-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a real milestone. I think this is even more significant than the 1.0 release, because it marks Scribus' arrival as a *full-featured, professional-level, multi-platform* page layout tool. (I'm reluctant to use the word "desktop publishing," as one does not usually use that term to describe Quark or InDesign.) I'm using the Mac-Aqua build on a weekly basis in a production setting in my book publishing company without hesitation.
Thanks and congratulations to all the Scribus team members for the superb work. It's a real pleasure, as a professional-level user, to see Scribus come fully into bloom. Cheers, Kevin Walzer, PhD WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X http://www.wordtech-software.com http://www.kevin-walzer.com http://www.smallbizmac.com. mailto:sw at wordtech-software.com Craig Bradney wrote: | The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of the next | generation of Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing. | | The aim for this release is to bring improvements and enhancements for both | professionals and beginning users alike. 1.3.0 improves Scribus' abilities in | areas like performance, accessibility and workflow. With this release, we | also commence support for Scribus running natively on Windows and Mac OS X. | | While it is very stable and usable, there are a number of under the hood | changes which will continue through the 1.3.x series | | - Work is on-going to make Scribus more platform independent and alpha quality | builds of Scribus are already working on Win32 and Mac OS X. A native Mac OS | X build is available at http://aqua.scribus.net | | - There is a new undo system, which includes an undo palette that has the undo | history with details of each action. Undo also has object specific | capabilities. The number of undo/redo steps can be set in the preferences. | | - Revised document and application preferences. Extensive attention has been | placed on making preferences easier to use with document and application | preferences distinctly separated. | | - Scribus now has "scratch space" which can be used to store objects partially | or fully off the page. | | - Scribus can now generate Tables of Contents, based on user | definable/selectable attributes. | | - Scribus now has its own built-in pre-flight verifier for printing or | exporting to PDF. The pre-flighter is designed to look for issues which might | cause problems when printing or exporting PDF. | | - More professional DTP features like adding ciceros for measurement units and | support. Scribus now has true facing page support and page objects such as | images can span them. | | - Scribus now has more extensive support for CMYK images, as well as clipping | paths in TIFF files, CMYK-JPEG, as well as new support for native Photoshop ? | PSD files. 16-bit RGB/CMYK TIFF and PSD support will follow soon. ICC color | management of for these image formats is also upgraded. | | - New image effect features including tinting, greyscaling, blurring, | colorizing and sharpening. | | - Scribus 1.3.0 now supports PDF 1.5 features including layers in PDF. | | - Scribus 1.3.0 uses an intermediary file format based on the Scribus 1.2.x | format. The new format to finally replace this intermediary format is in | design and development stages and its implementation will begin soon. | | | For future development versions, we will be announcing competitions for icon | sets and splashscreens. | | The Scribus Team would also like to thank Anduin.net/?verby Consulting and | n at work GmbH, Hamburg for gracefully sponsoring our Scribus Documentation | site, our Bug Tracker and Anonymous CVS server. Also, a note of thanks to | University of Salford - School of Media, Music and Performance for providing | continued hosting of www.scribus.net and upgrading the server hardware. | | | Getting Scribus 1.3.0 | You can: | | Download from our Sourceforge page: | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 | | Download from www.scribus.net under: 1.3.0 Downloads | | Get the MacOSX build from http://aqua.scribus.net | | View some screenshots of the various versions at | http://scribus.sourceforge.net/gallery/ (to be updated in the coming days) | | | | regards | Craig | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | Scribus mailing list | Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de | http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1yOCJmdQs+6YVcoRAhMJAJ4/5NgLv1A/vUEUCwRV8Ka06wfwoACfdsKT TvKAL2pRawsU3oyBVTP1nBg= =p484 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
