14 DAY TRIAL // On January 13, 2016, the development team of the Scribus open source, free and cross-platform desktop publishing software was happy to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.6 for all supported operating systems.
Prominent features of Scribus 1.4.6 include support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) blend modes, four new color palettes, which are available as both sRGB and CMYK editions, hyphenation improvements, enhancements to the PDF export functionality, as well as updates to the documentation and translations.
The new color palettes included in Scribus 1.4.6 are CIE HLC and CIE LAB, and they were designed for those who want to use a set of non-proprietary and open source color models on their projects. Of course, numerous bugs have been fixed as well in this new stable release of Scribus.
"Scribus 1.4.6 is almost exclusively a bugfixing and update release, including many corrections backported from the development candidate 1.5.x, whose next iteration 1.5.1 is supposed to be released soon after 1.4.6 with some exciting new features," reads the announcement published on the project's website.
Scribus 1.4.6 is available for download right now from the project's website as binary packages for the GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana, as well as OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation. A source package can also be downloaded from Softpedia.