2012/1/25 Michal Hlavatę <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hlavaty.michal@gmail.com">hlavaty.michal@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.<br></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br>According to SourceForge:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">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.<br></div><br><div style="margin-left:40px">
<strong>26,399</strong> weekly downloads
<br></div><br>Over a year at that average, that is way over a million downloads. Not bad!<br><br>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!<br>
<br>Cheers and good work!<br><br>Louis<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<br>What should the new tutorial content?<br><ul><li>Step by step HOW-TOs of features.</li><li>Rules for typical documents - flyers, presentations, magazines, books... would be useful because quite a lot Scribus users are beginners in DTP.</li>
<li>Complete tutorial of creating template (master pages, scrapbook elements, styles...).<br></li><li>New 1.4 features (render frames, word tracking, etc.).<br></li></ul>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.<br>
<br><b>Note to the Scribus 1.4.0 tutorials</b>:<br>In Czech language and then in English, I will write two documents in PDF - tutorials, but really basic. <br><ul><li>2page (A4, landscape), basic description of UI, features, shortcuts (something like <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Reference/QuickStart" target="_blank">this</a>)<br>
</li><li>24page (A4, portrait), description of features (short HOW-TOs). It will be based on <a href="http://www.scribus.cz/stahnout/dokumentace/manual_Scribus.pdf" target="_blank">this Scribus manual</a>.<br></li></ul><p>
The Czech version of the first one will be available 1st February. I will than send English version with source files.</p>
<p>The second one I will create as soon as possible, perhaps at the middle of February (Czech version). English will be created after that.<br></p><p>MIke<br>
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