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This is Scribus Version 1.2.1
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The Scribus 1.2.x versions feature a complete rewrite of the rendering engine.
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All rendering is done via libart and freetype2. 
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This requires that libart_lgpl and freetype2 are installed.
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Scribus 1.2.1 also has a new OpenOffice.org Writer and Draw importer. This 
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requires libxml2, preferably version 2.6.x+. The OpenOffice.org Writer importer
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will import styles from the OpenOffice.org doc and will create similar styles
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within your Scribus document.
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Additionally Scribus uses now a different way to find fonts, sadly this gives
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some changes in the font names Scribus uses. To convert old documents follow
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the procedure below:
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1) Create a document with the old Version of Scribus containing all your Fonts.
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2) Open the new Scribus and go to the Font Substitution List.
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3) Clear out all current substitutions.
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4) Open the Document created in 1) and substitute all the fonts with the 
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   correct new fonts.
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When you now open old documents Scribus will convert all Font Names
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automatically.
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For Changes please see the ChangeLog.
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To use Scribus in your native language be sure that the environment variable 
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LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG, Qt locale, OR the command line option 
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of -l/--lang <lang> is set correctly.
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The new EPS/PS import feature in 1.2.x uses advanced features of Ghostscript.
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We recommend ALL users update to the newest version of Ghostscript available 
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for your distro. There are detailed hints on docs.scribus.net for installing
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GS 8.x in parallel to the GS installed by your distro.
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Activating Color Management *requires* installation of CMYK and RGB ICC 
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profiles. Please see the included help files and http://docs.scribus.net for 
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details.
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Other notes/known issues at the time of release:
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There is a bug in font outline handling for some fonts in the freetype
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libraries. It's being worked on upstream. Don't file a bug report. Instead
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change the font used if you need the outlines. This is not a Scribus bug. 
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Some testing has shown that this bug is not present in freetype 2.1.9, but 
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we counsel caution trying to upgrade freetype2. Upgrading freetype2 on some
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distros can be quite difficult.
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For Debian Users:
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If Scribus does not start while complaining about the absence of
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PostScript fonts please install either xfonts-scalable or gsfonts-x11.
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They are in the "Recommends" and will be installed by all sensible apt
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front-ends.
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For SuSE 9.x Users:
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- The littlecms libs 1.10, which shipped with 9.0 does not offer complete 
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  support for all the the latest CMS features in Scribus 1.2. There are updated
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  SuSE 9.x RPM's available on the Scribus.net site. We also recommend using the 
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  latest version of lcms. 
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- If you are using Qt 3.3.x, please ensure you are using the latest Qt 3.3.2-2+
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  rpms. The -2+ versions have an important fix for drag and drop in Scribus. 
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- To enable direct CUPS support which recommend, make sure both cups-devel and 
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  openssl-devel are installed. Suse enables ssl support in CUPS.
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For Fedora/RH using Qt 3.3.2-6+ has the same fixes.
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Many other hints and info are on the www.scribus.net and docs.scribus.net
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sites. Full compile, install and FAQ's are available there.
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There is a lively on-line community, both on IRC @ #scribus on irc.freenode.net
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and the mailing list. Mailing list info can be found at: 
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 http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
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For the Scribus Team,
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Franz Schmid
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Peter Linnell
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in January 2005