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 : 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)

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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

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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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A better integrated and more powerful Scripter

Add menus to the Menus

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Simple use of Qt dialogs

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An enhanced API

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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/