## Scribus Version 1.3.5 Readme

#### What's New ?

The Scribus 1.3.5 is the fifth development release of the next generation for Scribus. This release is the first based on Qt4 and on first use some GUI elements have changed along with new features made possible with Qt.

#### The file format has changed and is NOT backwardly compatible. You have been warned. We have specifically disabled the ability to open 1.3.4+ files in the stable 1.3.3.x versions. Our plans for a new file format should be settled in the 1.3.6 -1.3.7 development period.

1. Windows users are strongly encouraged to install the latest Ghostscript before installing Scribus. This greatly simplifies setting up EPS importing. Ghostscript is a mature PostScript interpreter and is essential for EPS import and print preview in Scribus.
2. Because of the new enhanced menu/keyboard shortcuts code, 1.2.x keyboard short cuts are not migrated and will be recreated once on the first launch 1.3.x. There are vastly more keyboard shortcuts and they can be exported to use on other machines if customized.
3. On initial launch, 1.3.5 will offer to inherit preferences from any existing prior version, but store them separately, so you can run 1.3.3.x in parallel with 1.3.5.
4. You can install both versions in parallel and run them at the same time. The only caveat is to install them using different prefix/ directories e.g 1.3.3.x in /usr/local and 1.3.5 in /opt or $home/bin. You can use the `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=` argument to configure to set where Scribus should be installed.
5. Many of the new or revised GUI functions have extensive tool tips. To enable tool tips, make sure Help > Tooltips is checked.

#### New In Scribus 1.3.5

- Porting to Qt4 should provide vastly better performance under OSX. Scribus 1.3.5 will run on OSX 10.3.9+
- Much more extensive support for CMYK images, including clipping paths in TIFF and JPEG files, as well as extensive support for native Photoshop ® PSD files. 16 bit CMYK TIFF and PSD support will follow soon. Use of CMYK images is recommended with color management properly setup and active for best on screen appearance. CMYK-JPEG is also supported.
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- The other new major addtion is the new latex import capabilties. This is explained in detail in the online help.

For detailed changes please see the ChangeLog and the Roadmap on http://wiki.scribus.net/.

To use Scribus in your native language be sure that the environment variable LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG, Qt locale, OR the command line option of -l/--lang <lang> is set correctly. This also can be changed in the preferences and takes effect immediately.

The EPS/PS import features in 1.3.x uses advanced features of Ghostscript. We recommend ALL users update to the newest version of Ghostscript available for your distribution. There are detailed hints on docs.scribus.net for installing GS 8.x in parallel to the GS installed by your distribution.

Activating Color Management requires installation of CMYK and RGB ICC profiles. Grey scale icc profiles in images are not supported in this release. Scribus comes with 2 icc profiles only to ensure color management works immediately. These profiles are not sufficient to provide correctly working color management. Please see the included help files and http://docs.scribus.net for details.

#### Other notes/known issues at the time of release:

There is a bug in font outline handling for some fonts in the freetype libraries. It's being worked on upstream. Don't file a bug report. Instead change the font used if you need the outlines. This is not a Scribus bug. Some testing has shown that this bug is not present in freetype 2.1.10+, but we counsel caution trying to upgrade freetype2. Upgrading freetype2 on some distributions can be quite difficult.

#### Font Issues

There are extensive notes and detailed on documentation on fonts and trouble shooting of font issues in the help documentation and online at http://docs.scribus.net. Please read these carefully before filing bugs.

There are issues with the PostScript naming conventions with the Computer Modern Type 1 fonts, depending on distribution. In some cases, not all fonts from the same family are visible in Scribus. We are working on a more complete solution for the next release.

#### For Debian Users:

If Scribus does not start while complaining about the absence of PostScript fonts please install either xfonts-scalable or gsfonts-x11. They are in the "Recommends" and will be installed by all sensible apt front-ends.

#### For Suse 10.x/11.x Users:

- There are both 32 and 64 bit packages in OpenSuse Build server. Within the same repo are several programs which are useful with Scribus including GSview and other graphics utilities.
- Should you compile your own from source, to enable direct CUPS support which we recommend, make sure both cups-devel and openssl-devel are installed. Suse enables ssl support in CUPS. See the BUILDING file.

There is a separate file, PACKAGING for detailed hints and notes on building packages for Scribus.

More hints and other information are on the http://www.scribus.net and http://docs.scribus.net sites. Full compile, install and FAQs are available there.

There is a lively on-line community, both on IRC @ #scribus on irc.freenode.net and the mailing list. Mailing list info can be found at: http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus

For the Scribus Team,

Peter Linnell
in April 2009