Hello Ken et al<br><br>It is a good valid point that has been made that with OSS you have to accept that you have to shell out for a few manuals. The manuals are of course a fraction of the price that you would have to pay commercially for the software. From experience (I was a print broker back in the 90's) a decent DTP with the facilities of Scribus costs hundreds of pounds and if you were playing commercially of course you are talking about subscribing to the regular program update packs, font libraries and colour profiles. In comparison Scribus which has greatly impressed me so far has cost me just over £23 !! That is nowt for the program and £23 for a manual. I am currently reading 'Scribus The Official Manual' by Gregory Pittman, Christoph Schafer et al. This covers 1.3.3.12+ with some usefull info about future versions. Price quoted was from Amazon and included P&p. ISBN is 978-0-9560780-0-1<br>
<br>Although it is slightly off subject someone mentioned Open Office manuals. I have used Beginning OpenOffice 3 by Andy Channelle. It was £28.49 from Waterstones but will probably be available 'new and used' on Amazon for a fraction of that. ISBN is 978-1-4302-1590-5<br>
<br>BTW it would probably be appreciated when people are talking about books/manuals on this digest if they quoted ISBN's so we know if we are thinking of the same publications.<br><br>Ivan Winters<br>