r13826 by cbradney - #8327 - Updates to docs for 1.3.5
scribus-commit
scribus-commit at lists.scribus.net
Sun Aug 9 21:55:22 CEST 2009
Revision: 13826
Author: cbradney
Date: 2009-08-09T19:54:24.065376Z
Commit message: #8327 - Updates to docs for 1.3.5
Changeset:
M /trunk/Scribus/doc/en/specs.html
M /trunk/Scribus/doc/en/doccopyright.html
M /trunk/Scribus/doc/en/color1.html
M /trunk/Scribus/doc/en/images/colormanager1.png
M /trunk/Scribus/doc/en/contributions.html
M /trunk/Scribus/doc/en/index.html
Diffs:
Index: doc/en/images/colormanager1.png
===================================================================
Cannot display: file marked as a binary type.
svn:mime-type = application/octet-stream
Index: doc/en/doccopyright.html
===================================================================
--- doc/en/doccopyright.html (revision 13825)
+++ doc/en/doccopyright.html (revision 13826)
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
<body>
<h2>Copyright Notice and Publication License</h2>
-<p>This copyright notice concerns the online and packaged version of: Scribus Help Manual, by Peter Linnell with the assistance of Franz Schmid, the main programmer of Scribus. Further additions by the rest of the Scribus team composed of Craig Bradney, Paul Johnson, Riku Leino, Petr Vanek). Original site design based on site design of the <a href="http://www.inkscape.org">Inkscape</a> website.</p>
+<p>This copyright notice concerns the online and packaged version of: Scribus Help Manual, by Peter Linnell with the assistance of Franz Schmid, the main programmer of Scribus. Further additions by the rest of the Scribus team composed of Craig Bradney, Jean Ghali, Hermann Kraus, Riku Leino, Oleksandr Moskalenko, Craig Ringer, Christoph Schäfer, Petr Vanek, Andreas Vox).
<p>The FreedomYug tutorial on docs.scribus.net, and "PDF Forms and PHP" page are licensed under the Free Documentation License which can be viewed by going to the first page of the FreedomYug tutorial section and clicking on the FDL link. The FDL applies ONLY to this section of the documentation.</p>
-<p>The help manual (excluding the aforementioned FreedomYug tutorial and "PDF Form and PHP" page) is distributed under the Open Publication License guidelines described at <a href="http://www.opencontent.org">www.opencontent.org</a>.</p>
+<p>The online help manual (excluding the aforementioned FreedomYug tutorial and "PDF Form and PHP" page) is distributed under the Open Publication License guidelines described at <a href="http://www.opencontent.org">www.opencontent.org</a>.</p>
<p>The following is the text of the license as it applies to this work:</p>
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
<p>Proper form for an incorporation by reference is as follows:
-<p>Copyright (c) 2006 Peter Linnell and Franz Schmid, 2006 The Scribus Team. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at <a href="http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/">http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/</a>).
+<p>Copyright (c) 2006–2009 Peter Linnell and Franz Schmid, 2006–2009 The Scribus Team. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at <a href="http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/">http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/</a>).
<p>The reference must be immediately followed with the elected options (see section VI).
