Many thanks to The Scribus Team! Renato Petrovi?, Belgrade, Serbia
2012/1/2 Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> > > Hi > > We'd like to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.0 with the below > information about the release, > please also see http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.0_Release for the > coloured wiki format. > > Thanks > Craig > > > Scribus 1.4.0 Released > ====================== > > After almost 4 years of intensive work, the Scribus Team (www.scribus.net) > has released the new > stable version 1.4.0 of the Open Source desktop publishing program > Scribus. Given this is the first > major stable release in some time, this document outlines improvements > over the last number of > versions, rather than since just the last one. The idea is to form a > general comparison between > this and the last stable release. > > In summary, more than 2000 feature requests and bugs have been resolved > since the development of > this new version started. > > > Major changes and improvements in comparison to the last stable version > 1.3.3.14 are: > > - 1.4.0 is based on the Qt4 application framework. The initial > transition from Qt3 was performed > quite quickly, but fine tuning for cross-platform compatibility and > taking advantage of new > features took quite some time. As a result, Scribus now runs equally > reliable on all supported > platforms. > - Thanks to the port to Qt4, the Scribus Team now also provides install > files for Mac OS X 10.5 > or later, as well as a native version for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation. > Additionally, thanks to > feedback from users of other UNIX platforms, Scribus will build and > run on more of those > platforms as well. > - Feature enhancements to object handling (e.g. transform tools like in > advanced drawing > programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook > and the Image Manager. > - Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles, > optical margins, or > glyph extension. Undo/Redo is finally available for almost all > text-related actions, and a new > script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation > marks based on language > settings. Usability improvements include better cursor placement and > movement, faster layout > on canvas and interaction between linked frames. > - New features for vector objects, like Boolean path operations, vector > effects or a line style > editor. > - Major improvements to the handling of fills, like pattern fill, more > gradient types, support > for external color palette formats (AI, EPS, GPL, PostScript, SOC), > and many new color > palettes, including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp > studio, as well as > national/government standards. > - A new frame type called "Render Frame" allows for rendering (and > subsequently export) the > output of every program that can create PostScript, PDF or PNG files > via the command > line (e.g. LaTeX, Lilypond, POV-Ray) inside Scribus. The initial > version of which was > developed as a project for Google Summer of Code and this project has > developed to allow > import of externally produced documents, scientific publications and > formulas. More renderers > can be added with a simple configuration file. > - Vector import filters: Scribus 1.4.0 provides new import filters for > the following file > formats: Adobe Illustrator (both EPS and PDF-based), Macintosh Picture > (PICT), > Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), > Kivio Stencils (SML), > and DIA Shapes (SHAPE). > - Regarding bitmap images, the handling of Photoshop files has seen many > major improvements, > like support of multiple clipping paths or PSD layers. The Image > Manager has been rewritten, > and new non-destructive image effects have been added. Moreover, > Scribus 1.4.0 now supports > EXIF data in images, and import of Windows and OS/2 bitmaps (BMP) has > been re-enabled. > - Among the major enhancements to Scribus's pre-press features, printing > marks and the display > of ink coverage in the Print Preview are the most important. In > addition, Scribus now enables > conversion of spot colors to process colors during PDF and PostScript > export with a single > click. > - PDF export has seen major improvements as well. Scribus can now export > to PDF 1.5, including > PDF layers. Another new feature is the option to embed EPS and PDF > files in exported PDFs as > an alternative to rasterizing them. Also, both font embedding and > substitution have been > improved. > - For color management, Scribus 1.4.0 now supports both littleCMS > version 1 and 2. It's also > possible to enable color management with a single click from the main > window. > - Additionally, the Scribus Team has added a feature to emulate color > blindness on screen. > - Hundreds of minor and major usability improvements have been added. > - The included scripts have been updated, including the addition of the > "Autoquote" script in > the Script menu to convert straight quotes in a text frame to correct > quotation marks for > many languages. > - Scribus 1.4.0 is being shipped with many more templates than previous > versions. > - The content of the Help System has been rewritten and updated. > > Now that Scribus 1.4.0 has been released, the Scribus Team will focus on > stabilizing the 1.5 > development branch, which will comprise amazing new features like support > for PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-4 > and PDF/E, Mesh Gradients, native PDF import, XAR import, a completely > rewritten table > implementation, a rewritten text system, and much more. The 1.4.x version > is now in > stable/maintenance mode, which means few features will be backported from > the 1.5 development > branch. In general, only bugs will be fixed in subsequent 1.4.x versions, > along with new content, > like new translations, new templates, or additional color palettes. > > > Important Information > ===================== > > If you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team members use > the same Scribus version > ? this will avoid many headaches and extra work. > > Users should be warned that 1.3.3.x cannot open 1.4.0 files. > > The Scribus Team recommends that all distributions package Scribus 1.4.0 > as "Scribus" (and replace > the outdated Scribus 1.3.3.14). > > The 1.4.x branch will now be developed in the Version14x branch of our > Subversion repository, > leaving the Version135 one behind. This also fixes the version numbering > issues of the past, with > just two main versions, 1.4.x and 1.5.x > > The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements > in the development > branch 1.5.x. > > We recommend the additional packaging of 1.5 only if it is marked as a > development version and can > be installed alongside an existing Scribus 1.4.0 (for example as > scribus-ng). > > The English online help has been mostly updated to match the new features. > Translations have > temporarily disabled, since they need to be synchronised with the English > version once the update > is complete. Further updates will be included with subsequent 1.4 releases. > > > > Primary Download Location > ========================= > > - Installation packages and the source code are available here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.0/ > - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net/ > - Fedora RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs > - OpenSUSE, Mandriva and SLED RPMs: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs > - All download options are listed at: > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download > > > Download Verification > ===================== > > Description File Name Sha1sum > Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.bz2 > af38413420eaa783d20f2db189aef408be844048 > Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.xz > 0e3afb98a56084c2938a8402df2d89214c42b809 > OS X Leopard or higher (DMG) scribus-1.4.0.dmg > eae5adacdc207f4bda6136dc48c26b83dcbf6b9a > OS X Leopard or higher (PKG) scribus-1.4.0.pkg > 64df9a61b33183dbc85b9a3090a648c75f320640 > Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.4.0-windows.exe > 268b9e8658528677ceac6252dae348c49643d159 > OS/2 / eComStation scribus-1.4.0-os2ecs.zip > 4fe0b3cf562cda4e1b78bf89a2340bb868610014 > > > > Credits > ======= > > The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their > continued hosting of all of > the Scribus websites. > We are also grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie > and > Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring. > As of July 2011, the Scribus Team is also pleased to welcome Resene > Colours (New Zealand) and > Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of colour > palettes which are part > of the 1.4.0 release. > Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, > translators, testers and > contributors who helped us with this important release. > > > About Scribus > ============= > > Scribus is an Open Source program for professional page layout with > press-ready output to PDF files. > Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports > professional publishing features, > such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color > management, and versatile PDF > creation. > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trenutno su?am: http://www.radioitalia60.it/streaming Moja kolekcija razglednica: https://picasaweb.google.com/107490550843032773947 -------------- ?????????????? ?????? -------------- HTML ???????????? ???? ??????????????????.. ????????????: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120102/7160c04f/attachment.html>
