It?s done !!! The stable release of Scribus 1.2 is out and I`d like to thank the devel team for there great work in the past 12 month.
I am on the way with Scribus (and Layout in general) since Scribus 0.9.x and if I look back to the days when Scribus crashed permanantly with a 30 pages school magazin (after having 90% of the work done) and I finaly had to do the whole magazin with OpenOffice in 48 hours.... But that`s history now and with the very improved story editor (was born after 1.0 release or though) and the great pdf support, it is a very powerful DTP program for most tasks. The last year was very exciting for me, too. I`m in my third Linux year and with the Scribus devel team I experienced how powerful the open source community is with the possibility to fill bug reports or discuss this or that directly with the developer. And I have the first steps in DTP behind me, of cause beeing far away from a perfectly skilled publisher. Today, I`m teaching young people how to publish there magazins in workshops organized by the youth press organizations in Germany. OK, keep the great work on - I am waiting for the great new features of Scribus 1.4 (my favorite: import text from OpenOffice native text documents with all the format tags). The redesign of the homepage looks very nice, too and for sure Franz will find many people on aKademy who are very surprised about the quality of Scribus. Regards, Sebastian