Index: doc/en/contributions.html
===================================================================
--- doc/en/contributions.html (revision 13825)
+++ doc/en/contributions.html (revision 13826)
@@ -1,36 +1,37 @@
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
- <title>Contributions to the documentation<</title>
+ <title>Contributions to the Documentation<</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Contributions to the documentation</h2>
-<p>This documentation website is the third generation of the Scribus documentation. The initial documents that these were developed from were written by Peter Linnell with help from Franz Schmid. As the Scribus team has grown, and the various contributions from other people has also grown, we have seen a number of additions and updates. The following table attempts to list in alphabetical order the main contributors to the documentations. Hopefully we dont miss any of you out (if so, please contact us and we will add you in):
+<p>This online help is the fourth generation of the Scribus documentation. The initial documents, from which these were developed were written by Peter Linnell with help from Franz Schmid. Since then, the Scribus Team has grown, as did the number of contributions from other people, and we have seen an increasing number of additions and updates. The following table attempts to list the contributors to the documentations. Hopefully we didn't miss anyone out (if so, please contact us and we will add you in):
</p>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#dddddd"><td>Name</td><td>Contribution(s)</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Niyam Bhushan</td><td>Get Started with Scribus tutorial</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Niyam Bhushan</td><td>Initial version of the "Get Started with Scribus" tutorial</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Craig Bradney</td><td>Site implementation, management and documentation verification</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Maciej Hański</td><td>PHP form document</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td><a href="http://www.inkscape.org">Inkscape team</a></td><td>Original site layout code</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Václav Hlobil</td><td>Title graphics</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Paul Johnson</td><td>Coding Standards document</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Riku Leino</td><td>Get Text Plugin Howto</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Riku Leino</td><td>Get Text plug-in Howto</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Peter Linnell</td><td>Main documentation</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Franz Schmid</td><td>Scribus :) and documentation verification</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Petr Vaněk</td><td>Scripter and Plugin documentation</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Petr Vaněk</td><td>Scripter and plug-in documentation</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Craig Ringer</td><td>Scripter documentation</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Christoph Schäfer</td><td>Additional documentation, proofreading, German translation</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Gregory Pittman</td><td>Main author of the <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Get_Started_with_Scribus">next generation</a> of the "Get Started with Scribus" tutorial, proofreading</td></tr>
</table>
<h4>Document Translators</h4>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#dddddd"><td>Name</td><td>Language(s)</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Louis Desjardins</td><td>French</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Frederic Dubuy</td><td>French</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>François Lanctôt, thanks to <A href="http://grics.qc.ca">GRICS</A></td><td>French</td></tr>
+ <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Volker Ribbert</td><td>German</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Johannes Rüschel</td><td>German</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Louis Desjardin</td><td>French</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>Volker Ribbert</td><td>German</td></tr>
- <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>François Lanctôt, thanks to <A href="http://grics.qc.ca">GRICS</A></td><td>French</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Index: doc/en/specs.html
===================================================================
--- doc/en/specs.html (revision 13825)
+++ doc/en/specs.html (revision 13826)
@@ -6,20 +6,19 @@
<body>
<h2>Scribus Specifications</h2>
<h3>Summary:</h3>
-<p>Scribus is an open source cross-platform page layout (DTP) program. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus also runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows 2000 or later. The goal of the Scribus Team is to make professional page layout accessible for beginners, without limiting support for professional publishing features such as: spot color support, CMYK color, high grade PDF creation, Encapsulated PostScript import/export and creation of color separations.</p>
