[scribus] ANNOUNCEMENT: Scribus - The Official Manual is now available for sale!

[Gregory Pittman]

Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 14:34:54 JLuc wrote:
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>> Philipp Klaus Krause a écrit :
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>>> Gregory Pittman schrieb:
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>>>> To all list subscribers:
>>>>
>>>> The long-anticipated official manual is now available for pre-release
>>>> sales [...]
>>>>         
>>> Which version of Scribus is documented inthe book?
>>>       
The book covers the 1.3.3.x versions of Scribus. We look forward to the 
second edition for the next stable series, but even now, it would not be 
possible to complete such a book due to the changing nature of 1.3.5svn. 
This having been said, many basic operations in Scribus are much the 
same in 1.3.5svn, so this first edition will remain valuable.
>> was this book produced with Scribus ?
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>>     
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> Yes, it was. :)
>   
Just to amplify a bit -- we had a host of people involved in the 
content, with Christoph and I doing much of it, as well as some 
rewriting and editing to try to have a reasonably consistent style for 
the book. Christoph took this and imported to openoffice.org, where 
styles were applied. The layout was then done in Scribus, and like we 
have advised so many times, 20-30 page PDFs were created (to be combined 
later), with import of text from ODT files with their styles. There was, 
of course, a large number of screenshots, and making sure these were of 
sufficient quality for a printed book. While we would have liked to have 
had some color, the cost was prohibitive. Meanwhile, all of this ODT 
work and final layout was done by Christoph (a gargantuan task), with 
Louis Desjardins and myself in charge of serial proofreadings of 
original content, again with ODT files, and yet again with PDFs.

In the end, I was quite pleased not just with the content, but the 
readability of the final work in comparison with many other software 
manuals I have read (or tried to read).

Greg