Subj : [VOICENWS] SW: Scribus 1.4.3 available for OS/2 & eComStation
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From : VOICE News Service
Date : Fri Aug 02 2013 05:41 am


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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.3. Like the
previous version, this is mostly a bugfixing release, but there are also some
important enhancements:

Scribus has been ported to the Haiku operating system. For more information
see: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Installing_Scribus_on_Haiku

The Barcode Writer has been updated and supports many more barcodes, including
QR.

The Galaxy Gauge™ color matching system and color tools have been included.

New color palettes from government agencies (Canada, Germany, The Netherlands,
United Kingdom) have been included.

More Open Source color palettes have been included.

Improvements to the build system.

Improvements to the Preflight Verifier.

The A4 page size limit of TeX-rendered graphics in Render Frames has been
removed.

The Short Words plug-in now supports Danish.

Many updates to the Online Manual.

Most important bugfixes:

Disabled hyphenation on some Linux distributions is working again.

Some unit conversion issues have been fixed.

Display issues related to Ubuntu's Unity interface have been fixed.

Some fixes to wrong or irritating UI behavior.

Memory management in connection with the new Hyphenator has been optimized.

Issues with the Clang compiler have been fixed.

Scribus now supports Pillow as an alternative to the Python Imaging Library.

Many translation updates.

For a complete list of changes see: http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=86 and http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit

The Scribus Team would like to thank Giovanni Mugnai for porting Scribus to
Haiku, as well as Christian Hitz for updating the Barcode Writer.

We are also especially grateful to Scientific Illustration Services, Inc. (USA)
and Mike Wofsey for making the Galaxy Gauge™ color matching system and
related color tools available to Scribus users under an Open Source licence and
for joining the group of Scribus's Special Supporters.



A ZIP archive for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation is available under:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.3

Links:

* http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.3_Release
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