Major improvements to the handling of fills, like pattern fill, more gradient types, support for external color palette formats (AI, EPS, GPL, PostScript, SOC), and many new color palettes, including those from commercial vendors like Resene and dtp studio, as well as national/government standards.

New features for vector objects, like Boolean path operations, vector effects or a line style editor.Usability improvements include better cursor placement and movement, faster layout on canvas and interaction between linked frames. Undo/Redo is finally available for almost all text-related actions, and a new script enables replacing straight quotes with typographical quotation marks based on language settings.Many advanced options for text and typography, like character styles, optical margins, or glyph extension.transform tools like in advanced drawing programs), with improvements to existing features like the Scrapbook and the Image Manager. Feature enhancements to object handling (e.g.Scribus 1.4.0 has migrated from Qt3 to Qt4 application framework, as a result of which, it now runs equally reliable on all supported platforms.Some of the major changes in this version are:

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