[scribus-dev] v1.3.5 review, help required

[Gregory Pittman]

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I'm finishing my review of upcoming Scribus 1.3.5 for a new web
> project that I'm announcing really soon.
>
> Here is the list of currently covered items:
>
> - qt4 port
> - rendering speedups
> - sane text editing right on canvas, without SE
> - new type of object - render frame
> - new shapes presets
> - curved polyline
> - sticky tools
> - new document display options (preview mode, nb space etc. display, etc.)
> - new path editing tools
> - configurable exceptions and ignored words in hyphenation plug-in
> - optical margins on both sides
> - EPS/AI as swatches -> easy legal Pantone use
> - various UI changes (compact widget mode, more verbose Undo History,
> improved guides management, guides supported in Align'n'Distribute)
> - AI, WMF XFig, Dia/Kivio stencils import
> - print preview dialog improvements
> - bug fixing activity mentioned
> - stable/unstable branches explained
> - references to LGM2009 talks (Andreas and Gregory)
> - summary on GSoC2009 activity
>
> Apart from that what do you think should be mentioned?
>
> Things I know I'm missing:
>
> - summary of refactoring changes
> - summary of changes to SVG import/export
> - summary of changes to PDF exporting
> - summary of changes to color management
> - whether loading speedups were introduced (reports says that loading
> complex documents is nearly 5 times faster -- 4 vs 20 secs)
>
> Things I really dislike:
>
> - optical margins on both sides doesn't seem to do anything useful
> however hard I try
> - outline stroke path effect is buggy - try outlining a thick stroke
> of a <> shape and see what it does to inner angles
> - sticky tools is IMO silly, it should be the default behaviour, works
> just fine in Inkscape
> - practically no changes to drawing tools - no sane path drawing and
> node editing, no node simplification, no parametric
> rectangles/ellipses
>
> When I'm done, I translate this into EN (and localize screenshots) and
> upon announcing 1.3.5 publish the review.
>   
Add to the disliked things that the Properties palette has become so 
crowded that it is extremely frustrating on a low-res and/or small screen.

Greg