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Now you can create real tables in Scribus, merge cells, split them. | 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) | Scribus now supports footnotes and welding together frames (welding) | ||
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Revision as of 18:15, 14 June 2012
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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
Now you can create real tables in Scribus, merge cells, split them. |
Scribus now supports footnotes and welding together frames (welding) |
File:Example.jpg
Support for new PDF formats : PDF X/1-a |
| File:Example.jpg
EPub export (still in development) |
File:Example.jpg
Better support for dictionnaries (hunspell, scribus can load the dictionaries from its server) |
File:Example.jpg
All palettes can be docked on the left or right side of the window |
| File:Example.jpg
The new Scripter engine brings a better integration in Scribus and a enhanced API |
File:Example.jpg
... |
File:Example.jpg
... |
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
You can now create new frames while in linking mode and they will be automatically linked. |
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.
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/