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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009519 | Scribus | Documentation | public | 2010-11-23 22:07 | 2011-10-03 18:42 |
| Reporter | christoph_s | Assigned To | christoph_s | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 1.3.9.svn | ||||
| Target Version | 1.4.1 | Fixed in Version | 1.4.0svn | ||
| Summary | 0009519: Required documentation updates for 1.4 | ||||
| Description | Here's a list of files that are in urgent need of an update: Under "Setup": - fonts1.html - fonts2.html - gsfont.html - fonts3.html - fonts4.html - fonts5.html - fonts-win32.html General thoughts on this section: 1) We need a short explanation of font types and their levels of support in Scribus (I'm willing to write the general introduction, because I can use an article I wrote for Linux Magazin as a starting point). 2) This section ought to be really cross-platform, i.e. we need to cover all platforms. Currently, much of the content is Linux/UNIX-only, with an appendix for Windows. 3) As for Linux/UNIX, both KDE and Gnome should be treated equally. Under "PDF Export": - pdfexport1.html - pdfexport2.html - pdflavor.html - pdfx3.html - pdfexport3.html - javascriptpdf.html - pdf_form.html - pdfexport4.html This section needs considerably less work than the previous one and will be more of a clean-up. A few personal suggestions: 1) Let's call it "Export" and focus on PDF export, but we should also add information on SVG, EPS, PostScript, bitmap and text export. 2) As with the previous section, I'd like to see a short general introduction on export formats and output targets in general, and PostScript/PDF in particular. Under "Printing": - print2.html - cups.html - print3.html - prepress.html This section may need some restructuring, as it doesn't separate clearly between the average user's inkjet/laser printer, printing on a high-level PostScript printer and commercial printing. Also, it's no cross-platform documentation, and finally, I think we should be honest enough to tell our users that direct printing from Scribus may not work at all. As for the file prepress.html, it contains a link to a PDF file: http://docs.scribus.net/content/en/pdfs/pre-press.pdf. This file is incredibly old and should be replaced! Under "Color Management": - cms.html - cms1.html - cms2.html - cms3.html - cms4.html - moncal.html Another candidate for clean-ups and an update, but it also needs to cover all or at least the most popular platforms (*nix, Windows, Mac OS). OS/2 can be added later (if there is something valuable to add). I know, this looks like a lot of work (and it probably is), but we're now paying the price for neglecting the documentation for years. There's a lot of content that can be reserved for the printed manual, but I think the 1.4 release deserves to be current after such a long development cycle, at least with respect to the English docs. Translations can then be added to the minor releases. | ||||
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Hi, If you speak french, you can probably inspire from the Floss Manual here : http://fr.flossmanuals.net/Scribus/Introduction It's licenced CC-by-sa and GPL v2. best regards |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2010-11-23 22:07 | christoph_s | New Issue | |
| 2010-11-23 22:07 | christoph_s | Status | new => assigned |
| 2010-11-23 22:07 | christoph_s | Assigned To | => plinnell |
| 2010-11-23 22:11 |
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Product Version | => 1.3.9.svn |
| 2011-04-16 10:03 | cbradney | Target Version | 1.4.0 => 1.4.1 |
| 2011-09-20 12:23 | yagraph | Note Added: 0026895 | |
| 2011-10-03 18:42 | cbradney | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2011-10-03 18:42 | cbradney | Assigned To | plinnell => christoph_s |
| 2011-10-03 18:42 | cbradney | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2011-10-03 18:42 | cbradney | Fixed in Version | => 1.4.0svn |
