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)

Featured Selection

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Now you can create real tables in Scribus, merge cells, split them.

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Scribus now supports footnotes and welding together frames (welding)

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Support for new PDF formats

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EPub export (still in development)

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Better support for dictionnaries (hungspell, scribus can load the dictionaries from its server)

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All palettes can be docked on the left or right side of the window

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

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Now you can easily add new rows and columns to an existing table

Resize cells

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Split and merge cells

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Fit the table to the frame

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Footnotes and welded text

Improvements to text frames

Improvements to the linking tool

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You can now create new frames while in linking mode and they will be automatically linked.

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Improvements to the GUI

Dockable palettes

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Master pages merged into the arrange pages palette

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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/