[Scribus] ANNOUNCE Release of Scribus 1.1.0

Subash Jeyan nsjeyan
Wed Sep 10 07:13:00 CEST 2003


On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:59:21 -0400, 
Peter Linnell <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com> wrote:


> Hi all,
> I would encourage everyone on the list to give the new version a try.
> Franz has done a brilliant job rewriting the rendering engine.  Having
> tested Franz's CVS code for the last week, I think this is the best
> single improvement to Scribus since he ported it to Qt from Python.
> 
> The on screen display is now in my opinion, now only matched by
> Indesign for pixel perfect accuracy. Moreover, the rendering speed is
> *much* faster. Text redraws are almost instantaneous on fast hardware.

hi,

simply great on-screen rendering. you are absolutely right about this
being the single most important improvement in a long time. one has
to see the difference to believe it. absolutely great job.

the anoncvs is still 1.0.1. but it was worth downloading 1.1.0.

thanks and regards, subash.



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