[dot] Scribus 1.2 Announced at KDE Akademy

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Date: Saturday 28/Aug/2004, @15:49

Scribus 1.2 Announced at KDE Akademy
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   The Scribus [http://www.scribus.org.uk/] Team is pleased to announce
the release of Scribus 1.2
[http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=67&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0]
- Open Source Desktop Publishing. The 1.2 release codenamed "aKademy" is
the culmination of over 1 year of hard work since last year's 1.0
release. The Scribus team urges all users and distros to use this latest
release.

     The Scribus Team is also proud to announce the first commercial
implementation of Scribus for commercial newspaper production. Last
month, the premier issue of Twin Tier Times, a US weekly newspaper was
launched using a production workflow centered on Scribus and other Open
Source applications including GIMP 2.0, Inkscape and others.

     Among the major changes and features in 1.2 since the release of
Version 1.0:

    * A new EPS/PS importer, which can import EPS and PS files as vector
      or postscript outlines, which can then be edited as native Scribus
      objects.
    * A dedicated documentation site, http://docs.scribus.net
      [http://docs.scribus.net/] has been implemented. There are French
      and German translations in progress.
    * Over 800 bug reports and user feature requests have been squashed.
    * Scribus now features a New from/ Save as Template plug-in, which
      enables end users to quickly generate preformatted documents. This
      is useful for both first time users, as well as experts.
    * The Scribus GUI is now translated into 27 languages.
    * Scribus 1.2 features new print previewer which has the ability to
      render CMYK separations on screen, transparency, UCR (Under Color
      Removal) to give users a true postscript generated preview of the
      page.
    * A new table feature to create basic tables within Scribus.
    * Many enhancements to text frames including multi-columned text,
      baseline grids, new contour options, tabs and drop caps.
    * Several new plug-ins for exporting documents as images, as well as
      special typography plug-ins for Czech, French and other languages.

     Scribus was chosen by Trolltech as one of their "Cool
Applications". We on the Scribus Team are honored to be recognized as
such and appreciate the recognition.