[scribus-dev] interest in new tutorial?

[Louis Desjardins]

2012/1/25 Michal Hlavatý <hlavaty.michal at gmail.com>

> I think the new version of basic tutorial or a new one is really needed.
> The lack of some up-to-date tutorial is one of reason why Scribus doesn't
> expand as quick as it could.
>

According to SourceForge:

Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to
Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows. Scribus supports professional
features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and robust
commercial grade PDF.

*26,399* weekly downloads

Over a year at that average, that is way over a million downloads. Not bad!

I am not trying to prove you wrong and to diminish the importance of a good
pu-to-date tutorial. This number doesn't tell anything about the use of the
software. At least we have a sense of what the crowd is over there!

Cheers and good work!

Louis



> What should the new tutorial content?
>
>    - Step by step HOW-TOs of features.
>    - Rules for typical documents - flyers, presentations, magazines,
>    books... would be useful because quite a lot Scribus users are beginners in
>    DTP.
>    - Complete tutorial of creating template (master pages, scrapbook
>    elements, styles...).
>    - New 1.4 features (render frames, word tracking, etc.).
>
> I am afraid I am not able to help with writing but I will translate the
> new tutorial to the Czech language or find someone who will do it.
> Personally I think there will find more people who will localize the new
> tutorial into their native languages. The reason why they didn't do it so
> far is that the branch 1.3.3 is very old and localizing such tutorial is
> (in some sense) waste of time.
>
> *Note to the Scribus 1.4.0 tutorials*:
> In Czech language and then in English, I will write two documents in PDF -
> tutorials, but really basic.
>
>    - 2page (A4, landscape), basic description of UI, features, shortcuts
>    (something like this<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Reference/QuickStart>
>    )
>    - 24page (A4, portrait), description of features (short HOW-TOs). It
>    will be based on this Scribus manual<http://www.scribus.cz/stahnout/dokumentace/manual_Scribus.pdf>
>    .
>
> The Czech version of the first one will be available 1st February. I will
> than send English version with source files.
>
> The second one I will create as soon as possible, perhaps at the middle of
> February (Czech version). English will be created after that.
>
> MIke
>
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