[scribus] Basic tutorial on creating poster in Portable Scribus

[Gregory Pittman]

Murray Strome wrote:
> Have you looked at the tutorial that is downloadable from:
>
> http://www.oliveroot.net/Scribus/Getting_Started_With_Scribus_2008/
>
> This is NOT for the poster, but hopefully, it will help you understand the terminology. I knew absolutely nothing about Scribus in particular, nor Desktop Publishing (DTP) in general when I started working with Nigel to prepare this revised tutorial, so I was coming at it from the perspective of a complete novice. The tutorials are in OpenOffice format. The ZIP file contains the both tutorials and all the files mentioned in the tutorial.
>
>  Getting_Started_A4.odt Getting_Started_Letter.odt Getting_Started_With_Scribus_2008.zip README.txt md5sums.txt
> I hope this is helpful to you.
>
> Murray
>
> --- On Thu, 8/28/08, hpskalra at gmail.com <hpskalra at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: hpskalra at gmail.com <hpskalra at gmail.com>
> Subject: [scribus] Basic tutorial on creating poster in Portable Scribus
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 3:07 AM
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am totally new to any desktop publishing software and to scribus. I want
> to create a poster on A0 size using portable scribus. Kindly let me know
> of any tutorials that explaining its terminology,  and also on using basic
> features for creating posters. I would prefer the ones that explain in
> non-technical simple language rather than technical jargon.
>   
I don't know that there is anything so much special about a poster 
versus other projects one might do with Scribus. Because of the size of 
what you're doing you need to pay particular attention to the final 
resolution (DPI) of any images. Whenever possible, vector graphics is 
preferable to bitmap.

In general, it's good for newbies to check out the official docs site, 
and also the wiki:

http://docs.scribus.net/
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Main_Page

Greg