December 2015

[aoloe]

Proposals for the December issue of the Scribus community newsletter.

Proposed topics:

• [ ] Tutorial: A case for using Crop Marks & how to do it (tbc)
• [ ] Interview with the House of Open Source, HOST-Oman (tbc)
• [ ] How to setup a developer environment on different platforms to develop Scribus (see https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-newsletter/issues/16#issuecomment-151833444)
• [ ] YT Tutorial: How to align images in a frame
• [ ] Tutorial: using the item's blend mode to make the text stickout from the background.
• [ ] Eventually release of 1.4.6
• [ ] 3 Testimonials
• [ ] Crowdfunding ?

[aoloe]

• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LeoSaumure/posts/eY9vBSmuV1d : using the item's blend mode to make the text stickout from the background.

[aoloe]

it's the christmas issue... do we want to do something special?

special events in the real world could help us write articles / look for contributions about specific topics...

[luzpaz]

Idea: How about adding a section on 'How to setup a developer environment on different platforms to develop Scribus' that will be lead in to after the HOST-Oman interview?! -added to top thread proposal

[luzpaz]

Add this in to Decemeber if 1.4.6 is released? bumped from Nov.

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Scribus 1.4.6 released

TODO: will only be published in November if 1.4.6 is already out before the release of the newsletter (ale)

The newest bug fixing release of the Scribus stable branch has been released. The most relevant changes are:

• Improvement in the translations.
• Apply Transifex (a web-based localization service) sourced translations.
• Text effects only retain on first line when you reopen a document.
• Improve the color management consistency between PostScript and PDF CMYK output.
• Better color management for print preview when GhostScript >= 9.00 is available.
• Retain "View rulers" setting across session.
• Fix drag and drop issue on main window on Windows.
• Retain the transparency of layers for object placed in template when exporting in PDF.
• Extend the maximum display DPI to 500 to allow for current 4k, 5k, and future screens.
• Apply patch to use CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR.
• Avoid the creation of an XObject for every group on every page when exporting to PDF.
• Fix small scaling error when importing SVGs with viewbow attribute.
• Correctly render the kerning between non-CJK and CJK letters.
• Refresh the content when deleting a linked text frame.
• Fix flipping horizontal/vertical not moving the items back if multiple are selected.

[luzpaz]

3 Testimonials:

[luzpaz]

http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13576   1.5.1svn    User Interface      Fix wrong tooltip for Margins & Bleeds link button
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13565   1.5.1svn    Shape Drawing       Rounded Corners value is lost changing Shape
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13573   1.5.1svn    User Interface      Add missing Horizontal Line in prefs_externaltoolsbase.ui
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13570   1.5.1svn    General     Some naming cleaning in prefs_documentsetupbase.ui
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13557   1.5.1svn    User Interface      Could you consider splitting-up PROPERTIES PANEL?
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13566   1.5.1svn    Translation     Italian update for 1.5.1.svn
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13568   1.5.1svn    Graphics / Image Frames     It takes two long to create a graphic frame
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13564   1.5.1svn    General     Dragging Outline items on canvas make those disappear till Outline Palette update
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13567   1.5.1svn    Internal        Translating german to english comments in scribusview source
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13559   1.5.0   User Interface      ARRANGE PAGES toolbox is to big in height - no way to reduce it's size
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13558   1.5.0   Typography      In Character / Paragraph styles SHORTCUTS are missing
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13547   1.5.1svn    PDF     Crash on PDF exporting
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13553   1.5.1svn    General     Minor typo in smpstylewidget.cpp
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13548   1.5.1svn    General     Some small changes to keep consistent Action Manager output
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13540   1.4.5   Import / Export     Export as pdf produces faulty pdf file
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13508   1.5.1   Canvas      impossible to resize the stroke line width of grouped items
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13490   1.5.1svn    Story Editor / Text Frames      after inserting a footnote before an existing footnote the format of the new footnote text is wrong
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13542   1.5.1svn    Story Editor / Text Frames      Alignment of 2nd line changes
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13538   1.4.5   PDF     PDF > Pre-Press > Printer Marks > Bleed marks turns bleed region white
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13533   1.5.1svn    Documentation       add a apply to current page option to document settings > page size
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13531   1.5.1svn    Story Editor / Text Frames      Story editor causes assertion fail by cutting a text containing Japanese (or wide-width?) characters
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13532   1.4.5   User Interface      Basepoint for drawn line
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13522   1.5.0   User Interface      Slow to draw frame while resizing
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13527   1.5.1svn    General     Deleting right text frame crashes Scribus
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13518   1.5.1svn    Story Editor / Text Frames      Auto Indent (paragraph effects) does not carry over to next text frame
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13515   1.5.1svn    Import / Export     Drop Shadow not exported to PDF / X-4
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13517   1.5.1   Translation     Polish translation update for Scribus 1.5.1
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13500   1.5.1svn    User Interface      wrong mouse pointer when linking text frame
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13505   1.5.1svn    Graphics / Image Frames     Enhancement:  PFILE Attribute for PAGEOBJECT be Configurable to Relative or Abosolute Path
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13503   1.5.1svn    General     Crash when opening file
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13492       Internal        Drop misleading file not found warnings
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13496       Internal        r20489 doesn't have a commit message
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13493   1.5.1svn    General     Minor typo in scribusapp.cpp