i'm a beginner at using scribus and i'm having second thoughts.
i need to layout a 50-page magazine, quite simply; it would have a cover with four different pages and then only a couple of other page types to lay out the rest of the material. i came to scribus after trying microsoft word, apple pages and freeway express.
i am having a great deal of difficulty with it, partly, i think, because i am using version 1.4.1 and online manual is for 1.3 and many of the screens are different (i'm using a mac running snow leopard).
so -- will it help me to go back to 1.3?
or am i perhaps in over my head. i am not a professional designer, i'm a writer, and i don't want to lay out a lot of magazines, only one (at least for now).
i have had experience working on magazines and in magazine production. i understand scribus's emphasis on layout and the reason for its rudimentary word processing. i still have a lot trouble entering text and images and getting them to stay put.
how steep is the learning curve here?
thanks for any tips --
cliff