+<p>Scribus is an Open Source, cross-platform page layout (DTP) program. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus also runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows 2000 or later. The goal of the Scribus Team is to enable beginners to create professional-grade page layout and output, without limiting the advanced requirements of professional designers.</p>
<h3>Document Features:</h3>
<ul>
- <li>Scribus imports many common text formats including OASIS (Open Document) and MS Word docs (via antiword).</li>
- <li>Supports Unicode text and fonts including right to left text for Arabic and Hebrew script via freetype2.</li>
- <li>Frames, visible and hidden with support for rounded edges and corners for text and objects, rotatable and scalable</li>
- <li>Page Templates and Page Palettes allow for easy page management</li>
- <li>Document-wide layers - editable and items can be moved within layers. </li>
- <li>Paragraph styles with numerous paragraph and text style options (alignment, fonts)</li>
+ <li>Scribus imports many common text formats including Open Document Text, HTML and MS Word docs (via antiword).</li>
+ <li>Frames that can be edited more flexibly than in most other DTP programs.</li>
+ <li>Master Pages and Page Palettes allow for easy page management</li>
+ <li>Document-wide layers – editable, and items can be moved between layers. </li>
+ <li>Paragraph and Character Styles with numerous paragraph and text style options</li>
<li>Integrated Style Manager for managing Paragraph, Character and Line Styles.</li>
<li>Object linking, grouping, moving, locking, resizing and converting to different object types.</li>
<li>Margins, guides and snap to grid which can be user defined, as well as hidden or visible.</li>
<li>Sophisticated type handling including manual kerning of type, optical margins and word and glyph spacing options. </li>
-<li>New with the 1.3.5 release will be LaTeX frames; enabling you to import LaTeX formulas and other content directly into frames.</li>
+<li>New with the 1.3.5 release are Render Frames, enabling you to import LaTeX formulas and other markup content directly into frames.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Professional Publishing Features:</h3>
@@ -29,8 +28,8 @@
<li>Sophisticated PDF creation, including interactive PDF forms, support for nearly all PDF field types, and JavaScript actions.</li>
<li>The ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment including advanced Level 3/PDF 1.4 PostScript devices.</li>
<li>Encapsulated PostScript import with previews on the page canvas / EPS export.</li>
- <li>Full support for Level 2 PostScript output, a very large subset of Level 3 and support for PDF 1.4 features including transparency, gradients and 128 bit security.</li>
- <li>Full Compliance with PDF/X-3, an ISO standard for creating "press ready" PDFs - a first for <strong>any</strong> page layout application.</li>
+ <li>Full support for Level 2 PostScript output, a very large subset of Level 3 and support for PDF 1.4/1.5 features including transparency, gradients and 128 bit security.</li>
+ <li>Full Compliance with PDF/X-3, an ISO standard for creating "press ready" PDFs – a first for <strong>any</strong> page layout application.</li>
<li>Supports font embedding and sub-setting in both PostScript and PDF export.</li>
<li>Scribus can convert all supported fonts into PostScript outlines, which can be further edited in Scribus.</li>
<li>Scribus imports a wide range of bitmap formats including extensive support for Photoshop PSD and layered Tiffs. Layer blending modes and clipping paths are supported which can be then manipulated with Extended Image Effects. Photoshop Duo, Tri and Quadtones are similarly well supported. Layers . 16-bit TIFF and PSD support is in testing. </li>
@@ -39,36 +38,36 @@
<h3>Ease of use features:</h3>
<ul>
- <li>Drag'n'drop with KDE 3, including a Drag'n'drop scrapbook for frequently used items such as text blocks, logo images, backgrounds etc.</li>
- <li>Online help browser with extensive and continually updated documentation in English with sample files included.</li>
- <li>Easy to use tools and palettes for measurement, rotation and other object properties</li>
- <li>Full support for both TrueType, Type 1 PostScript and OpenType fonts.</li>
- <li>User configurable keyboard shortcuts.</li>
+ <li>A drag'n'drop scrapbook for frequently used items such as text blocks, logo images, backgrounds etc.</li>
+ <li>Online help browser with extensive and continually updated documentation in English, French and German.</li>
+ <li>Easy-to-use tools and palettes for measurement, rotation and other object properties</li>
+ <li>Full support for TrueType, Type 1 PostScript and OpenType fonts.</li>
+ <li>User-configurable keyboard shortcuts.</li>
<li>Ability to run in 27 different languages without recompilation or application re-start.</li>
<li>Sophisticated automatic hyphenation engine with several languages available.</li>
- <li>Easy to use drawing tools for custom shapes including: freehand lines, lines, curves, ellipses, bezier curves, polygons, patterns etc.</li>
+ <li>Easy to use drawing tools for custom shapes, including: freehand lines, lines, curves, ellipses, bezier curves, polygons, patterns etc.</li>
<li>Detailed and flexible user preferences for document and application defaults</li>
