[dot] Scribus Team Releases 1.3.1 - Unit?

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From: mrdocs <>
Dept: these-funny-french-words
Date: Tuesday 04/Oct/2005, @18:21

Scribus Team Releases 1.3.1 - Unité
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   The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.1
[http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=106],
Unité. The 1.3.1 release is the second development version towards a new
stable 1.4.  This release brings new features never before available in
any open source application including spot colour printing, intelligent
colour wheel, in-line graphics, variable page sizes and ICC colour
support.  There has also been work towards Cairo support and a native
Windows version and an initial MacOS X native build is available.

    * Scribus now natively supports spot colour printing for true
      DeviceN colour space support, natively rendering spot colours,
      with no maximum limit to the number of spot colours. Scribus uses
      enhanced spot and separation previews for previewing all
      separations when a new version of Ghostscript is available. The
      new spot colour support can also convert spot colours into
      composite CMYK in both print and PDF export. DeviceN support works
      with both EPS and PDF export.
    * This release also adds support for displaying colours and making
      colour choices with an intelligent colour wheel for colour schemes
      and for individuals with colour viewing impairments. This is a
      first, we believe, for any page layout application.
    * Scribus text frames now support in-line graphics, both images
      along with scaled vector drawings.
    * Additional code, patches and fixes for Win32 and Mac OSX
      compatibility. Substantial progress has been made for both
      platforms and an initial 1.3.1 release of Scribus for MacOS X is
      available. A Win32 native release is hoped to be available for one
      of the next 1.3.x releases.
    * Scribus now has a Calendar Creation Wizard python plug-in with
      support for several languages.
    * New experimental, optional build time support for using the Cairo
      graphics library as a rendering engine. Currently, there are some
      minor performance issues, however, most notably gradient display
      is improved.
    * Many improvements in page and document layout. Scribus now
      supports variable page sizes and orientations within a single
      document, as well as when printing or exporting PDF.
    * Implemented a new startup dialogue with more options for creating,
      or opening recent and existing documents.
    * Continued improvements in ICC colour support including searching
      system directories for ICC profiles. Scribus 1.3.1+ now supports
      the proposed OpenICC specification for colour management profiles.

     The Scribus Team would also like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby
Consulting [http://anduin.net] and n at work GmbH, Hamburg
[http://www.work.de/] for gracefully sponsoring our Scribus
Documentation [http://docs.scribus.net] site, our Bug Tracker
[http://bugs.scribus.net] and Anonymous CVS server. Also, a note of
thanks to University of Salford - School of Media, Music and Performance
[http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/] for providing continued hosting of our
website including upgrading the server hardware.


  I. GETTING SCRIBUS 1.3.1

     You can:

    * Download source tarballs and document templates and RPMs from our
      Sourceforge Download page
      [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235] or
      scribus.org.uk downloads page
    * For Debian and Kubuntu repositories, visit Scribus Debian
      Repository.

     The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users,
testers and contributors to making this our finest release to date.