Feature enhancements to object handling (e.g. transform tools like in advanced drawing programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook and the Image Manager.
Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles, optical margins, or glyph extension. 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. Usability improvements include better cursor placement and movement, faster layout on canvas and interaction between linked frames.
针对矢量对象的新特性,例如布尔路径操作,矢量效果或线型编辑器。
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.
A new frame type called "Render Frame" allows for rendering (and subsequently exporting) the output of every program that can create PostScript, PDF or PNG files via the command line (e.g. LaTeX, Lilypond, POV-Ray) inside Scribus. The initial version 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. More renderers can be added with a simple configuration file.
矢量图导入滤镜:Scribus 1.4.0 为以下文件格式提供了新的导入滤镜:Adobe Illustrator (基于 EPS 和 PDF) ,Macintosh Picture(PICT),Windows Metafile(WMF),Xfig(FIG),Calamus Vector Graphics(CVG),Kivio Stencils(SML)以及 DIA Shapes(SHAPE)。
在位图方面:对 Photoshop 文件的操作有很多较大改进,比如支持多剪切路径或 PSD 图层。图像管理器经过重写,增加了新的无损图像效果。*此外,Scribus 1.4.0 现已支持图像中的 EXIF 数据,并重新启用了对 Windows 和 OS/2 位图(BMP)的导入功能。
Among the major enhancements to Scribus's pre-press features, printing marks and the display of ink coverage in the Print Preview are the most important. In addition, Scribus now enables conversion of spot colors to process colors during PDF and PostScript export with a single click.
PDF 导出功能也有了长足进步。Scribus 可将文件导出为 PDF 1.5,这之中包含了 PDF 图层。另一个特性是新增了一个选项,可在导出的 PDF 文件中嵌入 EPS 及 PDF 文件做为额外的栅格化方式。同时字体嵌入及替换方面也有改进。
在颜色管理方面,Scribus 1.4.0 同时支持 littleCMS 版本 1 和 2。同时也可以从主窗口处单击便可启用颜色管理。
此外,Scribus 团队还加入了在屏幕上模拟色盲的功能。
引入了大小数以百计的使用性改进。
The included scripts have been updated, including the addition of the "Autoquote" script in the Script menu to convert straight quotes in a text frame to correct quotation marks for many languages.
与前一版本相比,Scribus 1.4.0 提供了更多的模板。
帮助系统的内容已经过重写并更新。