable than 1.3.3.14 >> - nobody who does (free) support for scribus has 1.3.3.14 installed, so >> no chance to get some help with it >> - when the 1.3.3.14 people hit a problem, they're very deceived to hear >> that there is no chance to see it fixed, expect waiting for 1.4 (they >> mostly don't understand why, since 1.3.14 is the stable and 1.4 is >> not the stable!) >> >>>> I, being a >>>> brand new user, find that I need both versions, because if I don't >>>> find the elements mentioned in the tutorial where it says they are, >>>> then I am lost. >>>> >>>> It is, after all, the NEW user who has the most need for a tutorial. >>> >>> Honestly, in my experience, the quickest way to find out how to do >>> something (or whether it's even supported at all) is Google. I've >>> never even used the Scribus tutorial. >> >> there is the help in scribus which is mostly available by pressing the >> F1 key (the "working with" chapters could replace a tutorial)... but >> indeed no tutorial. >> >> but anybody could port that tutorial to 1.4... i don't think it such a >> huge task. >> (personally, i don't like that tutorial: so it's not me who will port >> it... but i could translate in english the "hands on" chapter i wrote >> for the scribus manual in french: >> http://fr.flossmanuals.net/Scribus/PriseEnMain ; is there any interest?) >> >> > > I would definitely be interested. > in?
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