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
The development of Scribus 1.6 has been focused on:
 * Improving the user interface
 * Improving the productivity
 * Adding new text based elements

Tables
Thanks to GSoC_2011_Tables_Proposal Elvis's 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.

Misc changes and features
These 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
 * patterns can be used for borders and create fancy borders
 * symbols! patterns and symbols can be further edited
 * improvements to the outline palette (move up and down, in and out of groups, preview)

Credits
This page has been heavily inspired by http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/