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Scribus Handbook On Line
Program Author Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de
Documentation by Peter Linnell scribusdocs@atlantictechsolutions.com
There is now a Scribus mailing list on-line at: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus.
There is both a English and German language interface to the mailing list manager.
Version 0.9.8 , Documentation Updated 2003:3:26
The help browser in 0.9.8 has added some: Hints (click here), , which give a short explanation of a term, or may offer additional explanatory info on a subject. To close, just click on the area of the hint.
Recent Additions to the Documentation
What's in Scribus 0.9.8 ? (Released 2003:03:26)
- A new measurements palette
- You can now zoom In and out withe the Mouse Wheel when you hold the Shift-Key whilst rotating the Wheel.
- The Postscript Driver can now seperate RGB-Images too. The only thing that doesn't work are Gradient Fills of Objects on Template Pages.
- The PDF-Exporter converts now RGB-Images to CMYK when Destination Printer is
selected.
Releases between 0.8 stable and 0.9.7 devel (Released 2003:2:08) have added:
- Completed the PDF-Exporter.
- New Bookmarks Palette.
- Added a Danish Translation and Hyphenation.
- Added a Slovak Hyphenation.
- Moved the English Documentation to a seperate Package.
- Moved the Sample Files to a seperate Package.
- Updated the Scripter and SVG-Export Plugin to work with Scribus-0.9.7
- Added a Command to save everything into a Folder to ease moving Files.
- The big news is support for the creation of PDF/X-3 compliant PDF's. This is a
major advance in the capabilties for Scribus to produce "press-ready" PDF's suitable for
use in commercial printing. Info and PDF/X-3 Q and A
- Added support for CUPS. You can access the CUPS settings directlt within the Scribus
print dialog. With Cups Gimp-Print, you will get the best quality printing from inkjets
and other printers supported by Gimp-Print.
- Scribus can encrypt PDF's with 128 bit strength.
- The SVG export plug-in has been updated to work with the 0.9.5+ versions of
Scribus.
- Fixed a long standing Bug with Documents printed directly after loading
- Embedding of ICC-Profiles in PDF's is now an option.
- Experimental Support for PDF-1.4 Transparency. There is a check box in the
preferences to enable it. By default it is off. ** Thus, PDF's created with this enabled
will only show transparency in Acrobat Reader 5.0+ or the full version of Acrobat 5.0+
**
- Reworked Font Preferences
- Lots of bugfixes in the Postscript and PDF exporters.
- Scribus installs now in $prefix/lib instead of $prefix/share to be compliant with the
FHS.
- Gradient Fills for all Objects except Pictures
- Guidelines which can be dragged out of the Rulers
- A locking function for objects - both graphic elements and text frames
- A Button in the File Select or File Save As: which navigates to a preferred directory
for saving your Scribus docs - defined in File -> Preferences. This works much
like Star Office or Open Office, if you are familiar with these applications.
- PDF Options are now saved with the Document
- Added a Polish Translation
- A much requested feature, MDI (mulitple document interface) is in Scribus. This give
users the ability to have multiple Scribus Documents open, as well as copy paste/move
objects between documents.
- Some enhancements to the PDF exporter, which reduce memory use
- More features with paragraph styles.
- A Russian hyphenation dictionary has been added. The usual bug fixes....
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