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Scribus for Mac

Scribus 1.4.6

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    Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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What's new in this version:

- [Translation] Italian translation update for 1.4.6.svn (FirasH).
- [Canvas] redrawing the canvas goes wrong when object moved with arrow keys forcing the canvas to scroll (jghali).
- [Canvas] Missing Layout Update/Display Refresh for Text boxes using certain 'align and distribute' buttons (jghali).
- [General] "Replace All" in Search/Replace dialog freezes Scribus in determined condition (jghali).
- [PDF] Invalid PDF when specifying a non-existing page to export (jghali).
- [General] Crash when opening file (jghali).
- [Language Tools] Fix for broken hyphenation language selection (jghali).
- [Story Editor / Text Frames] add keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F to Search/Replace in Story Editor (jghali).
- [General] Story Editor: Ctrl-F doesn't open Search window (jghali).
- [Import / Export] blend modes not imported from SVG file (jghali).
- [General] Error at startup prevents using script (psmedley).
- [Translation] Polish translation update for Scribus 1.4.6 (mhanski).
- [Translation] Updated Danish Translation (jghali).
- [Typography] Text effects only retained on first line when you reopen a document. (jghali).
- [Styles] Multiple Duplicate of text box loses style (jghali).
- [Undo/Redo] Rename action is wrongly recorded in Action History (FirasH).
- [General] Crash when reopening field properties dialog (jghali).
- [OS-Win32] Error message during the startup of scribus (jghali).
- [PDF] Encoding error in PDF with Symbol font (jghali).
- [User Interface] Crash when attempting to set keyboard shortcut to menu separator in keyboard shortcut prefs (cbradney).
- [PDF] Closing PDF "Field Properties" dialog after changing some values leads to crash (jghali).
- [Translation] Italian translation update for 1.4.6.svn (jghali).
- [PDF] Doesn't save a javascript script. (jghali).
- [PDF] [patch] valgrind error "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value" in ScImgDataLoader_PS (jghali).
- [User Interface] "View rulers" setting not retained across session (jghali).
- [General] Backport 0012193 (Style Manager styles sorting) to 1.4.6.svn (cbradney).
- [Translation] Minor Italian translation improvement for 1.5.1.svn + backport to 1.4.6.svn (FirasH).
- [General] "Defaults" button duplicates Printing Destination in Preferences (cbradney).
- [User Interface] Better tooltip for fill rules (jghali).
- [Translation] Italian translation updates for 1.4.6.svn and 1.5.1.svn (FirasH).
- [Translation] Italian translation update for 1.4.6.svn (FirasH).
- [PDF] Transparency of layers is lost for object placed in template when exporting in PDF (jghali).
- [User Interface] Display DPI maximum too small for hi res screens (cbradney).
- [Build System] Build system does not respect DATAROOTDIR (cbradney).
- [PDF] PDF export creates XObject for every group on every page (jghali).
- [General] Multiple duplicate Cannot enter more than 14 times manually, nor more than 99 times with the incrementor (cbradney).
- [Story Editor / Text Frames] [PATCH] Kerning between non-CJK and CJK letters does not appear until the text frame containing them is modified. (jghali).
- [Undo/Redo] "Arrange Pages" changes to pages arrangement might lead to wrong behavior of Undo/Redo (cbradney).
- [Story Editor / Text Frames] when deleting a linked text frame the content is not refreshed (jghali).
- [Undo/Redo] Undo/Redo does not restore the correct position using Flip Horizontal/Vertical (cbradney).
- [Usability] Incorrectly calculates the characters and words (jghali).
- [-] opening 'About' throws "please add the untranslated title "Haiku Port:" to About::trAuthorTitle()" (cbradney).