[dot] Scribus Team Releases 1.3.0 - La Libert?

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From: mrdocs <>
Dept: release-early-and-often
Date: Sunday 17/Jul/2005, @19:12

Scribus Team Releases 1.3.0 - La Liberté
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   The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the next generation of
Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing.  The aim for this release is
to bring improvements and enhancements for both professionals and
beginner users alike. 1.3.0 - La Liberté - 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 from
      aqua.scribus.net [http://aqua.scribus.net]
    * 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, coloring and sharpening.
    * Support for 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 the 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/Øverby
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 The University of Salford's School of Media,
Music and Performance for providing continued hosting of www.scribus.net
and upgrading the server hardware.

     Download Scribus from  our 1.3.0 Downloads page
[http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=18]
or view some screenshots [http://scribus.sourceforge.net/gallery/] of
the various versions.