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* Reading (importing?) PDFs.
* Reading (importing?) PDFs.
* A git repository for easier contributions
* A git repository for easier contributions
* The undo should now apply to all tasks.


==The future==
==The future==

Revision as of 11:58, 14 June 2012


@todo: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_hide_the_main_page_title.3F

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

Scribus 16 featured tables.png

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 : 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

...

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...

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

File:Example.jpg

Now you can easily add new rows and columns to an existing table

Resize cells

File:Example.jpg

Split and merge cells

File:Example.jpg

Fit the table to the frame

File:Example.jpg

Footnotes and welded text

Improvements to text frames

Improvements to the linking tool

File:Example.jpg

You can now create new frames while in linking mode and they will be automatically linked.

Widows and orphans control

File:Example.jpg

File:Example.jpg

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Improvements to the GUI

Dockable palettes

File:Example.jpg

Master pages merged into the arrange pages palette

File:Example.jpg

File:Example.jpg

File:Example.jpg

A better integrated and more powerful Scripter

Add menus to the Menus

File:Example.jpg ... and also define shortcuts.

Simple use of Qt dialogs

File:Example.jpg

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.

File:Example.jpg

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/