Re: [CREATE] Scribus 1.5.3 released

[farid abdelnour]

Hi Christoph

Congrats on the great release, it brings many things we've wanted for
years. :)

As soon as we can build it in Archlinux [1] we'll switch to it as our daily
driver.

Cheers

[1] https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus/issues/89

2017-05-29 1:01 GMT-03:00 "Christoph Schäfer" :

> The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release
> 1.5.3, another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0.
> In addition to being a milestone in terms of typographic features, the
> Scribus Team is convinced that 1.5.3 has become stable enough to be used in
> new workflows and documents in a similar way to the transition from 1.3.3.x
> to 1.4.0 after the release of version 1.3.6. However, care must be taken,
> because this is still a development release.
> Scribus 1.5.3 is very fast and has been thoroughly tested. Generally,
> everything that works reliably in 1.4.x also works in 1.5.3, but it's
> faster and more versatile. On top of that, it includes additional and
> already overwhelmingly reliant features galore.
>
> Most Important Changes
> ==
> - The most important change isn't immediately visible, namely a completely
> rewritten text layout engine, which supports complex scripts like Arabic,
> Hindi or Thai, as well as providing access to advanced OpenType features,
> such as ligatures and alternate glyphs.
> - Altogether, about 500 languages and/or scripts are supported. Please
> note that as of version 1.5.3, Scribus is supposed to render these diverse
> writing systems, which still needs thorough testing by those who are
> familiar with them.
> - Typing on the canvas and text rendering in general has become a lot
> faster.
> - Previews for fonts are now available in font selectors.
> - The "Text" tab has been removed from the Properties Palette and is now a
> separate UI palette.
> - The performance of copying and pasting objects in/from/to files with
> huge color palettes has been vastly improved.
> - An import filter for Krita's KRA format has been added.
> - Scribus now follows the XDG standard for configuration files. Therefore,
> the Scribus preferences directory has moved from ~/.scribus/ to a new
> default location: ~/.config/scribus/
> - Color selectors display the color values as a tooltip.
> - A longstanding problem with the launch option for an external image
> editing program has been resolved. Until version 1.5.3 it was necessary to
> manually close the external program before it could be started again from
> within Scribus. This is no longer necessary.
> - The "Wikipedia RAL Classic" color palette has been updated, this time
> using Wikipedia's LAB color values.
> - A script called "Caption" has been included, which adds a text frame to
> an image frame, based on the latter's proportions.
> - The "Autoquote" scripts now supports inverted guillemets via the "de-g"
> parameter.
> - Code improvements have been made based on recommendations from using
> both the Coverity scan tool (https://scan.coverity.com/) and the "clazy"
> tool (https://github.com/KDE/clazy). These changes improved efficiency,
> removed bugs and improved security.
> - Countless bugs, mostly introduced with the new features in earlier
> releases of 1.5.x, have been fixed. For details see the 1.5.3svn changelog (
> https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=102)
>
> New Dependencies
> 
> - As of version 1.5.3, the minimum Qt version to compile the program is
> 5.5.
> - harfbuzz and libicu, as well as the related development packages are now
> required.
>
> Caveats
> - Some newly introduced features, like footnotes, may not function as
> desired, at least not yet.
> - The file format may undergo some changes between the current release and
> 1.6.0, so we advise caution when it comes to workflows that use automated
> document generation or parsing.
> - Vertical writing systems aren't supported for the time being, but
> support will be added in a later release.
> - The Online Help hasn't been completely updated, and it won't be until
> the final 1.6.0 release.
>
> Special Credits
> ===
> - This version builds significantly on the code from 1.5.2 with the work
> that the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, led by Khaled Hosny,
> delivered.
> - 1.5.3 uses all of the remainder of the code, and we have Fahad Al-Saidi
> to thank for his continued work and especially for the bug triaging and
> code changes.
> - Andreas Vox introduced a layout cache to speed up text rendering.
> - William Bader has fixed the issue of launching several instances of an
> external image editing program.
> - Contributions to GUI translations via participants on the Transifex
> translation platform
>
> Primary Download Locations
> ==
> - Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux AppImage and the
> source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/
> projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.3/
> - Fedora 

Re: [CREATE] Scribus 1.5.3 released

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 29 May 2017, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:

> The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release 
> 1.5.3, another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0.

