[scribus] Announce: Scribus 1.4.0 Released
Renato Petrovic
renato.petrovic at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 23:23:08 UTC 2012
Many thanks to The Scribus Team!
Renato Petrović,
Belgrade, Serbia
2012/1/2 Craig Bradney <cbradney ���� scribus.info>
>
> Hi
>
> We'd like to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.0 with the below
> information about the release,
> please also see http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.0_Release for the
> coloured wiki format.
>
> Thanks
> Craig
>
>
> Scribus 1.4.0 Released
> ======================
>
> After almost 4 years of intensive work, the Scribus Team (www.scribus.net)
> has released the new
> stable version 1.4.0 of the Open Source desktop publishing program
> Scribus. Given this is the first
> major stable release in some time, this document outlines improvements
> over the last number of
> versions, rather than since just the last one. The idea is to form a
> general comparison between
> this and the last stable release.
>
> In summary, more than 2000 feature requests and bugs have been resolved
> since the development of
> this new version started.
>
>
> Major changes and improvements in comparison to the last stable version
> 1.3.3.14 are:
>
> - 1.4.0 is based on the Qt4 application framework. The initial
> transition from Qt3 was performed
> quite quickly, but fine tuning for cross-platform compatibility and
> taking advantage of new
> features took quite some time. As a result, Scribus now runs equally
> reliable on all supported
> platforms.
> - Thanks to the port to Qt4, the Scribus Team now also provides install
> files for Mac OS X 10.5
> or later, as well as a native version for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation.
> Additionally, thanks to
> feedback from users of other UNIX platforms, Scribus will build and
> run on more of those
> platforms as well.
> - Feature enhancements to object handling (e.g. transform tools like in
> advanced drawing
> programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook
> and the Image Manager.
> - Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles,
> optical margins, or
> glyph extension. Undo/Redo is finally available for almost all
> text-related actions, and a new
> script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation
> marks based on language
> settings. Usability improvements include better cursor placement and
> movement, faster layout
> on canvas and interaction between linked frames.
> - New features for vector objects, like Boolean path operations, vector
> effects or a line style
> editor.
> - Major improvements to the handling of fills, like pattern fill, more
> gradient types, support
> for external color palette formats (AI, EPS, GPL, PostScript, SOC),
> and many new color
> palettes, including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp
> studio, as well as
> national/government standards.
> - A new frame type called "Render Frame" allows for rendering (and
> subsequently export) the
> output of every program that can create PostScript, PDF or PNG files
> via the command
> line (e.g. LaTeX, Lilypond, POV-Ray) inside Scribus. The initial
> version of which was
> developed as a project for Google Summer of Code and this project has
> developed to allow
> import of externally produced documents, scientific publications and
> formulas. More renderers
> can be added with a simple configuration file.
> - Vector import filters: Scribus 1.4.0 provides new import filters for
> the following file
> formats: Adobe Illustrator (both EPS and PDF-based), Macintosh Picture
> (PICT),
> Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG),
> Kivio Stencils (SML),
> and DIA Shapes (SHAPE).
> - Regarding bitmap images, the handling of Photoshop files has seen many
> major improvements,
> like support of multiple clipping paths or PSD layers. The Image
> Manager has been rewritten,
> and new non-destructive image effects have been added. Moreover,
> Scribus 1.4.0 now supports
> EXIF data in images, and import of Windows and OS/2 bitmaps (BMP) has
> been re-enabled.
> - Among the major enhancements to Scribus's pre-press features, printing
> marks and the display
> of ink coverage in the Print Preview are the most important. In
> addition, Scribus now enables
> conversion of spot colors to process colors during PDF and PostScript
> export with a single
> click.
> - PDF export has seen major improvements as well. Scribus can now export
> to PDF 1.5, including
> PDF layers. Another new feature is the option to embed EPS and PDF
> files in exported PDFs as
> an alternative to rasterizing them. Also, both font embedding and
> substitution have been
> improved.
