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Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing
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Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Scribus's focus is on high-quality and commercial-grade PDF and PostScript output. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2, many forms of UNIX and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 by now.

Scribus is powerful software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds. It also comes with a lot of support options to help you achieve the best result. There is an enthusiastic and friendly community around Scribus that assists beginner and pro alike through our mailing list, IRC channel, wiki, contracted support, and the bugtracker.

Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK colour, spot colours, separations, ICC colour management, printing marks and versatile PDF creation, including PDF/X.

Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, supported by a large and constantly growing number of enthusiastic contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to improve "one of the most powerful and useful open-source projects out there" (TechRepublic).

The Scribus Tea announces the release of Scribus 1.3.6. This version is another major step on the way to the next stable release 1.4.

Compared to the work on Scribus 1.3.5, the development of Scribus 1.3.6 was focused on stabilising the code base, and especially on weeding out issues that came from the porting of the code from Qt3 to Qt4.

Almost 150 bugs have been fixed since the release of 1.3.5. In addition, Scribus 1.3.6 provides some minor enhancements:
• New Scripter functions
• Usability improvements
• Translation updates
• More colour palettes
• Updates to the documentation
• Build instructions for OpenSolaris

The Scribus Team considers this version to be quite stable and ready for many real-world use cases. However, since there are still some annoyances that prevent us from releasing version 1.4, more cautious users may want to prefer to stick with the officially stable version 1.3.3.14.

The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in a new experimental branch. Once tested and confirmed as working flawlessly, they will be backported and become part of the 1.4 milestone.

An important reminder:
• If you are working with 1.3.3.x and decide to implement some design features available in 1.3.6, you should only work with a copy of your file, since once it is saved in 1.3.6 format, you will not be able to open it again with 1.3.3.x.

Similarly, if you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team members use the same Scribus version -- this will avoid many headaches and extra work.
Primary Download Location

Windows and Mac OSX installers, as well as the source code are available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel

Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo:
http://debian.scribus.net

Fedora 11 and 12 RPMS:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs

OpenSUSE 11+ and SLED RPMs:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs

Mandriva 2010 RPM:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs

For more information, visit:
http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=3&page=1
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/

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Skim

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

Stop printing and start skimming.

Features:
<ul>
<li>Viewing PDFs</li>
<li>Adding and editing notes</li>
<li>Highlighting important text, including one-swipe highlight modes</li>
<li>Making "snapshots" for easy reference</li>
<li>Navigation using table of contents or thumbnails, with visual history</li>
<li>View all your notes and highlights</li>
<li>Convenient reading in full screen</li>
<li>Giving powerful presentations, with built-in transitions</li>
<li>Handy preview of internal links</li>
<li>Focus using a reading bar</li>
<li>Magnification tool</li>
<li>Smart cropping tools</li>
<li>Extensive AppleScript support</li>
<li>Bookmarks</li>
<li>Saving passwords in Keychain</li>
<li>Export notes as text</li>
<li>Automatic download of remote PDFs</li>
<li>Support for Apple Remote Control</li>
<li>Interaction with LaTeX, SyncTeX, and PDFSync</li>
<li>Integration with BibDesk and other third party applications</li>
<li>Spotlight support</li>
<li>Highly customizable</li>

</ul>
Current Version: 1.3.6

Version 1.3.6 New Features
• Optional Script menu, see the Wiki for details.

Bugs Fixed
<ul>
<li>Fix preference for automatic update checking.</li>
<li>Fix preference control for PDF-TeX synchronization preset.</li>
<li>Don't show PDF previews in presentation mode.</li>
<li>Fix an exception on saving.</li>
<li>Make secondary PDF views key on mouse down.</li>
<li>Fix hiding Skim in full screen mode.</li>
<li>Fix info window on Leopard.</li>
<li>Search TeX editor in application bundle first.</li>
</ul>

System Requirements:
• Mac OSX 10.5 or higher

Previous Versions Choose
Latest Tiger Version: 1.2.7
SkimNotes framework 1.2.1

For more information, visit:
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

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