Scribus 1.3.6 Released
The Scribus Project announced the release of Scribus 1.3.6. This version is another major step on the way to the next stable release 1.4.
Compared to the work on Scribus 1.3.5, the development of Scribus 1.3.6 was focused on stabilizing the code base, and especially on weeding out issues that were mostly due to the porting of the code from Qt3 to Qt4.
Almost 150 bugs have been fixed since the release of 1.3.5. In addition, Scribus 1.3.6 provides some minor enhancements:
- New Scripter functions
- Usability improvements
- Translation updates
- More colour palettes
- Updates to the documentation
- Build instructions for OpenSolaris
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The Scribus Team considers this version to be quite stable and ready for many real-world use cases. However, since there are still some annoyances that prevent the release of version 1.4, more cautious users may want to stick with the officially stable version 1.3.3.14.
The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in a new experimental branch. Once tested and confirmed as working flawlessly, they will be backported and become part of the 1.4 milestone.
Scribus is an open source desktop publishing software. Scribus supports most major image formats including scalable vector graphics (SVG). Professional type/image setting features include CMYK color model (process color, four color – Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black) and ICC (International Color Consortium) color management. It has a built-in scripting engine using Python. It is available in more than 24 languages.
Scribus 1.3.6 is a free software released on 22 March 2010 under the GNU General Public License.
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