
Note that full support for some libraries may not be available on Mac OS X and Windows until the final 1.6.0 release.Ģ5 - The text layout engine has been completely rewritten and now supports about 500 languages and scripts, including right-to-left scripts like Arabic or Hebrew, and complex Asian scripts like Devanagari.Ģ6 - Support for advanced OpenType features like automatic ligatures and alternate glyphs.ģ6 - Automatic creation of text frame links.ģ7 - Vertical alignment of text. UniConvertor), Scribus will detect an installed version automatically. In most cases Scribus needs to be explicitly compiled against these libraries, so they become dependencies. Scribus 1.5.7 or higher requires at least Qt 5.14.ġ5 16 More dependencies: Scribus 1.5.x makes extensive use of many more external libraries than earlier versions, especially for import filters. Features that are already in 1.4.x will work as reliably and in many cases even better than in 1.4.x.ġ3 14 Qt 5: As of version 1.5.x, Scribus is being built using version 5 of the Qt toolkit.

That being said, the Scribus Team considers Scribus 1.5.7 to be stable enough to be used for daily work. Instead, all 1.5.x versions are development candidates of the upcoming stable Scribus 1.6.0! If you try to do some serious work with 1.5.x, you do so at your own peril. To be precise, you will not be able to open 1.5.x files with version 1.4.x or any earlier version.ħ 8 Also note that the 1.5.x series is not an officially stable version. See also the latest Fossies "Diffs" side-by-side code changes report for "README": 1.5.7_vs_1.5.8.Ī hint: This file contains one or more very long lines, so maybe it is better readable using the pure text view mode that shows the contents as wrapped lines within the browser window.Ģ 3 4 This is a cursory overview over the most important changes in Scribus compared to the latest stable version 1.4.x.ĥ 6 Please note that the file format has changed and is not backwardly compatible with any prior stable version (1.4.x or earlier).

As a special service "Fossies" has tried to format the requested text file into HTML format (style: standard) with prefixed line numbers.Īlternatively you can here view or download the uninterpreted source code file.
