<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi, really sorry to bug you guys. My name is r. j.
paré and I have been putting out an art - lit e-zine {RKYV ONLINE} for years
using MS Word for all my layouts. </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">I know, I know it is a word processing program
with limitations in regards to page layout.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">That said I have decide to learn how to use page
layout software. I downloaded Scribus after reading good reviews and have decide
to give it a try. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I am utterly lost. The controls [for an MS Word
guy, like me] do not seem intuitive. Simple things like importing a picture and
manipulating its size to fit on the page seem impossible. An image comes in and
there doesn't seem to be anyway to alter size. I receive articles, poetry shorts
stories all writtne on MS Word and would like to import the docs and place them
over background art etc etc. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Frankly I can't figure it out at all. LOL With MS
Word, I have limitations - but I can do all these things I have just mentioned
[just not as well as I hoped a layout program like Scribus would
allow].</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Here is a link to back issues of my e-zine to get
an idea of what I am talking about:</font></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.scribd.com/randy_par%C3%A9/shelf">http://www.scribd.com/randy_par%C3%A9/shelf</a></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">What I am hoping to learn is this:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">How to use Scribus to create a document that has
artistic backgrounds with text and other art on top, that I can then convert to
PDF.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Could someone steer me to a guide for such things?
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">BTW I have read the READ ME file and BASICs
tutorial that come with Scribus - just could not find answers to what I am
asking there.</font></div></td></tr></table>