[Scribus] Heading towards 1.2 - Scribus Status Update

[Peter Linnell]

Hi all,

I wanted those on the list to get an update on the road to 1.2, as well
as add some relevant tidbits to the world of Scribus. 

1. If you have not visited the http://www.scribus.net web site recently, we
are pleased to have Petr Vanek join the Scribus team. He is
concentrating on adding more cool features for the scripter. He has
created a nice font preview plug-in. You can download tarballs, Fedora
or SuSE 9.0 RPMS from http://www.scribus.net

2. There is an Irix build for Scribus available on
http://www.nekochan.net It would be good to know if anyone has tried
Scribus on Irix. Screen caps would be welcome.

3. Bug Tracker - The bug tracker has been a great success there have
been currently 324 bugs have been posted and over 225 are closed. Of the
remaining open bugs, 76 are feature requests. 18 of 19 crash bugs have
been closed. 

4. Seeking a Mandrake volunteer. If there is someone interested in
building Mandrake RPMS which can be hosted on www.scribus.net, please
contact me off-list. 

5. Thanks to Alex Moskalenko - there are now updated Scribus 1.1.5
Debian packages and nightly cvs builds for Debian.

6. The Scribus team has been invited by Linux User magazine to exhibit
again at the London Linux expo in April. Come meet us there. details:
http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk

7. Gimp2-pre4 was just released. GIMP 2.0 is close :) You can now edit
images within Scribus directly with the GIMP. Today's cvs has a new 
for selecting external tools, so you can choose between GIMP 1.2.x or GIMP 2.0pre.x
This also allows you to have your choice of Ghostscript versions. More news and a 
mini how to for having parallel installs of Ghostscript coming soon.

8. Inkscape On-Line meeting. Developers from the Scribus team and the Inkscape 
Team met on-line a few days ago. Many good things are already coming from the
meeting. Franz has added some fixes for making text import better from Inkscape
SVG files and the Inkscape team is working on support for Open Type fonts, which 
Scribus already has. 

With a note of thanks to help from Patrick Smith aka Bandi Pat aka Magic Page 
for his help,I have built gpg signed Fedora-1 and SuSE 9.0 RPMS for Inkscape 0.37.
You can find links on the http://inkscape.org home page. 

Cheers,

Peter