Craig Bradney wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2008 14:34:54 JLuc wrote: > >> Philipp Klaus Krause a ?crit : >> >>> Gregory Pittman schrieb: >>> >>>> 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 ? >> >> > > 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
