Understanding all that is does, how, and why, is not something you can pick up by playing around with it for a few minutes. Scribus is large and complex application, designed to create complex documents. As a manual, it is both well-written and, more importantly, well-organized. Much of what is included in the manual is available through the online documentation or built-in Scribus help, but in book form this is an especially effective guide to using and understanding Scribus. This manual, published in May by FLES Books. Gregory Pittman and Christoph Schäfer are Scribus developers and co-authored File formats and application compatibility DMG disk image should open doors to many more users. The DTP world has a significantly higher percentage of Mac users than the overall desktop market, so the availability of an easy-to-install.
Scribus developer Peter Linnell described the upgrade to Qt4 as one of the most important advances in the new release, particularly because it made the native OS X package possible. The official release notes indicate that Qt 4.5.0 is the minimum supported version. The only major dependency change is Qt4, up from Qt3 in previous versions. Distribution-specific installation instructions are provided for Debian and Ubuntu, SUSE, Red Hat and Fedora, CentOS, and Mandriva.
Source code and binary packages are available from for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and OS/2 (yes, seriously). The new version incorporates substantial tool improvements, new import filters, native rendering for content created with external tools like LaTeX, the ability to create PDF presentations, and a native build for the Mac OS X platform. The popular open source Desktop Publishing (DTP) application Scribus has been bumped up to version 1.3.5, after two years in development.
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