The CMYK color palette created by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) for newspaper advertisements has been integrated into Scribus.Page borders can now act as guides (and thus be used for snapping of items).The handling of transparencies in Photoshop-generated TIFF files has been improved.Full support of the OpenICC Directory Proposal ().A script to align images in frames has been added.It now provides more options and adds thin spaces to French texts where appropriate. The Autoquote script has been rewritten and enhanced.The Barcode plug-in has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the underlying Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript (BWIPP).After activated “color management tool” in Preferences, you’ll see the option in the drop-down box of Compatibility at next launch.Īccording to the announcement, Scribus 1.4.4 will likely be the last release in the 1.4.x branch, and the Scribus Team will from now on solely focus on the development of the next major version 1.6.

The feature was backported from the development version 1.5 which is still in the making. The new release features exporting to PDF/X-1a, a standard popular with print-on-demand services. The desktop publishing (DTP) application Scribus 1.4.4 was released a few days ago on May 29.

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