1.6-new-features-and-fixes
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New features and fixes in Scribus 1.5svn
This page gives you a rundown of the new features in the next release of Scribus (version 1.5svn)
This document is a working progress and will be finalized short before the release of Scribus 1.6.
Featured Selection
Now you can create real tables in Scribus, merge cells, split them. |
Scribus now supports footnotes and glueing together frames (welding) |
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Support for new PDF formats : PDF X/1-a |
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EPub export (still in development) |
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Better support for dictionnaries (hunspell, scribus can load the dictionaries from its server; already in 1.4.2) |
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All palettes can be docked on the left or right side of the window |
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The new Scripter engine brings a better integration in Scribus and a enhanced API |
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Tables
Thanks to Elvis GSOC 2011 project and the improvements by Craig, Jean and Franz Scribus now has Tables that works in a similar way as you're used in word processors.
Adding rows and columns
Now you can easily add new rows and columns to an existing table |
Resize cells |
Split and merge cells | Fit the table to the frame |
Footnotes and welded text
Improvements to text frames
Improvements to the linking tool
File:Example.jpg You can now create new frames while in linking mode and they will be automatically linked. And you can cut a story when unlinking. And click on the overflow box. |
Widows and orphans control |
Improvements to the GUI
Dockable palettes | Master pages merged into the arrange pages palette |
A better integrated and more powerful Scripter
Add menus to the Menus
File:Example.jpg ... and also define shortcuts. |
Simple use of Qt dialogs |
An enhanced API
File:Example.jpg Object oriented and covers more Scribus features. Since it has become lot easier to to new commands, the goal is to cover all Scribus features in the Scripter API. |
Misc changes and features
This features could/should also be integrated above:
- Symbols (linked scrapbook elements)
- Clean up of the preferences dialog
- Support for new PDF standards
- Reading (importing?) PDFs.
- A git repository for easier contributions
- The undo should now apply to all tasks.
- IDML import (Just a small note regarding the scrapbook, you can already use the scrapbook with your idml/idms files, just open a new tab pointing to the folder where the files are stored)
- advanced gradients and mesh gradients
- PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-4 exporting
The future
Planned features
Not fixed bugs
Credits
This page has been heavily inspired by http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/