1.5.1 Release

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of the development candidate Scribus 1.5.1, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured version 1.6.0.

An instantly visible improvement is a new and modern icon set, which almost exclusively uses greyscale variants. The Scribus Team takes a bow to Dezso Markon for his wonderful artwork.

Scribus 1.5.1 also provides some exciting new features, the most important of which are:


 * Support for the CIE L*a*b* and CIE HLC color models, which are also available in the color editor;


 * Support for SwatchBooker's SBZ file format, which means, among others, that all color palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection (http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/OCSC_1_0.zip) can be used inside Scribus with their original colour model (CIE L*a*b*) intact;


 * The import filter for XPress Tags is finally working as expected (some minor glitches notwithstanding) and has been tested with XTG files from XPress 3 to 2015;


 * Two oft-requested text import filters have finally made their way into Scribus, namely RTF and DOCX;


 * Scribus 1.5.1 enables applying a background color for selected text and also offers this option for character and paragraph styles;


 * An initial version of an import filter for FreeHand files has been added;


 * The font embedding code, as well as the related user interface, has been completely rewritten;


 * The Resource Manager for online resources provides a new option to show the licence for the respective resource before downloading.

In addition, Scribus 1.5.1 includes countless bugfixes, most of which are related to newly introduced features in 1.5.0.