Hi all,

A quick note to let you all know the following:

We are planning a 1.1.7 release towards the end of the next week.

Interesting for Inkscape users:

1) a whole bunch of new gradient features which match closely to Inkscape output. e.g. mulit color gradients, free radial gradients, free linear gradients and transparency adjustable within each gradient color.

Tomorrow's CVS will have the missing controls in place. The toughest part is getting acceptable PS,PDF output.

2) Much improved Inkscape > Scribus importing. Franz has killed a couple more import bugs with colors. Gradients should match up almost perfectly now.

3) Scribus now has a new EPS/PS importer which can import EPS or PS as vector or outlines and edit them natively in Scribus and/or export as SVG. This relies on Ghostscript, so the newer GS, the better.

We hope all the inkscape devels / hard core users get a chance to play, test and report anything amiss. Franz specifically mentioned he worked on this to match up to Inkscape output. http://bugs.scribus.net is our tracker, which is being upgraded as I write. We expect it back up tomorrow.

Next up is the text import ;)

Enjoy,

Peter