The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.1 - Unité - Open Source Page Layout. The 1.3.1 release is the second development version towards a new stable 1.4.
Building on the 1.3.0 version released in July, 1.3.1 brings new features never before available in any open source application.
* Scribus now natively supports spot color printing for true DeviceN color space support, natively rendering spot colors, with no maximum limit to the number of spot colors. Scribus uses enhanced spot and separation previews for previewing all separations when a recent version of Ghostscript is available. The new DeviceN color support can also convert spot colors into composite CMYK in both print and PDF export. DeviceN support works with both EPS and PDF export.
* This release also adds support for displaying colors and making color choices with an intelligent color wheel for color schemes and for individuals with color viewing impairments. This is a first, we believe, for any page layout application.
* Scribus text frames now support in-line graphics, both images along with scaled vector drawings.
* Additional code, patches and fixes for Win32 and Mac OSX compatibility. Substantial progress has been made for both platforms and a 1.3.1 release of Scribus for OSX will be available soon. A Win32 native release is hoped to be available for one of the next 1.3.x releases.
* Scribus now has a Calendar Creation Wizard python plug-in with support for several languages.
* New experimental, optional build time support for using the Cairo graphics library as a rendering engine. Currently, there are some minor performance issues, however, most notably gradient display is improved.
* Many improvements in page and document layout. Scribus now supports variable page sizes and orientations within a single document, as well as when printing or exporting PDF. No other page layout application gives designers and end users the ability to use differing size pages and orientation in a single document with such ease.
* Implemented a new startup dialog with more options for creating, or opening recent and existing documents.
* Continued improvements in ICC color support including searching system directories for ICC profiles. Scribus 1.3.1+ now supports the proposed OpenICC specification for color management profiles.
The Scribus Team would also like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and n@...859... GmbH, Hamburg for gracefully sponsoring our Scribus Documentation site, our Bug Tracker and Anonymous CVS server. Also, a note of thanks to University of Salford - School of Media, Music and Performance for providing continued hosting of www.scribus.net and upgrading the server hardware.
Getting Scribus 1.3.1:
You can:
* Download source tarballs and document templates and some rpms from our Sourceforge Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235
* Visit the downloads page here on www.scribus.org.uk for the same.
* Download from our Scribus Docs mirror. http://docs.scribus.net
* For Debian and Ubuntu repositories, visit Scribus Debian Repository. http://debian.scribus.net
The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, testers and contributors to making this our finest release to date.