Software update: Scribus 1.5.7

Version 1.5.7 of Scribus has been released. Scribus is an open source desktop publishing program. The program can be used to format and edit documents for printing, among other things, which can then be saved as a PDF or postscript document. For more information about Scribus, please refer to the wiki. To see the major changes and improvements made in this release are listed below.

General

• Improvements for undo and redo of grouped items
• Support for later versions of dependencies such as poppler and podofo
• Fixed: Issue with Qt menu heuristics causing translations not to work.
• As of version 1.5.7, the minimum Qt version to compile Scribus is 5.14.

PDF import

• As of version 1.5.7, Scribus can import text as editable text from PDF files. It should be noted that this new feature is still experimental.

PDF export

• Improved font embedding for OpenType fonts in PDF/X-4

User interface

• Unification and standardization of the user interface regarding margins, button and widget sizing, thanks to the tireless work of Gyuris Gellért.

render frames

• Render frames are now pre-configured for the use of XeLaTeX.

Technical/OS related updates

• macOS: Scribus 1.5.7 notarization has been fixed. It will run correctly without security warnings from Apple on Mojave through Big Sur. For those that use the Scripter functionality, our default DMG download of Scribus on macOS uses Python 2.x installed with the operating system. We have an experimental release that allows the use of Python3 if the user has XCode installed.
• macOS: Inclusion of libqxp/libzmf to bring parity across OSes for importing of QXP and ZMF files.

The complete changelog is available here. More details are available from the Scribus Commit Mailing List archive, beginning with revision 24254 in November 2020.