[scribus-dev] [scribus] CTL code merge successfully finished. This is huge!

[Fahad Al-Saidi]

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!
>
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> David Goss, Technical Writer
> Frontier Science (www.frontierscience.org)
> LDMS (www.ldms.org)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph Schäfer" <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
>
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