Author: jghali
Date: Sun Apr 29 00:49:34 2018
New Revision: 22492
URL: http://scribus.net/websvn/listing.php?repname=Scribus&sc=1&rev=22492
Log:
#15273: Updated README
Modified:
trunk/Scribus/README
Modified: trunk/Scribus/README
URL:
http://scribus.net/websvn/diff.php?repname=Scribus&rev=22492&path=/trunk/Scribus/README
==============================================================================
--- trunk/Scribus/README (original)
+++ trunk/Scribus/README Sun Apr 29 00:49:34 2018
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
Please note that the file format has changed and is not backwardly compatible
with any prior stable version (1.4.x or earlier). To be precise, you will not
be able to open 1.5.x files with version 1.4.x or any earlier version.
-Also note that the 1.5.x series is not an officially stable version. Instead,
all 1.5.x versions are development candidates of the upcoming stable Scribus
1.6.0! If you try to do some serious work with 1.5.x, you do so at your own
peril. That being said, the Scribus Team considers Scribus 1.5.2 to be stable
enough to be used for daily work. Features that are already in 1.4.x will work
as reliably and in many cases even better than in 1.4.x.
+Also note that the 1.5.x series is not an officially stable version. Instead,
all 1.5.x versions are development candidates of the upcoming stable Scribus
1.6.0! If you try to do some serious work with 1.5.x, you do so at your own
peril. That being said, the Scribus Team considers Scribus 1.5.4 to be stable
enough to be used for daily work. Features that are already in 1.4.x will work
as reliably and in many cases even better than in 1.4.x.
==General==
-Qt 5: As of version 1.5.3, Scribus is being built using version 5.5 of the Qt
toolkit.
+Qt 5: As of version 1.5.4, Scribus is being built using version 5.5 of the Qt
toolkit.
More dependencies: Scribus 1.5.x makes extensive use of many more external
libraries than earlier versions, especially for import filters. In most cases
Scribus needs to be explicitly compiled against these libraries, so they become
dependencies. In other cases (e.g. UniConvertor), Scribus will detect an
installed version automatically. Note that full support for some libraries may
not be available on Mac OS X and Windows until the final 1.6.0 release.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
- Background colors for glyphs.
- Foot- and endnotes.
-- Freely definable text variables.
+- Freely defineable text variables.
- Text references.
- Anchored text frames.
- Automatic numbering and bullets.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
===The unified Colors & Fills Manager===
-- More supported color palette formats: Scribus can now read and use swatches
from Adobe Photoshop (ACO), AutoCAD (ACB), Swatchbooker (SBZ), as well as Adobe
Swatch Exchange files (ASE) and the new ISO standard, CxF3.
+- More supported color palette formats: Scribus can now read and use swatches
from Adobe Photoshop (ACO), AutoCAD (ACB), Swatchbooker (SBZ), as well as Adobe
Swatch Exchange files (ASE).
- More gradient fills: Scribus can import GIMP gradients via the âColors &
Fillsâ dialog. Moreover, the number of available gradient options in Scribus
has grown significantly and includes, among others, mesh gradients.
- Hatchings: As of this version, Scribus supports real vector hatchings with
various options.
- New frame stroke and line options: All types of lines, including frame
strokes, can now use a gradient or a pattern instead of only a color.
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@
===New Import Filters===
-- Adobe PageMaker: Scribus 1.5 includes an early version of a filter for files
created in versions 6.5 and 7.0 of the once popular DTP program. It uses
libpagemaker
+- Adobe PageMaker: Scribus 1.5 includes an early version of a filter for files
created in versions 6.5 and 7.0 of the once popular DTP program. It uses
libpagemaker.
+- Color Exchange Format (CXF): CXF v. 3 is an ISO standard created to
facilitate colour communication for various output targets, e.g. web or various
print targets. It permits more than one version of a colour palette in a single
file. Since it is also used for ink mixing formulas, the Scribus Team had to
implement support for spectral colours. Spectral colours will be converted to
L*a*b* upon import.
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM): CGM is a 2D vector format standard that
has been around for a long time and is still being developed, especially for
technical drawings. The new filter is supposed to import most CGM files
correctly.
- CorelDraw (CDR, CDT, CMX): Thanks to the tireless work on libcdr, Scribus
can now import files created by CorelDraw from version 1 to the present.
Moreover, adding support for libcdr not only allows for importing CDR files,
but also CorelDraw Templates (CDT) and CorelDraw Presentations Exchange (CMX)
files.
- Enhanced Metafile (EMF): EMF files are 32-bit versions of the 16-bit Windows
Metafile Format (WMF), which has already been supported by Scribus 1.4.x.
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@
- Open Raster File (ORA): Open Raster is an open standard for complex bitmap
files. Itâs supported by all major Free image editors, including GIMP and
Krita.
- Photoshop Custom Shapes (CSH): CSH is a vector format used for simple vector
graphics collections in Adobe Photoshop. They can be imported via the new
"Custom Shapes" manager.
- Progressive Graphics File (PGF): This is a fairly new image format, designed
to replace JPEG, just like JPEG 2000 does, but emphasizing speed and quality
over compression ratio.
-- QuarkXPress (QXD, QXT): An importer for QuarkXPress files has been made
possible by the creation of libqxp, wich is also used for QuarkXPress import
into LibreOffice. It is supposed to import at least QuarkXPress versions
3.1â4.1.
+- QuarkXPress (QXD): An importer for QuarkXPress files has been made possible
by the creation of libqxp, wich is also used for QuarkXPress import into
LibreOffice. It is supposed to import at least QuarkXPress versions 3.1â4.1.
- Rich Text Format (RTF): One of the most widely used exchange formats for
formatted text, RTF is also very common in DTP workflows and can be exported by
almost every word processor since the 90s.
- StarView Metafile (SVM): This is an old Metafile format (similar to WMF)
that was used by OpenOfficeâs / LibreOfficeâs predecessor StarOffice. Since
both successors still use SVM in - OpenDocument Graphics, the SVM import filter
was a by-product of the new ODG filter.
- UniConvertor Plug-in: As with the GraphicsMagick plug-in, Scribus wonât
list any of the file types supported by UniConvertor to save space in file
selectors. It will also ignore UniConvertor for importing file formats for
which Scribus provides generic importers.
@@ -157,9 +158,11 @@
For the 1.5/1.6 series, the online manual now uses a CSS file to control and
enhance the appearance of the text. The file is called manual.css, and like
many aspects of Scribus can be modified to your liking. If available, the file
will choose the typeface Fontin for various headings. This is a freely
available font which can easily be added to your system.
Note that the Online Manual will probably not be updated until the release of
the stable 1.6.x series.
-==Known Issues in 1.5==
+==Known Issues in 1.5.x==
- Properties Palette functionality has grown significantly and needs to be
split into separate palettes later in the 1.5.x series.
-- Certain scripts that come bundled with Scribus may not work.
+- Undo/Redo functionality may not be reliable for certain new features yet.
+- Certain older scripts that come bundled with Scribus may not work.
+- Some of the "Table" settings in the Properties Palette don't work.
+- Some text features related to numbering (e.g. lists, footnotes) do not work
properly yet.
-
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