Since I've now set up a community website for Scribus, with a news section, I'd like to add a first article with a review of the year 2018 .
A question to you: what do you recall about this year?
Here are my notes:
- the release of 1.5.4 with a few enhancements on colors handling and improvements for running Scribus from the command line (
https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-4-7-and-1-5-4-released/).
- a regain of interest for scripting with a few new contributors (dockattt, Iam_TJ, gibbz) who have submitted patches to fill wholes in the API and fixed misbehaving commands.
- the publication of cédric gémy's book about Scribus 1.5 (ok, it was december 2017... but i've discovered it in july 2018...),
- The start of Scribus Templates (
https://www.scribus-templates.net/2018/12/photobook.html) a site with sample Scribus documents
- "code" changes
- lot of small changes to make 1.5 more stable
- refactoring efforts to make the scribus code more readable (return early) and fast (const &)
- "moving" to C++ 11 (foreach, nullptr, some auto)
- fix "clazy" warnings and generally "fight" compilers warning (signed / unsigned, ...)
there are a few unfinished projects that might need some care and love:
- The IndigoDock UI proposal.
- A "friendly" API for Scribus plugins.
- The epub exporter.
- The table of contents.
- A new scripter engine.
What were your (scribus related) highlights?
ciao
a.l.e