Scribus 1.1.0 released

09:12:2003

                    News Item for Immediate Release

Programmer Franz Schmid is pleased to announce the release of Scribus
1.1.0 - Linux Desktop Publishing, which builds upon the recently released
Scribus 1.0, as well as the launching of an integrated Scribus web site at www.scribus.org.uk 

Two years in development and now available in 21 languages, Scribus 
represents the first open source graphical WYSIWYG DTP application capable of
generating professional "press-ready" results.

New features in Scribus 1.1.0:
      * A completely new rendering engine. The new rendering engine has
        up to 5x faster rendering of graphics and text, as well as
        improved rendering of text and graphics with full anti-aliased
        type. The new engine also displays full transparency and
        gradients on screen. 
      * Screen shot:
        www.scribus.org.uk/documentation/images/textdisplay2.png
      * A new SVG import plug-in, giving Scribus the ability to import
        and then edit SVG artwork. Thus, you can create illustrations in
        Sketch or Sodipodi and import them directly into Scribus. 
      * The plug-in imports a large majority of the SVG 1.1 test suite
        files. 
      * There is a new Type Style - Outlined 
      * Keywords can now be included in exported PDF files. 
      * Support for Black Point Compensation with littlecms 1.11 - this
        improves the rendering of many photographic images. 
      * Strokes and fills can have variable transparency. 
      * There is now a zoom function for the Special Character Insert
        panel. 
      * The help viewer now has a drop down history button. 
      * Page Templates update the page when they are updated or changed.
        Page Templates can be applied to more than one page.


Among the major features of Scribus:
      * A modern user friendly interface developed with Qt3. Scribus can
        run on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and soon Mac OSX. An
        experimental version running on Cygwin and Windows 2000 is in
        testing. 
      * Unicode support including support for right to left scripts such
        as Arabic and Hebrew. 
      * Can export CMYK separations and "press-ready" PDF including PDF
        1.4 features such as transparency, 128 bit encryption. 
      * The only DTP application to create fully ISO compliant PDF/X-3
        files. 
      * A powerful PDF export engine capable of creating fully
        interactive PDF forms, presentation effects and encrypted PDF. 
      * ICC color management via the littlecms color management engine. 
      * Powerful cross-platform Python Scripting language extending
        Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling
        external applications within Scribus. 
      * Uses XML as a native file format. The Scribus XML format has
        been fully documented. 


The Scribus Team:
Programming / Original Author Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid at
altmuehlnet.de 
Code Review and API Documentation Paul F. Johnson paulf.johnson at
ukonline.co.uk
English Documentation and Testing Peter Linnell scribusdocs at
atlantictechsolutions.com
Many contributions and translations from users.

Scribus Home Page: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/  
mirrored at:
http://www.scribus.org.uk/  
http://scribus.planetmirror.com
http://mirrors.ntua.gr/Scribus/
http://scribus.ipc.one.pl/


On line documentation and specs:
http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/  
mirrored at: 
http://www.scribus.org.uk/documentation/
http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/

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