Awesome! I've been using master myself for my own projects and it's been great 
-- no problems at all!

> - An import filter for Krita's KRA format has been added.

Cool :-) I've checked the code, and people should note that this takes the 
embedded PNG rendered image. In other words, a CMYK krita image will be loaded 
as RGB using this filter. Probably not a big thing, but people might want to be 
aware of it.


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[CREATE] Scribus 1.5.3 released

[Christoph Schäfer]

The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release 1.5.3, 
another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0.
In addition to being a milestone in terms of typographic features, the Scribus 
Team is convinced that 1.5.3 has become stable enough to be used in new 
workflows and documents in a similar way to the transition from 1.3.3.x to 
1.4.0 after the release of version 1.3.6. However, care must be taken, because 
this is still a development release.
Scribus 1.5.3 is very fast and has been thoroughly tested. Generally, 
everything that works reliably in 1.4.x also works in 1.5.3, but it's faster 
and more versatile. On top of that, it includes additional and already 
overwhelmingly reliant features galore.

Most Important Changes
==
- The most important change isn't immediately visible, namely a completely 
rewritten text layout engine, which supports complex scripts like Arabic, Hindi 
or Thai, as well as providing access to advanced OpenType features, such as 
ligatures and alternate glyphs.
- Altogether, about 500 languages and/or scripts are supported. Please note 
that as of version 1.5.3, Scribus is supposed to render these diverse writing 
systems, which still needs thorough testing by those who are familiar with them.
- Typing on the canvas and text rendering in general has become a lot faster.
- Previews for fonts are now available in font selectors.
- The "Text" tab has been removed from the Properties Palette and is now a 
separate UI palette.
- The performance of copying and pasting objects in/from/to files with huge 
color palettes has been vastly improved.
- An import filter for Krita's KRA format has been added.
- Scribus now follows the XDG standard for configuration files. Therefore, the 
Scribus preferences directory has moved from ~/.scribus/ to a new default 
location: ~/.config/scribus/
- Color selectors display the color values as a tooltip.
- A longstanding problem with the launch option for an external image editing 
program has been resolved. Until version 1.5.3 it was necessary to manually 
close the external program before it could be started again from within 
Scribus. This is no longer necessary.
- The "Wikipedia RAL Classic" color palette has been updated, this time using 
Wikipedia's LAB color values.
- A script called "Caption" has been included, which adds a text frame to an 
image frame, based on the latter's proportions.
- The "Autoquote" scripts now supports inverted guillemets via the "de-g" 
parameter.
- Code improvements have been made based on recommendations from using both the 
Coverity scan tool (https://scan.coverity.com/) and the "clazy" tool 
(https://github.com/KDE/clazy). These changes improved efficiency, removed bugs 
and improved security.
- Countless bugs, mostly introduced with the new features in earlier releases 
of 1.5.x, have been fixed. For details see the 1.5.3svn changelog 
(https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=102)

New Dependencies

- As of version 1.5.3, the minimum Qt version to compile the program is 5.5.
- harfbuzz and libicu, as well as the related development packages are now 
required.

Caveats
- Some newly introduced features, like footnotes, may not function as desired, 
at least not yet.
- The file format may undergo some changes between the current release and 
1.6.0, so we advise caution when it comes to workflows that use automated 
document generation or parsing.
- Vertical writing systems aren't supported for the time being, but support 
will be added in a later release.
- The Online Help hasn't been completely updated, and it won't be until the 
final 1.6.0 release.

Special Credits
===
- This version builds significantly on the code from 1.5.2 with the work that 
the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, led by Khaled Hosny, delivered.
- 1.5.3 uses all of the remainder of the code, and we have Fahad Al-Saidi to 
thank for his continued work and especially for the bug triaging and code 
changes.
- Andreas Vox introduced a layout cache to speed up text rendering.
- William Bader has fixed the issue of launching several instances of an 
external image editing program.
- Contributions to GUI translations via participants on the Transifex 
translation platform

Primary Download Locations
==
- Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux AppImage and the source 
code are available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.3/
- Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
- OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
- Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is 
beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a 
regular basis.
- Windows Portable App: 
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/scribus_portable#test

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