The Scribus team unleashed the 1.3.0 version of scribus last week, with a few new features that make Scribus even more interesting. It’s been quite a while since I looked in on Scribus, so I decided the 1.3.0 release was a good time to catch up with the application.
Scribus is a desktop publishing program for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It’s been many years since I’ve used QuarkXPress, but Scribus reminds me a great deal of QuarkXPress, and (like QuarkXPress) takes a little while to get used to using. That’s not to say it’s a difficult application — but with all the features in Scribus, it will take a little while to master the application.
The Scribus team unleashed the 1.3.0 version of scribus last week, with a few new features that make Scribus even more interesting. It’s been quite a while since I looked in on Scribus, so I decided the 1.3.0 release was a good time to catch up with the application.
Scribus is a desktop publishing program for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It’s been many years since I’ve used QuarkXPress, but Scribus reminds me a great deal of QuarkXPress, and (like QuarkXPress) takes a little while to get used to using. That’s not to say it’s a difficult application — but with all the features in Scribus, it will take a little while to master the application.
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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Figure 1. Scribus 1.3.0
I tested Scribus on an AMD64 Ubuntu Hoary box. I didn’t have any problems compiling Scribus 1.3.0 after I installed a couple of development packages that were missing. The compile only took about 20 minutes, and then I was off and running. Scribus should compile without any major problems on any newer Linux distribution, and you can probably expect packages for 1.3.0 to start showing up pretty soon as well.
Support for Mac OS X and Windows is one of the first features that the Scribus team mention in the release about 1.3.0. Obviously, I was already happy just with Linux support, but for businesses and organizations that use Windows and/or Mac OS X this is a very good thing indeed.
The Undo system in Scribus has been re-vamped, and the user can run through the action history to step back and replay what they’ve done, which can be very useful for anyone working on complex layouts. For example, if you’ve done some work with an image object and then move on to text layout, and later decide you want to roll back some of the actions you performed with the image object — without having to undo everything you’ve done in the text layout — the undo feature will let you move back to the image object’s actions without touching the text layout. In some ways, it’s kind of like version control for…
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