Until recently, and despite his detoriating health, Peter continued to be involved in building and releasing new Scribus versions. Peter also wrote the first version of the Scribus online documentation, which resulted in his nickname “mrdocs” in IRC and elsewhere. It was Peter who spotted the potential of Franz Schmid’s initially humble Python program and, as a pre-press consultant at the time, contacted Franz to make him aware of the necessities of PostScript and PDF support, among other things. It is no understatement to say that without Peter Scribus wouldn’t be what it is today. The Scribus Team is deeply saddened to announce the loss of our friend and colleague Peter Linnell who in the end lost his long battle against cancer. If you think you need the changes, you have to check out the SVN repository and build 1.4.9svn from source. Please note that while some bug fixes still may be backported to the 1.4.x branch, we do not plan an official release of this version anymore. High Level Changes: UI Improvements for dark mode and some icon updates and window interactivity Improvements to file import (IDML, PDF, PNG, TIFF, SVG) Improvements to PDF export Improvements with respect to tables (undo/redo, styles) Improvements to the Story Editor Improvements to the build system Translation updates On mac OS, Scribus now includes a bundled Python 3 interpreter and is built for mac OS 10.15/Catalina or higher. We have also begun to prepare Scribus for using Qt6, which will make our work easier for future releases.
Like previous releases, work on version 1.5.8 focused mostly on bugfixes and code optimizations, the latter of which are expected to lead to reliability and speed improvements.
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.8.
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