News 2010-12-08

This week Packt published the‎ Scribus 1.3.5 beginner’s guide, covering Scribus 1.3.5, which means its content is applicable to Scribus 1.3.6–1.4+ as well.

The Beginner’s Guide, which is 316 pages long, is a step-by-step guide that employs interesting examples and many screenshots. The book can help you create visually pleasing documents of excellent output quality without having to learn the hundreds of options and features available in Scribus.

The book is available in print and as an eBook.

About the author

Cedric Gémy is a French freelance graphic designer and an experienced lecturer of graphic design. He’s also a long-term contributor to the Scribus project.

About Packt

Packt is a modern publishing company, producing cutting-edge books and eBooks for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike.

Packt Open Source books will continue to be built around the “community experience distilled” motto, focussing on taking real advice from the community around projects, and refining and distilling it into easy to follow specialist information.

Packt believes in Open Source and helping to sustain and support its unique projects and communities. Therefore, when a book written on an open source project is being sold, a royalty will be paid directly to that project. As a result of purchasing one of the Open Source books, Packt will have given some of the money received to the Open Source project.