
Support for CIE L*a*b* and CIE HLC color models: As of version 1.5.1 Scribus supports the CIE L*a*b* color space and its user-friendly variant HLC in almost all color-related dialogs. Beware, though, that the resulting SLA or even SLA.GZ files can be huge. Embedded images: Raster images can now be embedded in Scribus files. Image cache: To prevent Scribus from slowing down with many high resolution images being loaded into a document, an image cache for raster images has been added. One of the most requested features – drop shadows – has been added and works in all export formats. New path tools: Flattening and smoothing of paths. Graphics files can be dragged into a Scribus document from the Picture Browser. Basic table and cell styles have also been implemented.Ī new feature-rich plug-in called “Picture Browser” enables asset management for graphics files by tagging them or creating graphics collections. Tables in Scribus work now more like those in other DTP and wordprocessing software. The tables tool has been completely rewritten. Inline Objects in text frames are finally fully editable. Auto-adjustment of text frames to text size. Text in a frame can now be aligned to the top, the center and the bottom.

This has been one of the most-requested features with respect to Scribus’s text features.

Automatic creation of text frame links. Note that full support for some libraries may not be available on Mac OS X and Windows until the final 1.6.0 release. UniConvertor), Scribus will detect an installed version automatically. In most cases Scribus needs to be explicitly compiled against these libraries, so they become dependencies.

More dependencies: Scribus 1.5.x makes extensive use of many more external libraries than earlier versions, especially for import filters. Qt 5: As of version 1.5.6, Scribus is being built using version 5.10 of the Qt toolkit. Features that are already in 1.4.x will work as reliably and in many cases even better than in 1.4.x. That being said, the Scribus Team considers Scribus 1.5.4 to be stable enough to be used for daily work. Instead, all 1.5.x versions are development candidates of the upcoming stable Scribus 1.6.0! If you try to do some serious work with 1.5.x, you do so at your own peril. To be precise, you will not be able to open 1.5.x files with version 1.4.x or any earlier version.Īlso note that the 1.5.x series is not an officially stable version. Please note that the file format has changed and is not backwardly compatible with any prior stable version (1.4.x or earlier). This is a cursory overview over the most important changes in Scribus compared to the latest stable version 1.4.x.
