Congratulations to all for this achievement. I am happy to help scribus to reach to more people around the world .
Regards , Fahad Al-Saidi On 5 Dec 2016 4:51 p.m., "David Goss" <goss at fstrf.org> wrote: > This is fantastic news! I can't wait to use these features (especially > opentype) in 1.5.3! > > -------------------------------- > David Goss, Technical Writer > Frontier Science (www.frontierscience.org) > LDMS (www.ldms.org) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> > To: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net, "scribus" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 2:16:49 AM > Subject: [scribus] CTL code merge successfully finished. This is huge! > > Hi all, > > > Yesterday was one of the most important dates in the history of Scribus so > far. After more than a year of hard work by Khaled Hosny, Fahad Al-Saidi > and the rest of the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, as well as > Andreas Vox, the new text layout engine has been merged successfully with > trunk and thus became part of Scribus 1.5svn. > > The code rewrite enabled us to close dozens of long-standing feature > requests and brings exciting new feature to Scribus. > > Here's what you'll get: > > - Dramatically improved speed for typing and editing text on canvas. > > - A font preview in font selectors as you are used to from other layout > and word processing programmes. It's still a bit clumsy and slow, > especially if you have many fonts installed, but it works. > > - Support for about 500 languages and/or scripts. Typographical settings > (OTF) are now language-based. > > - Support for right-to-left scripts. > > - Support for advanced OpenType features like automatic ligatures or old > style numbers. > > - These features are also available in the Style Manager. > > > In addition, the Text tab has been removed from the Properties Palette, so > there is now a separate UI palette called "Text Properties". (Windows > > Text Properties) > > Those who build Scribus trunk from source are invited to test the new > features and capabilities to the extreme, especially with complex scripts > and fully-featured OpenType fonts, so we get everything right in the > upcoming 1.5.3 release. Please don't forget to test PDF export as well. > > > Happy testing (and please do test!) > > Christoph > > ___ > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was secured by ZixCorp(R). > > > ___ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20161206/df5ef159/attachment.html>
