Scribus 1.2 Released [LWN.net]

From:		Plinnell <scribusdocs-AT-atlantictechsolutions.com>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		ANNOUNCE Scribus 1.2 Released
Date:		Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:08:34 +0100

Scribus 1.2
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Open Source Desktop Publishing

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.2 - Open
Source Desktop Publishing. The 1.2 release is the culmination of over 1 year
of hard work since last year's 1.0 release. The Scribus team urges all users
and distros to use this latest release.

The Scribus Team is also proud to announce the first commercial
implementation of Scribus for commercial newspaper production. Last month,
the premier issue of Twin Tier Times, a US weekly newspaper was launched
using a production workflow centered on Scribus and other Open Source
applications including GIMP 2.0, Inkscape and others.

Among the major changes and features in 1.2 since the release of Version 1.0:

 * A new EPS/PS importer, which can import EPS and PS files as vector or
postscript outlines, which can then be edited as native Scribus objects.
 * A dedicated documentation site, http://docs.scribus.net has been
implemented. There are French and German translations in progress.
 * Over 800 bug reports and user feature requests have been squashed.
 * Scribus now features a New from/ Save as Template plug-in, which enables
end users to quickly generate preformatted documents. This is useful for both
first time users, as well as experts.
 * The Scribus GUI is now translated into 27 languages.
 * Scribus 1.2 features new print previewer which has the ability to render
CMYK separations on screen, transparency, UCR (Under Color Removal) to give
users a true postscript generated preview of the page.
* A new table feature to create basic tables within Scribus.
 * Many enhancements to text frames including multi-columned text, baseline
grids, new contour options, tabs and drop caps.
  * Several new plug-ins for exporting documents as images, as well as
 special typography plug-ins for Czech, French and other languages.

Scribus was chosen by Trolltech as one of their "Cool Applications". We on
the Scribus Team are honored to be recognized as such and appreciate the
recognition.

The Scribus Team will present the first public demo at KDE Community World
Summit 2004 "aKademy" 21-29 August, 2004 Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart Region),
Germany.

Enjoy!

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Scribus 1.2 Released

Posted Sep 2, 2004 16:27 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link]

One very odd thing that I have found with Scribus (and this is taken from this present 1.2 version) is that when editing in a text frame (not in the story editor), changing a style parameter (font, size, paragraph alignment, etc.) does not affect the entire selection--it only changes the paragraph associated with the last mousedown inside the frame. (At least this is the closest I can come to finding a pattern to the behavior.) Maybe it's just me, but when I do a "Select All" and then select a new font, I expect the font to change throughout the entire selection. Call me crazy, I guess... Note that this behavior is not the same in the story editor; the changes happen as one would expect there. However, since the editor supports only one font (with no stylistic options--no bold or italic marking within the story, not to mention no way to select those variations in the first place) it's rather difficult to see the changes until the frame is updated in the main document.

One more thing... does anyone know how to get Scribus to subset fonts when exporting to PDF? It does a form of subsetting with CFF-style OpenType fonts, but that only consists of making a set of PostScript procedures, one for the outlines of each glyph, and calling them in sequence when rendering the text. This is not what I'd call good subsetting. And it appears to embed the whole font when exporting to PDF with TrueType fonts, rather than subsetting. (??)