Scribus 1.3.5.1 Released

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

After almost 2 years of intensive work, the Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.5. This release is a major development version on the road to milestone 1.4, which will be based on 1.3.5.
Following many testing cycles, the Scribus Team considers this version to be fairly stable and ready for many real-world use cases. For example, the cover of the Official Scribus Manual has been created with a release candidate of 1.3.5. However, since there are still some rough edges, more cautious users may want to prefer to stick with the officially stable series 1.3.3.x, which will see its final bugfix release soon.
The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in a new experimental branch. Once tested and confirmed as working flawlessly, they will be backported and become part of the 1.4 milestone.
In comparison to the latest developer release, Scribus 1.3.5 provides the following major changes and enhancements:

• 1.3.5 is based on Qt 4 (the minimum required to run 1.3.5 is Qt 4.5.0)
• A native OS X version, available as DMG file (Universal Binary)
• Improved menu integration with OS X
• Large parts of the canvas and text code have been rewritten
• A new frame type called Render Frames, which allows for rendering markup languages like LaTeX or POV-Ray inside Scribus
• Added import filters for the following vector formats: Adobe Illustrator, Xfig, WMF
• Added import filters for colour palettes, including allowing palette import from EPS/AI files
• Major improvements to the handling of solid colours, as well as new colour palettes
• Drag and drop improvements
• PDF 1.5 presentation effect support
• Optional embedding of PDF and EPS files
• Transform effects for items
• Path tools for shapes
• Added more additional default shapes, line patterns and arrowheads
• A new line editor for custom line styles
• A new Quick Start Guide in the Help Browser, as well as other major updates and enhancements to the online help
• Significant enhancements to existing features like the Scrapbook, the Image Manager or the Font Preview

Installation

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (jaunty or 9.04):

deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ jaunty main non-free
deb http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ jaunty main non-free

Or

Download Deb package for Jaunty at Getdeb.