</ul>
<h3>File Formats:</h3>
<ul>
- <li>Scribus 1.2.x native file format is fully documented and XML based. The current 1.3.x format is a transitional format which will be fully XML conformant and have a full DTD before the next stable release. </li>
+ <li>Scribus 1.2.x native file format is fully documented and XML based. The current 1.3.x formats are transitional formats, which will be fully XML conformant and have a full DTD before the next stable release. </li>
<li>EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), PNG (Portable Network Graphics), TIFF (Tag Image File Format), and XPM (XpixMap). PSD support includes duo/tri/quadtones, layers and clipping paths. 16-bit TIFF and PSD support is in testing.</li>
<li>Scribus can also import and export well-formed SVG 1.0 (Scalable Vector Graphics) including text on a path, images and text. Scribus can export all features of a Scribus document as SVG. Images are converted to PNG when exporting SVG.</li>
- <li>Scribus can import text with many different encodings including Unicode, as well as support for OpenOffice.org 1.x and OASIS Open Document Writer and Draw files. Styles and formatting are retained on import. </li>
+ <li>Scribus can import text with many different encodings including Unicode, as well as OpenOffice.org 1.x and OASIS Open Document Writer and Draw files. Styles and formatting are retained on import. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Architecture:</h3>
<ul>
- <li>Originally developed with GPL QT 3 for Linux and "Unix like" operating systems. Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows 2000 or newer (Win9x and WinMe are not nor will be supported.</li>
+ <li>Originally developed with GPL Qt 3 for Linux and "Unix like" operating systems. Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows 2000 or newer (Win9x and WinMe are not nor will be supported.</li>
<li>Plug-in support and API including import and export plug-ins. </li>
- <li>Powerful Python Scripting Plug-in for extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.</li>
+ <li>Powerful Python scripting plug-in for extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Target Usage:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Layouts for newsletters, corporate stationery, posters, training manuals, technical documentation, business cards and other documents which need flexible layout and/or sophisticated image handling, as well as precise typography controls and image sizing not available in current word processors.</li>
<li>Users needing the ability to output to professional quality image setting equipment, as well as re-purposing for internal printing, web distributed PDFs or presentations.</li>
- <li>Users needing to create interactive PDF forms for presentations and cgi/php form submission via PDF.</li>
+ <li>Users needing to create interactive PDF forms, including cgi/php form submission via PDF, or PDF presentations.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
\ No newline at end of file
Index: doc/en/color1.html
===================================================================
--- doc/en/color1.html (revision 13825)
+++ doc/en/color1.html (revision 13826)
@@ -3,25 +3,49 @@
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Editing and Importing Colors, Scribus Color Sets</title>
</head>
-<body>
-<h3>Editing and Importing Colors, Scribus Color Sets</h3>
-<p>Within Scribus there are several methods to create, import and edit colors in a document. Which method to follow, depends on if you need to replicate or import colors from another Scribus document or other third party documents. These third party documents could be an EPS, SVG or other vector format files. Moreover, Scribus has a well developed tool, the Color Wheel plug-in, which helps
- to guide you selecting complementary colors, as well as visualize colors seen by folks with certain kinds of color-blindness.</p>
-<p>Let us start by looking at <strong>Color Sets</strong>:</p>
-<p>By default, Scribus comes with a handful of very useful color sets, which can be used as a basis for creating new colors or color sets. You can then reuse these sets in all future documents. It is helpful to understand the differences between RGB and CMYK color models and I recommend you have color management properly set up and enabled when using CMYK color sets. Remember, true CMYK colors cannot be shown directly on a computer monitor; they can only be simulated. Color Management, when enabled, presents a truer representation of colors when printed using CMYK inks. Note, that most common desktop inkjet printers are actually what we call an RGB device, like a monitor. This is because their drivers expect RGB color data and do the RGB to CMYK conversion internally via the driver and/or a combination of driver/firmware in the printer.</p>
-<p>One other term which is handy to know is in page layout color sets are also known as <em><strong>swatches</strong></em>, much like a swatch book of fabrics or paints.</p>
+<h3>Solid Colors</h3>
+<p>Within Scribus there are several methods to create, import and edit solid colors and color sets in a document. Moreover, Scribus has a well developed tool, the Color Wheel plug-in, which helps with creating creating color harmonies and even testing them for people with colour blindness.</p>
