<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi, I'm MacOSX 10.5 PowerPC G4 user, is some hope for us?</span></div><div> <br> <div>----- Original Message -----<br> From: Craig Bradney <cbradney@scribus.info><br> To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br> Cc: <br> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 1:18 AM<br> Subject: [scribus] Announce: Scribus 1.4.0 Released<br> <br><br>Hi<br><br>We'd like to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.0 with the below information about the release,<br>please also see <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.0_Release" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.0_Release</a> for the coloured wiki format.<br><br>Thanks<br>Craig<br><br><br>Scribus 1.4.0 Released<br>======================<br><br>After almost 4 years of intensive work, the Scribus Team (www.scribus.net) has released the new<br>stable version 1.4.0 of the Open Source desktop
publishing program Scribus. Given this is the first<br>major stable release in some time, this document outlines improvements over the last number of<br>versions, rather than since just the last one. The idea is to form a general comparison between<br>this and the last stable release.<br><br>In summary, more than 2000 feature requests and bugs have been resolved since the development of<br>this new version started.<br><br><br>Major changes and improvements in comparison to the last stable version 1.3.3.14 are:<br><br> - 1.4.0 is based on the Qt4 application framework. The initial transition from Qt3 was performed<br> quite quickly, but fine tuning for cross-platform compatibility and taking advantage of new<br> features took quite some time. As a result, Scribus now runs equally reliable on all supported<br> platforms.<br> - Thanks to the port to Qt4, the Scribus Team now also provides
install files for Mac OS X 10.5<br> or later, as well as a native version for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation. Additionally, thanks to<br> feedback from users of other UNIX platforms, Scribus will build and run on more of those<br> platforms as well.<br> - Feature enhancements to object handling (e.g. transform tools like in advanced drawing<br> programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook and the Image Manager.<br> - Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles, optical margins, or<br> glyph extension. Undo/Redo is finally available for almost all text-related actions, and a new<br> script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation marks based on language<br> settings. Usability improvements include better cursor placement and movement, faster layout<br>
on canvas and interaction between linked frames.<br> - New features for vector objects, like Boolean path operations, vector effects or a line style<br> editor.<br> - Major improvements to the handling of fills, like pattern fill, more gradient types, support<br> for external color palette formats (AI, EPS, GPL, PostScript, SOC), and many new color<br> palettes, including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp studio, as well as<br> national/government standards.<br> - A new frame type called "Render Frame" allows for rendering (and subsequently export) the<br> output of every program that can create PostScript, PDF or PNG files via the command<br> line (e.g. LaTeX, Lilypond, POV-Ray) inside Scribus. The initial version of which was<br> developed as a project for Google Summer of Code and this project has
developed to allow<br> import of externally produced documents, scientific publications and formulas. More renderers<br> can be added with a simple configuration file.<br> - Vector import filters: Scribus 1.4.0 provides new import filters for the following file<br> formats: Adobe Illustrator (both EPS and PDF-based), Macintosh Picture (PICT),<br> Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), Kivio Stencils (SML),<br> and DIA Shapes (SHAPE).<br> - Regarding bitmap images, the handling of Photoshop files has seen many major improvements,<br> like support of multiple clipping paths or PSD layers. The Image Manager has been rewritten,<br> and new non-destructive image effects have been added. Moreover, Scribus 1.4.0 now supports<br> EXIF data in images, and import of Windows and OS/2 bitmaps (BMP) has
been re-enabled.<br> - Among the major enhancements to Scribus's pre-press features, printing marks and the display<br> of ink coverage in the Print Preview are the most important. In addition, Scribus now enables<br> conversion of spot colors to process colors during PDF and PostScript export with a single<br> click.<br> - PDF export has seen major improvements as well. Scribus can now export to PDF 1.5, including<br> PDF layers. Another new feature is the option to embed EPS and PDF files in exported PDFs as<br> an alternative to rasterizing them. Also, both font embedding and substitution have been<br> improved.<br> - For color management, Scribus 1.4.0 now supports both littleCMS version 1 and 2. It's also<br> possible to enable color management with a single click from the main window.<br> - Additionally,
