'[CREATE] Scribus 1.5.1 released'

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Subject:    [CREATE] Scribus 1.5.1 released
From:       "Christoph_Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer () gmx ! de>
Date:       2016-02-13 23:01:55
Message-ID: trinity-88c2f2f2-090b-47ba-a495-74da04b7134a-1455404515365 () 3capp-gmx-bs69
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The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development version \
Scribus 1.5.1, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured version \
1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.1 can be already be regarded as robust. The Scribus \
Team encourages the wide-spread use and testing of version 1.5.1 in as many \
environments as possible. User feedback will help us to release a rock-solid version \
1.6.0.

Most Important Changes
======================

An instantly visible improvement is a new and modern icon set, which almost \
exclusively uses grayscale variants.

Scribus 1.5.1 also provides some exciting new features, the most important of which \
are:

* Support for the CIE L*a*b* and CIE HLC color models, which are also available in \
the color editor;

* Support for SwatchBooker's SBZ file format, which means, among others, that all \
color palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection \
(http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/OCSC_1_0.zip) can be used inside Scribus with their \
original colour model (CIE L*a*b*) intact. Moreover, Scribus 1.5.1 can now use Adobe \
Color Book files (ACO), as well as Adobe Swatch Exchange files (ASE).

* The import filter for XPress Tags is finally working as expected (some minor \
glitches notwithstanding) and has been tested with XTG files from XPress 3 to 2015;

* Two oft-requested text import filters have finally made their way into Scribus, \
namely RTF and DOCX;

* Scribus 1.5.1 enables applying a background color for selected text and also offers \
this option for character and paragraph styles;

* The ODT importer has been rewritten from scratch and now not only supports more ODT \
features, but is also much more tolerant with ODT files written by programs other \
than LibreOffice or OpenOffice.

* An experimental version of an import filter for FreeHand files has been added;

* PDF import has been massively improved;

* The font embedding code, as well as the related user interface, has been completely \
rewritten;

* The Resource Manager for online resources provides a new option to show the licence \
for the respective resource before downloading.

* As of version 1.5.1, Scribus includes two new color palettes, namely CIE LAB and \
CIE HLC. They are the first palettes in Scribus to use CIE L*a*b* color values, and \
they refer to affordable color fans that use an open and non-proprietary color model. \
We plan to use CIE L*a*b* for all of our palettes (where possible) in the future.

In addition, Scribus 1.5.1 includes many bugfixes, most of which are related to newly \
introduced features in 1.5.0. The Scribus Team also subjected version 1.5.1svn to a \
Coverity scan to detect potential security and stability issues. Many of these have \
already been addressed in this release.

An overview is available here: \
http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_set.php?type=1&temporary=y&project_id=1&fixed_in_version=1.5.1svn \
(reported bugs and feature requests) and here: \
http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit/ (actual changes, including \
unreported bugs).

Caveats
=======

* Please note that the online help system hasn't been completely updated yet, and it \
probably be won't be until the final release of Scribus 1.6.0.  
* Some newly introduced features since 1.5.0, like footnotes, are "program-stable", \
i.e., they won't crash Scribus 1.5.1, but not "feature-stable", which means they may \
sometimes not work as expected for the time being.

Primary Download Locations
==========================

* Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here: \
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.1/

* Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs

* OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: \
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs  
* Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond \
our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular \
basis.

Download Verification
=====================

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Source 						scribus-1.5.1.7z \
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OS X 10.9/Mavericks or higher, Intel x64 	scribus-1.5.1.dmg \
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Windows 32/64 Bit 				scribus-1.5.1-windows.exe \
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Windows 64 Bit 					scribus-1.5.1-windows-x64.exe \
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Linux AppImage				 	scribus-1.5.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage \
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Credits
=======

The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued \
hosting of all of the Scribus websites.

For this release, the Scribus Team takes a deep bow to Dezso Markon for his wonderful \
artwork.

We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and Linux New \
Media (Germany) for sponsoring.

The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio \
Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper \
Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services (USA) and freieFarbe \
(Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content since \
the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for the \
permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates.

Porting Scribus to OS/2 and eComStation is being supported by Mensys BV (The \
Netherlands) and Serenity Systems (USA).

Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, \
testers and contributors who helped us with this release. \
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