[dot] Scribus Team Releases First 1.2 Release Candidate

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1093023212/

From: scribusdocs <>
Dept: are-we-there-yet?
Date: Friday 20/Aug/2004, @19:33

Scribus Team Releases First 1.2 Release Candidate
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   The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate
for the upcoming Scribus [http://www.scribus.org.uk/] 1.2. The Scribus
team urges all users and distros to use this latest release and test
thoroughly. The Scribus 1.2 stable release, planned for later this
summer, encapsulates over a year of development building on the original
1.0 release. Already, Scribus is being used in commercial settings
including a new weekly newspaper launched this spring. The Scribus Team
will be presenting at aKademy [http://conference2004.kde.org/] on using
KDE and Scribus.

     Among the major new features of Scribus 1.2:
    * A new story editor, complete with style and formatting functions.
      Performance, stability and ease of use have been greatly enhanced.
    * Several new plug-ins, including exporting documents in many image
      formats, a font previewer and special hyphenation rules for Czech
      and other languages.
    * Many significant upgrades to the PDF exporter, including the
      ability to export gradients with transparency, Open Type Fonts,
      set linescreen, automatically adjust compression type and other
      advanced features.
    * A New Template and Save As Template function to make it easy for
      new users to create documents, as well as create new templates.
    * Over 250 bug fixes and feature requests have been implemented.
    * A new EPS/PS importer, which can import EPS/PS and then edit the
      imported vector objects as Scribus native objects.
    * Many improvements to the SVG importer/exporter. Scribus now can
      handle most types of gradients, including transparency in imported
      SVG.
    * Dozens of new keyboard accelerators and extensive tooltips
      throughout.
    * A new print previewer, which has the ability to render CMYK
      separations on screen, transparency, UCR (Under Color Removal)
      giving users a true postscript generated preview of the page.
    * Many enhancements to text frames including multi-columned text,
      baseline grids, new contour options, tabs and drop caps.
    * A new table feature to create basic tables within Scribus.
    * Extended support for right to left languages, including Hebrew and
      Arabic. Scribus is now translated into 25 languages with more to
      come.


     The Scribus Team wishes to thank the many contributions and support
we have received from users, bug reporters and packagers who have helped
to bring Scribus to a new level.

     Downloads, docs and sample files are available at
http://www.scribus.net [http://www.scribus.net/]. Please direct bug
reports and feature requests to http://bugs.scribus.net.
 [http://bugs.scribus.net/]