+<h4>Managing Color Sets</h4>
+<p>By default, Scribus comes with a handful of very useful color sets, which can be used as a basis for creating new colors or color sets. You can then reuse these sets in all future documents. It is helpful to understand the differences between RGB and CMYK color models, and it is recommended you have color management properly set up and enabled. Remember, true CMYK colors cannot be shown directly on a computer monitor; they can only be simulated. Color Management, when enabled, presents a truer representation of colors when printed using CMYK inks. Note that most common desktop inkjet printers are actually what is called an RGB device, like a monitor. This is because their drivers expect RGB color data and do the RGB to CMYK conversion internally via the driver and/or a combination of driver/firmware in the printer.</p>
+<p>One other term which is handy to know in page layout is <em>color sets</em>, also known as <em>palettes</em> or <em>swatches</em>, much like swatch books of fabrics or paints.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Scribus Small</strong> is a set of primary CMYK colors. These are based on a mix of percentages of the standard CMYK inks. </li>
+<li><strong>Scribus Basic</strong> is a set of primary CMYK and RGB colors, as well as two variants of black, namely "Cool Black" and "Warm Black." The latter consists of a mix of C, M, Y and K colours instead of just 100% K (K=Black).</li>
<li><strong>Scribus Gnome</strong> is a set of named RGB colors, which are standard on recent Gnome Desktops. </li>
- <li><strong>Scribus Open Office</strong> is a set of CMYK colors which are based on the standard colors found in OpenOffice.org applications.</li>
+ <li><strong>Scribus OpenOffice</strong> is a set of CMYK colors which are based on the standard colors found in OpenOffice.org.</li>
<li><strong>Scribus SVG</strong> is a set of RGB colors based on the named colors from the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color">SVG specification</a>.</li>
- <li><strong>Scribus X11</strong> is a set of RGB colors based on the named colors from X-Windows</li>
- <li><strong>Scribus X11</strong> is a set of Grey Scale shades based on the named shades from X-Windows </li>
+<li><strong>Scribus Splash</strong> is a set of the colours in the Scribus logo and the splashscreen. Its main purpose is to guarantee a consistent use of colors in Scribus-related publications.</li>
+ <li><strong>Scribus X11</strong> is a set of RGB colors based on the named colors from X-Window.</li>
+ <li><strong>Scribus X11</strong> is a set of Grey Scale shades based on the named shades from X-Window.</li>
+<li><strong>Scribus Xfig</strong> is a set of the RGB colors used by Xfig.</li>
+<li>Some of the swatches also contain a color called "Registration." Since this one is only used for printing marks in offset printing, you cannot edit the color.</li>
</ul>
-<p>You can choose the default color set for all documents by closing all documents and then picking one from the Color Editor Palette.</p>
-<table width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/colormanager1.png" title="Scribus' Story Editor" alt="Scribus' Story Editor" /></td></tr></table><br />
+<p>You can choose the default color set for all new documents by closing all documents and then picking one from the Color Editor Palette (Edit > Colors).</p>
+<table width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/colormanager1.png" title="Scribus Color Manager" alt="Scribus Color Manager" /></td></tr></table><br />
<h4>Importing Colors</h4>
-<p>From the Color Manager you can import colors from other Scribus documents or from vector based EPS, PostScript or AI (Adobe Illustrator®) files. This includes spot colors which are special named colors. To import the colors only, click the Import button and then change the file type drop down to show non-Scribus files. </p>
-<p>Not all files will have colors which can be imported, even if they are PostScript based. Why? Not all programs save <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_structure_convention">DSC</a> (Document Structure Convention) comments properly and incompatible proprietary extensions which do not follow the Postscript specification properly.</p>
+<p>From the Color Manager you can import colors from other Scribus documents or from vector based EPS, PostScript or AI (Adobe Illustrator®) files, as well as OpenOffice.org (SOC) and GIMP (GPL) palettes, and also spot colors. The latter are colors that are only identified by their name, hence the alternative term "Named Colors." It's up to the printer to reproduce any such color with the help of a color fan and/or a specialized ink vendor.</p>
+<p>To import colors, click the "Import" button and then change the file type drop down to show non-Scribus files. </p>
+<p>Sometimes, colors cannot be imported from a file, even if it's PostScript based. Why? Not all programs save <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_structure_convention">DSC</a> (Document Structure Convention) comments properly and incompatible proprietary extensions which do not follow the Postscript specification properly.</p>
+<p>Note that colors in imported vector files will be added automatically to the color set of the current document.</p>
