Dear Scribus users, How time flies ... Yesterday evening Franz mentioned in passing that he started writing Scribus exactly ten years ago, and as we all know, his baby is no longer a baby and has grown considerably. Peter will publish some memories of the early days of Scribus development on our developer blog (rants.scribus.net) tomorrow.
While we all certainly wished that 1.4 would have been released on this occasion, this will have to wait a few weeks or months longer. In the meantime I have a smaller birthday present for the subscribers of this list. The British publisher Packt Publishing has just released an English version of Cedric Gemy's Scribus Beginner's Guide (https://www.packtpub.com/scribus-1-3-5-beginners-guide/book), which covers Scribus 1.3.5 and hence 1.3.6--1.4+ as well. The book is available in print and as an eBook. As some of you know, Cedric is a long-term contributor to Scribus and an experienced lecturer on graphics design at various French universities. Subscribers to the Scribus mailing list are being offered a 20% discount off the book price. To buy the book at the reduced price, you need a Packt account and insert a password, which is SCRIBG20 (case sensitive), to the shopping cart. As for the rest of you who don't need a Scribus book, open a bottle of champagne and celebrate with us. Cheers, Christoph
