[scribus] Tutorial

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:34:36 -0500
Dale Erwin <dale at casaerwin.org> wrote:

> I am brand new to Scribus (ver. 1.3.3.14 under WinXP SP2) and have
> been trying to go thru the tutorial for beginners to acquaint myself
> with the program.
> 
> I didn't get too far before a problem arose.  I defined the first
> page according to the instructions OK, but when trying to insert the
> image frame for the cover photo, in the properties box, I enter
> X-Pos: 0.000 mm, Y-Pos: 0.000 mm, Width: 210.000 mm, and all is well,
> then when I enter Height: 280.000 mm and when I tab out of this field
> the Width is changed by the program to 208.855 mm.
> 
> There is no mention of this in the tutorial and subsequent images in
> the tutorial continue to show that Properties box with the 210.000
> and 280.000 dimensions.
> 
> Thinking I may have done something wrong and not being very far into
> the tutorial, I deleted the entire thing and started anew with the
> same results.  What have I done wrong?
> 

Can't address this problem directly. But the so-called "stable" version
you are using is years obsolete and no one is working on it. Any
defects it has it has forever. The version 1.4.0rc5 is what most of us
are using. Some users still prefer earlier developmental versions in the
series 1.3.5 through 1.3.9.

Here is a quote from the Scribus download web page:
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Current developmental version is 1.4.0 RC5. This is the fifth release
candidate for the 1.4.0 version. It's sufficiently stable for many
people to run in production environments, but beware of bugs that might
still be there. Report any problems in our bug tracking system. 
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It is in fact the new stable in everything but name. I suggest you move
up to it. Then if a problem occurs someone can assist you better. 

I use two versions: 1.4.0RC 5 and 1.5.0. The latter has one feature I
must have for my work, the output of a document in PDF X/1-a:2001
format. I develop in 1.4.0 RC5 and then load the sla file in 1.5.0 for the final file
creation. 

-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html