Scribus 1.3.8

Scribus description
A useful, free and reliable open source page layout program (DTP)

Scribus is a useful, free and reliable open source page layout program (DTP) with the aim of producing conformant commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript., along with extensive support for graphical PDF form and PDF presentations.

While the goals of the program are ease of use and simple easy to understand tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such as CMYK colors, easy PDF creation and Encapsulated Postscript import/export. Other professional features include full ICC color management, spot colors and creation of color separations.

Scribus is used around the world for newspaper production, book publishing and a wide variety of page layout tasks.

First, Scribus was developed first and foremost on Linux and Unix machines, so sometimes the way things work are not always the 'windows way', but a more OS neutral way. Scribus also is natively ported to MacOSX and the behavior changes are mostly in the way the menus work. Second, a great deal of time and effort has been put into Scribus to generate very high quality commercial grade PDF. Provided you follow the recommended workflow in the documentation, you should have few issues with commercial printing.


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What's new in Scribus 1.3.8:
· [Typography] Underlined text's line cut in parts (in PDF) when manual tracking has negative value (jghali) - resolved.
· [Documentation] updated screengrabs, settings1.html, also files which can be deleted (cbradney) - closed.
· [User Interface] Missing accelerators (main menu) (cbradney) - closed.
· [User Interface] Necessary addition to "About > License" (christoph_s) - closed.
· [Scripter] Add missing getPageNSize() and getPageNMargins() to scripter docs (jghali) - closed.
· [User Interface] Toolbars checkboxes (cbradney) - closed.
· [PDF] Line ending arrows are exported incorrectly to PDF if put on master page (jghali) - closed.
· [Documentation] .de man page needs updates (cbradney) - closed.
· [Scripter] patch: wrong value range in setLineWidth command (cbradney) - closed.
· [General] wrong encoding in the about dialog (jghali) - closed.
· [Documentation] man page needs updates (plinnell) - closed.
· [Documentation] Updated AR Toolbox file (cbradney) - closed.
· [Shape Drawing] add resize to align and distribute (cbradney) - closed.
· [Translation] German translation update (jghali) - closed.
· [Language Tools] update hungarian hyphenation patterns (plinnell) - closed.
· [Translation] updated Hungarian translation (jghali) - closed.
· [Story Editor / Text Frames] Misleading tooltip for "flow in lower layer" option in layer palette (jghali) - closed.
· [PDF] inconsistency between gradient display and pdf/svg export (jghali) - closed.
· [General] Scribus 1.3.6 fails to build on OpenBSD because it expects locale_t to be defined (cbradney) - closed.
· [Documentation] Broken link in the IRC doc (cbradney) - closed.
· [Story Editor / Text Frames] Incorrect update of text layout when changing layer properties (jghali) - closed.
· [Story Editor / Text Frames] Copying page fails to copy tab settings for text frame (jghali) - closed.
· [Usability] Vertical destribute always moves up (cbradney) - closed.
· [Story Editor / Text Frames] does not replace the current selection (jghali) - closed.
· [User Interface] Mouse arrow with "minus" symbol remains when moving guideline across the page border and back (jghali) - closed.
· [Import / Export] Unnecessary preview option for text export (jghali) - closed.
· [Usability] Outline Palette incorrectly updated when pasting to page (jghali) - closed.
· [User Interface] Placement of guidelines on the page border causes mouse cursor to remain showing the "move guide" symbol (jghali) - closed.
· [Import / Export] Incorrect import of SVG files that contain tags (jghali) - closed.
· [General] "Save" is disabled after "Collect for Output" (cbradney) - closed.
· [Graphics / Image Frames] Undefined position of imported SVG after rotation (jghali) - closed.
· [Canvas] Can't draw at integral coordinates with certain display dpi settings (jghali) - closed.
· [Win32] potential crash on exit after using image export plugin (jghali) - closed.
· [General] crash when selecting frame after modifying text in story editor (jghali) - closed.
· [PDF] Embedded PDF Shows Upside Down on Exported Output. (jghali) - closed.
· [Styles] Scribus crashes when changing the tabulator position of a paragraph style which hasn't a tabulator at all (jghali) - closed.
· [General] "Hairline" is the default line width - closed.
· [Printing] color printing after preview fails (cbradney) - closed.
· [Graphics / Image Frames] Access violation occurs when pasting something into an image frame which is in "edit frame content" mode (jghali) - closed.
· [Usability] Icons are not shown in menus (cbradney) - closed.