Scribus Team Releases 1.3.1 - Unite

Friday, October 7th, 2005
by Matt Hartley

At one point, I compared the marvelous program known as Scribus to MS Publisher. Shortly after that, a ranking member of their team contacted me to inform me that was not really the idea. Regardless, I ask them once again - please consider creating a release for Windows. It can even be an older version, but if Tux Paint can do it, surely you guys can throw the Windows users a bone? Having said all of that, I am thrilled to relay the following updates about their software…

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.1 - Unit� - Open Source Page Layout. The 1.3.1 release is the second development version towards a new stable 1.4.

Building on the 1.3.0 version released in July, 1.3.1 brings new features never before available in any open source application.

* Scribus now natively supports spot color printing for true DeviceN color space support, natively rendering spot colors, with no maximum limit to the number of spot colors. Scribus uses enhanced spot and separation previews for previewing all separations when a new version of Ghostscript is available. The new spot color support can also convert spot colors into composite CMYK in both print and PDF export. DeviceN support works with both EPS and PDF export.
* This release also adds support for displaying colors and making color choices with an intelligent color wheel for color schemes and for individuals with color viewing impairments. This is a first, we believe, for any page layout application. [Read the rest]

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