1.6-new-features-and-fixes

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)

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File:Example.jpg Now you can create real tables in Scribus, merge cells, split them.	File:Example.jpg Scribus now supports footnotes and welding together frames (welding)	File:Example.jpg Support for new PDF formats
File:Example.jpg EPub export (still in development)	File:Example.jpg Better support for dictionnaries (hungspell, scribus can load the dictionaries from its server)

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

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.

Credits

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