The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.4 ?????

Almost one year in the making, this release brings Scribus to a new plateau in professional print capabilities, innovative features and a completely re-written text layout engine.

Among the major new features in 1.3.4:

* A rewritten preview mode which allows designers and artists to view layouts on screen as readers with color viewing deficiencies would view a document. Thus, this enables a designer to avoid color combinations which affect legibility.

* Major additions to TIFF/PSD support. This includes the ability to use clipping paths in TIFF and PSD files to allow text wrapping.In addition, Scribus now can import special flavors of EPS exported from Photoshop known as Desktop Color Separations (version 1.0 and 2.0). Layers, blend modes, Duo,Tri and Quadtone PSD files are now also supported.

* The new styles and text capabilities include style inheritance for paragraphs, character styles and line styles. This is now managed by a new style manager palette.

* The new text layout engine has a multitude of enhancements for vastly better more appealing justification, including the use of optical margins and more sophisticated word spacing algorithms.

*New pre-press capabilities including, registration marks, crop marks, calibration bars and document meta info. These are all easily managed within the print and PDF export dialogs.

* Color management enhancements including better CMYK > CMYK conversions.
* A rewritten and more capable Scrapbook * Support for patterns; both bitmap and vector * A more capable Align and Distribute Palette * Extended Multiple Copying
*New transparency features including blend modes for layers and individual objects
* A new cross-platform Icon set from the Tango Project

Detailed release notes: (EN)
http://www.scribus.net/releases/1.3.4/Scribus-1.3.4.EN_releasenotes.pdf (DE)
http://www.scribus.net/releases/1.3.4/Scribus-1.3.4.DE_releasenotes.pdf

Downloads: Source and some rpms:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235

Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net Ubuntu users are advised to see:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running

Fedora 5/6 RPMS: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_Extras_6/repodata/ http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_Extras_5/repodata/

Opensuse RPMS 10.0, SLE 10,10.1,10.2: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/

MacOSX: http://aqua.acribus.net

Windows 2000/XP: http://windows.scribus.net

The Scribus Team would also like to thank - Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and Cardia AS for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.

The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release. In particular, Christoph Schäfer for his extensive testing and bug reporting throughout 1.3.4's development.

About Scribus

Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus now runs natively on MacOSX, OS/2, many forms of Unix and Windows 2000/XP.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, spot colors, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was the first page layout application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. Scribus did so by almost a year.