Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:37:00 +0200 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: Scribus 1.3.6 for OS/2 and eComStation released ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: christoph-schaeferDESPAM at DESPAMgmx.de The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of the development version Scribus 1.3.6 for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation. In addition to the information provided in the announcement for other platforms (see: http://www.scribus.net/?q=node/208), please note that the following requirements have to be met: * A copy of libc063.dll which can currently be downloaded from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip and gcc434.dll which can be downloaded from http://download.smedley.info/gcc434.zip. Both files need to copied to C:\OS2\DLL (OS/2) or C:\ECS\DLL (eComStation). * Ghostscript and Python 2.6 (available from http://os2ports.smedley.info) are required to support some functionality. For instance, Python scripts won't work if Python is missing. The print preview and EPS import will not work if Ghostscript isn't available. * It also requires the Qt4 GA dll's that can be downloaded as a WarpIN package from http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4 == Download You can download a ZIP archive containing an installer either from http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.3.6/scribus-1.3.6-os2-20100329.zip/download or http://download.smedley.info/scribus-1.3.6-os2-20100329.zip == Credits The Scribus Team is much obliged to Paul Smedley for taking pains over porting Scribus to the OS/2 and eComStation platforms. The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting (Norway) for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. We are also grateful to Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring. Moreover, the Scribus Team is pleased to name Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio (Germany), Serenity Systems (USA), Vectorportal (Russia) and Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters. Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this important release. == A Special Note to OS/2 and eComStation Users If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please consider donating via PayPal via the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports, or via the Mensys online store at http://www.mensys.net/os2ports You can also sponsor/support the "Qt4 for OS/2" project at http://www.mensys.com/NetlabsQT4 -- without the Netlabs Qt4 project, this port could not exist! == About Scribus Scribus is an award-winning, cross-platform Open-Source page layout application with a focus on high-quality and commercial-grade PDF and PostScript output. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation, many forms of UNIX and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 by now. 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). == Links * Scribus Website: http://www.scribus.net * Scribus Wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net * Scribus Developer Blog: http://rants.scribus.net * Bugtracker: http://bugs.scribus.net * Scribus General Mailing List: http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus * Scribus Development Mailing List: http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinf/scribus-dev -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice.org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice.org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end ]