+<h4>Creating New Color Sets</h4>
+<p>To create a new color set, close all documents and open the Color Manager. Choose any palette from the list. Now you can add, remove or import colors. Finally, click on "Save Color Set." Scribus will ask for a name, and after clicking "OK," the new palette is saved. You can now use it in all documents.</p>
+<h4>Replacing Colors</h4>
+<p>It is possible to replace all instances of a solid color in a Scribus document. Just open the replacement dialog (Edit > Replace Colors).</p>
+<table width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/replace_colors.png" title="Replacing Colors" alt="Replacing Colors" /></td></tr></table>
+<br>
+<p>The dialog provides three editing options:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><strong>Add...</strong> allows for adding a new color and its substitution.</li>
+<li><strong>Remove</strong> removes a selected color substitution.</li>
+<li><strong>Edit</strong> allows for editing a color substitution.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><em>Note that clicking OK removes all colors in the left column of the dialog shown above from the document irreversibly!</em>
+</p>
+<h4>Removing Colors</h4>
+<p>There are two ways to remove colors from a document, and they serve different purposes.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>To remove a color that's used in a document, use color replacement as described above and choose "None" as the replacement color.</li>
+<li>To remove all colors in a color set that aren't used in the current document, open the Color Manager and click "Remove Unused."</li>
+</ul>
</body>
</html>
\ No newline at end of file
Index: doc/en/index.html
===================================================================
--- doc/en/index.html (revision 13825)
+++ doc/en/index.html (revision 13826)
@@ -6,17 +6,18 @@
<td align="right"><img src="images/docheader2.png" width="318" height="87"></td>
</tr>
</table>
-<h2>Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing</h2>
+<h2>Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing</h2>
<!--marker for image gallery-->
-<p>Scribus brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOSX, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.</p>
+<p>Scribus brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.</p>
-<p>Since its humble beginning in the spring of 2001, Scribus has rapidly developed into one of the premier desktop applications for Linux. Called by Newsforge, <b>"..one of the killer applications for Linux"</b>, Scribus brings powerful and versatile tools for desktop publishing. New features like separation previews, cross-platform python scripting, advanced PDF 1.4 support are just some of the hundreds of improvements large and small in Scribus. Beginning with the 1.3.3.7 release, Scribus is now completely cross-platform and runs natively on Linux/Unix, MacOSX, OS/2 and Windows.</p>
+<p>Since its humble beginning in the spring of 2001, Scribus has rapidly developed into one of the premier desktop applications for Linux. Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, supported by a large and constantly growing number of enthusiastic contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to develop and improve "one of the most powerful and useful open-source projects out there" (TechRepublic). Scribus brings powerful and versatile tools for desktop publishing and PDF creation, including separation previews, cross-platform Python scripting or advanced PDF 1.4 and 1.5 support. Scribus is now completely cross-platform and runs natively on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows.</p>
-<p>Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. <b>Scribus was the first DTP application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard.</b> Scribus did so by almost a year. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.</p>
+<p>Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK colors, spot color support, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was also the first DTP application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard for pre-press documents.</p>
-<p><b>Scribus also has unexpected touches such as: useful vector drawing tools, SVG import/export and support for OpenType Fonts.</b> The Scribus file format is XML based; open and completely documented. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor - sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. There is an easy to use drag and drop scrapbook. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages and more are coming in the future. <b>The Scribus team prides itself on excellent end user support with a lively IRC channel and friendly mailing list.</b></p>
+<p>Scribus also has unexpected touches, such as useful vector drawing tools, support for many file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus. The Scribus file format is XML based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor – sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages, and more are coming in the future.</p>
+<p>The Scribus team prides itself on excellent end user support with a lively IRC channel and friendly mailing list.</p>
<div class="news">
More information about the scribus-commit
mailing list