[scribus-dev] Scribus CTL

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:15:10PM +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
> Hi Kahled
> 
> > This should, hopefully, be done by end of next week and if all goes as
> > planned, I’ll be sending patches by then. You can see the current
> > remaining issues here:
> > https://github.com/HOST-Oman/scribus/issues
> > 
> > The boxes milestone (the only one currently) coverts feature parity with
> > trunk. Currently screen rendering and PDF are more or less complete, the
> > only major feature remaining is getting path text to work again. Other
> > export formats (SVG, XPS, PS) are in progress (personally I’d be more
> > than happy to send a patch without those and fix them later, fixing them
> > should be a few hours work for someone who knows the code).
> 
> 
> I’m watching your commits daily to github, so just keep us informed
> when you think you’re ready for merging. We still need some test docs
> to be able to compare rendering.

We made some progress, all export formats should be working, rendering
text with Cairo/FreeType is now reliably working (after long nights of
debugging and poking into the internals of Cairo and FreeType to find it
is all the fault of some Scribus code somewhere else) with fallback when
Cairo/FreeType is missing (though the Cairo/FreeType rendering is nicer
and much faster).

However path text is still not fully working, and there are some small
issues to fix. Hopefully the patches will be ready during this week.

Regards,
Khaled