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Scribus On Line Help

Program Author Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de

Version 0.9.4, Updated 15 December 2002

This is the second major revision to the documentation by Peter Linnell, netscribe@attbi.com completed for 0.8 - stable based on the original by the program author, Franz Schmid.

What's New in 0.9.4 ?

A much requested feature, MDI (mulitple document interface) is in Scribus. This give users the ability to have multiple Scribus Documents open, as well as copy paste/move objects between documents.

0.9.3 has added some ehancements to the PDF exporter, which reduce memory use,as well as more features with styles. A Russian hypenation dictionary has been added. The usual bug fixes....

**New**There is a new howto for using "hidden features" in Adobe Acrobat Reader with Scribus

A new Hyphenator Plug-in has been added, greatly ehancing the text layout within Scribus. Hyphenator Documentation describes how this works.

There is a new scripting plug-in, including an interactive console, which allows Scribus to use Python as a scripting language. The first reference manual is here and is included in the plug-in installation,along with sample scripts. You can download it from the Scribus download page.

For documentation on the new interactive PDF form features in 0.8+, look at the documentation under PDF Export - Save As PDF

If you are exporting PDF, you are encouraged to look at Optimizing Linux for Desktop Publishing for getting the best results with Scribus.


This User Manual describes Scribus 0.9.4 - developement, plus updates to the documentation since the last release.


1.Introduction

2. Installation

3. The Menus

4. Questions and Answers

5. Introduction to Scribus Color Management

6. Optimizing Your Desktop for Scribus

7. Useful Links for Linux DTP and Scribus

8. Change Log

9. Copyright


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