Doc talk:2.4/Reference/QuickStart

For people interested in improving this: this document was originally done in InDesign, but I exported it to svg. It looks allright to me in Inkscape, just the text is cut up in hundreds of pieces, so that needs fixing to be able to use it for redistribution. Furthermore, the headers are embedded JPG's, I suggest they should be converted to JPG...

I think a more compatible format (than InDesign) is a must, so please feel free to help!

the SVG is here: Media:Quickstart_Guide.svg.zip--Ewout 23:15, 22 January 2006 (CET)

Scribus port

Okay so as Ewout requested I finished the Scribus port for him of the InDesign document. It's mostly the same. Be sure to read the Editor Readme file before editing/translating.

QuickStart 2.41 Scribus English

Apart from the regular linux releases, scribus is available for Windows and Mac OSX too!

*I've only extensively used it in Linux, so I cannot tell about Windows, and I do not have access to the Mac version. I have tested it only very slightly (> 1 hour) on Windows and got only mitigated results, but I might be slightly biased.

--Pierre-Luc Auclair 09:10, 22 February 2006 (CET)

Additional Notes on the Scribus port

I forgot to add that this version of the document was produced on Scribus 1.3.3CVS from February 14th. I cannot ensure that it will look the same on previous versions of the software. I suggest you get the latest CVS version available from either SourceForge or Scribus.net, their versions are pretty much as stable or more stable than 1.3.2 and contain A LOT of bugfixes.

--Pierre-Luc Auclair 16:57, 22 February 2006 (CET)

Important Notice Regarding Current (7.0.5) Adobe Viewer and PDF 1.4 & 1.5

I was informed today after much struggle that the Acrobat PDF Viewer for Linux and (maybe!) the Windows version have problems viewing documents with embeded images. Basically the color managements goes nuts and displays everything in a totally incorrect way.

We have 2 options right now: 1. We can stick to PDF 1.3, but it does not support transparency on images (or at all, I am not sure). So that poses some workflow problems depending on what we're doing...

2. We can still use PDF 1.4 and 1.5, and it will display correctly in Adobe PDF Viewer 5, 6, 7Mac, KGhostView, etc...

I'm still not sure how to deal with that... all I can say is a big f... y.. to Adobe for being so supportive.

--Pierre-Luc Auclair 03:01, 23 February 2006 (CET)

Translation of Quickstart Guide

Swedish

I've begun translation on this guide to swedish.

A first draft: QuickStart 2.41 Scribus Swedish

--styken 12:19, 6 April 2006 (CEST)

Just a note about the English version:

ctrl-numpad 0 changes camera to be active rather than just numpad 0. numpad 0 just changes the 3D viewport to look from the active camera.

--BeBraw 17:34, 13 April 2006 (GMT+3)

Polish

I've just started translation of this guide into Polish and will publish it in a day.

--Maciek R. 8:59, 29 April 2006 (CEST)

Errata

Intrr made some nice suggestions and found some mistakes in the QuickStart guide. Please change what you feel worth changing :)

Section 1) Blender's interface consists of one workspace with multiple windows => Blender's interface consists of an arbitrary number of workspaces with multiple windows each

Section 1) You can set the current layout as default with CTRL-U => You can save the current layout (including the complete scene) as default with CTRL-U

Section 3) Button categorie => Button category

Section 4) You can change the center position in the object buttons/object properties => You can change the center position in the editbuttons

Section 6) tranform -> transform

Section 7) betweet -> between

Section 8) To easily show and hide and group -> to easily show, hide and group

Section 9) To activate a camera, select it and press Numpad0 -> To activate a camera, select it and press CTRL-Numpad0

All sections All occurences of "it's" -> "its"

Upper ^ mistakes looks fixed, but there are still mistakes -> wrong icon naming in Section 3) --Igor 12:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Update to 2.42

I did the corrections suggested in Errata and added a bunch of my own. The Scribus version of the quickstart can be found at QuickStart 2.42 Scribus English. The only issue I couldn't fix was the header. It is still 2.41.

--BeBraw 16:13, 6 December 2006 (CET)