<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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? <div><br></div><div>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 "edit image" - that is what led to the error message about Gimp.<div><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/10/10, Grzegorz Staniak <i><gstaniak@wp.pl></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak@wp.pl><br>Subject: [scribus] Odp: Help - need a tutorial for "dummies" - ie: newbies<br>To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus@lists.scribus.info><br>Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 4:42 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On 10-12-2010 at 22:12
<a ymailto="mailto:randy.pare@rogers.com" href="/mc/compose?to=randy.pare@rogers.com">randy.pare@rogers.com</a> wrote:<br><br>> I am utterly lost. The controls [for an MS Word<br>> guy, like me] do not seem intuitive. Simple things like importing a<br>> picture and manipulating its size to fit on the page seem impossible.<br><br>One piece of advice from someone who quite recently was a total noob <br>too: ALWAYS keep the Properties Palette visible. Always. It really <br>helps. Check what it shows, use it to position, scale, and set <br>properties on objects. Also: use and explore the "Window" menu (for <br>alignment and distribution, for example).<br><br>> An image comes in and there doesn't seem to be anyway to alter size.<br><br>See above. Press F2, use the Properties Palette (the "Image" section).<br><br>> I receive articles, poetry shorts stories all writtne on MS Word and <br>would like to import the docs and<br>>
place them over background art etc etc. <br><br>Create a text frame, right click, "Get text". First you need to convert <br>the articles though.<br><br>> What I am hoping to learn is this:<br>> <br>> How to use Scribus to create a document that has<br>> artistic backgrounds with text and other art on top, that I can then<br>> convert to PDF.<br> <br>... and it would be best for you, I think, to spare a few bucks for the <br>book:<br><br><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/scribus-1-3-5-beginners-guide/book" target="_blank">https://www.packtpub.com/scribus-1-3-5-beginners-guide/book</a><br><br>You can even get a discount if you scan the group archive for the 10th <br>anniversary email ;)<br><br>> BTW I have read the READ ME file and BASICs tutorial that come with <br>Scribus - just could not find answers to what I am<br>> asking there.<br><br>Ask here then.<br><br>GS<br>--<br>Grzegorz Staniak, gstaniak _at_ wp *dot*
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