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

[Andreas Vox]

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> [mailto:scribus-dev-bounces at lists.scribus.net] Im Auftrag 
> von Alexandre Prokoudine
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. Juni 2009 18:32
> An: Scribus Development Mailing List
> Betreff: [scribus-dev] v1.3.5 review, help required
> 
> Heya,
> 
> I'm finishing my review of upcoming Scribus 1.3.5 for a new 
> web project that I'm announcing really soon.
> 
...
> 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

Only the naming has changed. Currently we only do hanging punctuation on
both sides (,.;:"'´`- etc.) and margin kerning on the right side. We dont 
do margin kerning on the left side other than for punctuation.

> - 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

Have you covered the new path tools?

/Andreas