> - For color management, Scribus 1.4.0 now supports both littleCMS
> version 1 and 2. It's also
> possible to enable color management with a single click from the main
> window.
> - Additionally, the Scribus Team has added a feature to emulate color
> blindness on screen.
> - Hundreds of minor and major usability improvements have been added.
> - The included scripts have been updated, including the addition of the
> "Autoquote" script in
> the Script menu to convert straight quotes in a text frame to correct
> quotation marks for
> many languages.
> - Scribus 1.4.0 is being shipped with many more templates than previous
> versions.
> - The content of the Help System has been rewritten and updated.
>
> Now that Scribus 1.4.0 has been released, the Scribus Team will focus on
> stabilizing the 1.5
> development branch, which will comprise amazing new features like support
> for PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-4
> and PDF/E, Mesh Gradients, native PDF import, XAR import, a completely
> rewritten table
> implementation, a rewritten text system, and much more. The 1.4.x version
> is now in
> stable/maintenance mode, which means few features will be backported from
> the 1.5 development
> branch. In general, only bugs will be fixed in subsequent 1.4.x versions,
> along with new content,
> like new translations, new templates, or additional color palettes.
>
>
> Important Information
> =====================
>
> If you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team members use
> the same Scribus version
> – this will avoid many headaches and extra work.
>
> Users should be warned that 1.3.3.x cannot open 1.4.0 files.
>
> The Scribus Team recommends that all distributions package Scribus 1.4.0
> as "Scribus" (and replace
> the outdated Scribus 1.3.3.14).
>
> The 1.4.x branch will now be developed in the Version14x branch of our
> Subversion repository,
> leaving the Version135 one behind. This also fixes the version numbering
> issues of the past, with
> just two main versions, 1.4.x and 1.5.x
>
> The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements
> in the development
> branch 1.5.x.
>
> We recommend the additional packaging of 1.5 only if it is marked as a
> development version and can
> be installed alongside an existing Scribus 1.4.0 (for example as
> scribus-ng).
>
> The English online help has been mostly updated to match the new features.
> Translations have
> temporarily disabled, since they need to be synchronised with the English
> version once the update
> is complete. Further updates will be included with subsequent 1.4 releases.
>
>
>
> Primary Download Location
> =========================
>
> - Installation packages and the source code are available here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.0/
> - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net/
> - Fedora RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
> - OpenSUSE, Mandriva and SLED RPMs:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
> - All download options are listed at:
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download
>
>
> Download Verification
> =====================
>
> Description File Name Sha1sum
> Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.bz2
> af38413420eaa783d20f2db189aef408be844048
> Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.xz
> 0e3afb98a56084c2938a8402df2d89214c42b809
> OS X Leopard or higher (DMG) scribus-1.4.0.dmg
> eae5adacdc207f4bda6136dc48c26b83dcbf6b9a
> OS X Leopard or higher (PKG) scribus-1.4.0.pkg
> 64df9a61b33183dbc85b9a3090a648c75f320640
> Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.4.0-windows.exe
> 268b9e8658528677ceac6252dae348c49643d159
> OS/2 / eComStation scribus-1.4.0-os2ecs.zip
> 4fe0b3cf562cda4e1b78bf89a2340bb868610014
>
>
>
> Credits
> =======
>
> The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their
> continued hosting of all of
> the Scribus websites.
> We are also grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
> and
> Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.
> As of July 2011, the Scribus Team is also pleased to welcome Resene
> Colours (New Zealand) and
> Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of colour
> palettes which are part
> of the 1.4.0 release.
> Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users,
> translators, testers and
> contributors who helped us with this important release.
>
>
> About Scribus
> =============
>
> Scribus is an Open Source program for professional page layout with
> press-ready output to PDF files.
> Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports
> professional publishing features,
> such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color
> management, and versatile PDF
> creation.
>
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