[Technical] Free desktop publishing app now on Windows

[Con Zymaris]

Scribus is a top-notch DTP app which has been on Linux and Mac for some 
time. It is now also available for Windows:

 http://windows.scribus.net/

This is what Scribus looks like:

 http://scribus.sourceforge.net/gallery/

According to the release notes:

Within this release period:

We welcomed another member to the team, Jean Ghali, who performed the 
Windows migration and developed the printing system for Windows.

We resolved over 290 requests and bugs.

Made significant progress in cleaning and restructuring the codebase which 
has lead to speed improvements, clearer code and opened the way forward 
for future 1.3.x development.

Preparation for the new modular file load and save system.
EXIF support.

Enhancements to TIFF and PSD file format support.

Image Effects - Tinting, Sharpening and more can be applied directly 
within Scribus.

Better cursor placement in text frames.

Section based page numbering.

Enhancements to the colour wheel and shortwords plugins.

Enhancements to guide management.

PDF export with viewer export options.

Updates for both Windows and Mac OS X compatibility.

Significant updates to documentation, including the beginning of 1.3.x 
documentation.

Translation updates.

Scribus is an open source page layout program with the aim of producing 
conformant commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript, along with 
extensive support for graphical PDF form and PDF presentations.

While the goals of the program are ease of use and simple to understand 
tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing features such as 
CMYK colors, easy PDF creation and Encapsulated Postscript import/export. 
Other professional features include full ICC colour management, spot 
colours and creation of colour separations.

Scribus is commercially supported and is available for GNU/Linux and other 
Unixes, along with MacOSX and Windows. Scribus is used around the world 
for newspaper production, book publishing and a wide variety of page 
layout tasks.

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Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)

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