the Scribus Team has added a feature to emulate color blindness on screen.<br> - Hundreds of minor and major usability improvements have been added.<br> - The included scripts have been updated, including the addition of the "Autoquote" script in<br> the Script menu to convert straight quotes in a text frame to correct quotation marks for<br> many languages.<br> - Scribus 1.4.0 is being shipped with many more templates than previous versions.<br> - The content of the Help System has been rewritten and updated.<br><br>Now that Scribus 1.4.0 has been released, the Scribus Team will focus on stabilizing the 1.5<br>development branch, which will comprise amazing new features like support for PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-4<br>and PDF/E, Mesh Gradients, native PDF import, XAR import, a completely rewritten table<br>implementation, a rewritten text system, and much more. The 1.4.x version is now
in<br>stable/maintenance mode, which means few features will be backported from the 1.5 development<br>branch. In general, only bugs will be fixed in subsequent 1.4.x versions, along with new content,<br>like new translations, new templates, or additional color palettes.<br><br><br>Important Information<br>=====================<br><br>If you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team members use the same Scribus version<br>– this will avoid many headaches and extra work.<br><br>Users should be warned that 1.3.3.x cannot open 1.4.0 files.<br><br>The Scribus Team recommends that all distributions package Scribus 1.4.0 as "Scribus" (and replace<br>the outdated Scribus 1.3.3.14).<br><br>The 1.4.x branch will now be developed in the Version14x branch of our Subversion repository,<br>leaving the Version135 one behind. This also fixes the version numbering issues of the past, with<br>just two main versions, 1.4.x and 1.5.x<br><br>The Scribus
Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in the development<br>branch 1.5.x.<br><br>We recommend the additional packaging of 1.5 only if it is marked as a development version and can<br>be installed alongside an existing Scribus 1.4.0 (for example as scribus-ng).<br><br>The English online help has been mostly updated to match the new features. Translations have<br>temporarily disabled, since they need to be synchronised with the English version once the update<br>is complete. Further updates will be included with subsequent 1.4 releases.<br><br><br><br>Primary Download Location<br>=========================<br><br> - Installation packages and the source code are available here:<br> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.0/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.0/</a><br> - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: <a
href="http://debian.scribus.net/" target="_blank">http://debian.scribus.net/</a><br> - Fedora RPMS: <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs" target="_blank">http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs</a><br> - OpenSUSE, Mandriva and SLED RPMs: <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs" target="_blank">http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs</a><br> - All download options are listed at: <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download</a><br><br><br>Download Verification<br>=====================<br><br>Description File Name Sha1sum<br>Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.bz2
af38413420eaa783d20f2db189aef408be844048<br>Source scribus-1.4.0.tar.xz 0e3afb98a56084c2938a8402df2d89214c42b809<br>OS X Leopard or higher (DMG) scribus-1.4.0.dmg eae5adacdc207f4bda6136dc48c26b83dcbf6b9a<br>OS X Leopard or higher (PKG) scribus-1.4.0.pkg 64df9a61b33183dbc85b9a3090a648c75f320640<br>Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.4.0-windows.exe 268b9e8658528677ceac6252dae348c49643d159<br>OS/2 / eComStation scribus-1.4.0-os2ecs.zip 4fe0b3cf562cda4e1b78bf89a2340bb868610014<br><br><br><br>Credits<br>=======<br><br>The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of<br>the Scribus websites.<br>We are also
grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and<br>Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.<br>As of July 2011, the Scribus Team is also pleased to welcome Resene Colours (New Zealand) and<br>Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of colour palettes which are part<br>of the 1.4.0 release.<br>Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and<br>contributors who helped us with this important release.<br><br><br>About Scribus<br>=============<br><br>Scribus is an Open Source program for professional page layout with press-ready output to PDF files.<br>Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features,<br>such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF<br>creation.<br><br>___<br>Scribus Mailing List: <a ymailto="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net"
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