Those of you that have never tried it, Scribus is an AMAZING publishing program for Linux. Considered to be the OSS answer to MS Publisher, my only gripe is that I cannot import all of my old .pub files into this software for conversion.

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of the next generation of Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing.

The aim for this release is to bring improvements and enhancements for both professionals and beginning users alike. 1.3.0 improves Scribus’ abilities in areas like performance, accessibility and workflow. With this release, we also commence support for Scribus running natively on Windows and Mac OS X.

While it is very stable and usable, there are a number of under the hood changes which will continue through the 1.3.x series. [Read the rest]