1.4.3 Release
Scribus 1.4.3 Released, Providing a Port to Haiku OS, New Professional Color Palettes and QR Barcode Support
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.3. Like the previous version, this is mostly a bugfixing release, but there are also some important enhancements:
- Scribus has been ported to the Haiku operating system. For more information see: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Installing_Scribus_on_Haiku
- The Barcode Writer has been updated and supports many more barcodes, including QR.
- Scribus now supports Pillow as an alternative to the Python Imaging Library.
- Galaxy Gauge (TM) color palettes.
- More Open Source color palettes.
- Improvements to the build system.
- Improvements to the Preflight Verifier.
- The Short Words plug-in now supports Danish.
- Many Documentation updates.
Most important bugfixes:
- Disabled hyphenation on some Linux distributions is working again.
- Some unit conversion issues have been fixed.
For a complete list of changes see:
The Scribus Team would like to thank Giovanni Mugnai for porting Scribus to Haiku, as well as Christian Hitz for updating the Barcode Writer. We are especially grateful to Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA) for making the Galaxy Gauge color swatches available to Scribus users and joining the group of Scribus's Special Supporters.
Primary Download Locations
- Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/
- Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net/
- Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
- OpenSUSE, SLED and Mandriva RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
- A ZIP archive for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation will be available soon under: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/
- An installer for Haiku will be available soon under: http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/productivity/desktop-publishing/scribus-publishing-and-layout
- All download options are listed at: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download
Download Verification
| Description | File Name | Sha1sum |
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| Source | ||
| OS X Leopard or higher (DMG) | ||
| OS X Leopard or higher (PKG) | ||
| Windows 32/64 Bit | ||
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| Windows PortableApps.com Format | ||
| OS/2 and eComStation | ||
| Haiku Installer |
Credits
The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.
We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (France) and Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.
The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), GiveLife Color System (Spain), and Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA) as Special Supporters and donors of colour palettes since the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates.
Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.
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