Hi Christoph Congrats on the great release, it brings many things we've wanted for years. :)
As soon as we can build it in Archlinux [1] we'll switch to it as our daily driver. Cheers [1] https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus/issues/89 2017-05-29 1:01 GMT-03:00 "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schae...@gmx.de>: > The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release > 1.5.3, another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0. > In addition to being a milestone in terms of typographic features, the > Scribus Team is convinced that 1.5.3 has become stable enough to be used in > new workflows and documents in a similar way to the transition from 1.3.3.x > to 1.4.0 after the release of version 1.3.6. However, care must be taken, > because this is still a development release. > Scribus 1.5.3 is very fast and has been thoroughly tested. Generally, > everything that works reliably in 1.4.x also works in 1.5.3, but it's > faster and more versatile. On top of that, it includes additional and > already overwhelmingly reliant features galore. > > Most Important Changes > ====================== > - The most important change isn't immediately visible, namely a completely > rewritten text layout engine, which supports complex scripts like Arabic, > Hindi or Thai, as well as providing access to advanced OpenType features, > such as ligatures and alternate glyphs. > - Altogether, about 500 languages and/or scripts are supported. Please > note that as of version 1.5.3, Scribus is supposed to render these diverse > writing systems, which still needs thorough testing by those who are > familiar with them. > - Typing on the canvas and text rendering in general has become a lot > faster. > - Previews for fonts are now available in font selectors. > - The "Text" tab has been removed from the Properties Palette and is now a > separate UI palette. > - The performance of copying and pasting objects in/from/to files with > huge color palettes has been vastly improved. > - An import filter for Krita's KRA format has been added. > - Scribus now follows the XDG standard for configuration files. Therefore, > the Scribus preferences directory has moved from ~/.scribus/ to a new > default location: ~/.config/scribus/ > - Color selectors display the color values as a tooltip. > - A longstanding problem with the launch option for an external image > editing program has been resolved. Until version 1.5.3 it was necessary to > manually close the external program before it could be started again from > within Scribus. This is no longer necessary. > - The "Wikipedia RAL Classic" color palette has been updated, this time > using Wikipedia's LAB color values. > - A script called "Caption" has been included, which adds a text frame to > an image frame, based on the latter's proportions. > - The "Autoquote" scripts now supports inverted guillemets via the "de-g" > parameter. > - Code improvements have been made based on recommendations from using > both the Coverity scan tool (https://scan.coverity.com/) and the "clazy" > tool (https://github.com/KDE/clazy). These changes improved efficiency, > removed bugs and improved security. > - Countless bugs, mostly introduced with the new features in earlier > releases of 1.5.x, have been fixed. For details see the 1.5.3svn changelog ( > https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=102) > > New Dependencies > ================ > - As of version 1.5.3, the minimum Qt version to compile the program is > 5.5. > - harfbuzz and libicu, as well as the related development packages are now > required. > > Caveats > - Some newly introduced features, like footnotes, may not function as > desired, at least not yet. > - The file format may undergo some changes between the current release and > 1.6.0, so we advise caution when it comes to workflows that use automated > document generation or parsing. > - Vertical writing systems aren't supported for the time being, but > support will be added in a later release. > - The Online Help hasn't been completely updated, and it won't be until > the final 1.6.0 release. > > Special Credits > =============== > - This version builds significantly on the code from 1.5.2 with the work > that the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, led by Khaled Hosny, > delivered. > - 1.5.3 uses all of the remainder of the code, and we have Fahad Al-Saidi > to thank for his continued work and especially for the bug triaging and > code changes. > - Andreas Vox introduced a layout cache to speed up text rendering. > - William Bader has fixed the issue of launching several instances of an > external image editing program. > - Contributions to GUI translations via participants on the Transifex > translation platform > > Primary Download Locations > ========================== > - Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux AppImage and the > source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/ > projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.3/ > - Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/ > repositories/home:/mrdocs > - OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/ > repositories/home:/mrdocs > - Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana > is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository > data on a regular basis. > - Windows Portable App: http://portableapps.com/apps/ > office/scribus_portable#test > > Download Verification > ===================== > > Please visit the official announcement on https://wiki.scribus.net/ > canvas/1.5.3_Release for Sha256 and Sha1 checksums. > > Expectations for Scribus 1.5.4 > ============================== > - An entire rebuild of the palette system used in Scribus, enabling a > cleaner and more flexible GUI > - Updates to dependencies, with a likely increase to Qt 5.6 > - Migration of build systems or targeted versions of operating systems to > later versions > > Credits > ======= > The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their > continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. > > We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and > Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring. > > The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp > studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), > the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services > (USA), freieFarbe e.V. (Germany), bauwerk Kommunikationsdesign (Germany) as > Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content since the > 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for > the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates. > Porting Scribus to OS/2 and eComStation is being supported by Serenity > Systems (USA). > > Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, > translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release. > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- 1111.1010.r.i.1101|n.o.i.s.1110|i.m.1010.g.1110|مقاومة fsf member #5439 usuario GNU/Linux #471966 |_|0|_| |_|_|0| |0|0|0| <a href="http://www.gunga.com.br">gunga</a> <a href="http://www.tempoecoarte.com.br">tempoecoarte</a> <a href="http://www.atelier-labs.org">atelier-labs</a> <a href="http://www.mocambos.net">rede mocambos</a>
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