[scribus] Help - need a tutorial for "dummies" - ie: newbies

2010-12-10 Thread randy.p...@rogers.com
Hi, really sorry to bug you guys. My name is r. j. par? and I have been putting out an art - lit e-zine {RKYV ONLINE} for years using MS Word for all my layouts.? I know, I know it is a word processing program with limitations in regards to page layout. ? That said I have decide to learn how to

[scribus] Odp: Help - need a tutorial for "dummies" - ie: newbies

2010-12-10 Thread randy.p...@rogers.com
One of the main problems I am finding is that Scribus keeps saying I can't do anything with an image because I don't have Gimp. Is Gimp necessary to run Scribus?? To alter size of an image, since there don't seem to be the easy "grab" points MS Word has, I tried going thru menus until I found "e

[scribus] Can scribus page/canvas default resolution be lowered?

2010-12-11 Thread randy.p...@rogers.com
Once again, forgive my intrusion - this stuff is hard to learn. Okay, the document I am attempting to create, using scribus, is NOT intended for printing. It will be a PDF shared over the web [an e-zine]. Until now I have always done my layouts using MS Word and am trying to learn DTP software s