Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.4, as well as new partnerships with respect to newspaper publishing.
Scribus 1.4.4 is mostly a bugfixing release, but it also adds a number of new features, some of which are relevant for newspaper production.
It will likely be the last release in the 1.4.x branch, and the Scribus Team will from now on solely focus on the development of the next major version 1.6.
Object Handling
Significant enhancements to Multiple Duplicate.
Transform tools as known from Illustrator.
New options to align and distribute objects.
Advanced multiple object selection.
Text and Typography
Typography:Glyph Extension
Variable First Line Offset for text frames.
Character Styles.
New Style Manager that allows for style hierarchies, cloned styles and style inheritance.
A new glyph selector which allows for the creation of glyph sets that can be s + hared between users.
Major improvements to the hyphenator.
Optical margins to give the impression of a straighter edge with justified text by moving hyphens, commas and parts of certain glyphs slightly into the margin
Text
Basic spellchecking via aspell (not available for Windows, OS/2 and eComStation).
New text variable: Number of pages.
Undo/Redo is finally available for text-related actions.
Vector Tools
New default shapes.New Path Tools, like Boolean path operations, lens effects or mesh distortion.
More options for text on path.
Pre-press
Enhancements to the Print Preview, like indication of ink coverage.Improvements to the Preflight Verifier.
New pre-press features, like bleed and printing marks.
Optional conversion of spot colors to process colors.
PDF Export
Support for PDF 1.5 features, e.g. slide effects for PDF presentations or PDF layers.Optional embedding of EPS and PDF files in PDF documents.
Better font subsetting.
Usability
Much work has been spent on major and minor usability improvements throughout the whole program, e.g.:
- A search feature for the Document Outline.
- Many more viewing options, including a document preview without guides and frame borders.
- One-click activation of color management.
- Context menu for the document canvas with options to insert vector graphics directly or to activate viewing options
- Many more options to automate and speed up the insertion of frames (e.g. Insert Frame dialog, Sticky Tools option).
- Enhancements to the Scrapbook.
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