

The Image Manager has been rewritten, and new non-destructive image effects have been added. Regarding bitmap images, the handling of Photoshop files has seen many major improvements, like support of multiple clipping paths or PSD layers.Vector import filters: Scribus 1.4.0 provides new import filters for the following file formats: Adobe Illustrator (both EPS and PDF-based), Macintosh Picture (PICT), Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), Kivio Stencils (SML), and DIA Shapes (SHAPE).More renderers can be added with a simple configuration file. The initial version of which was developed as a project for Google Summer of Code and this project has developed to allow import of externally produced documents, scientific publications and formulas.


LaTeX, Lilypond, POV-Ray) inside Scribus. A new frame type called "Render Frame" allows for rendering (and subsequently export) the output of every program that can create PostScript, PDF or PNG files via the command line (e.g.Major improvements to the handling of fills, like pattern fill, more gradient types, support for external color palette formats (AI, EPS, GPL, PostScript, SOC), and many new color palettes, including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp studio, as well as national/government standards.New features for vector objects, like Boolean path operations, vector effects or a line style editor.Usability improvements include better cursor placement and movement, faster layout on canvas and interaction between linked frames. Undo/Redo is finally available for almost all text-related actions, and a new script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation marks based on language settings. Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles, optical margins, or glyph extension.transform tools like in advanced drawing programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook and the Image Manager.

