On the importing side of things, better support for PNG, PDF, TIFF, SVG, and IDML files is now integrated.

To help off this list of major changes in Scribus 1.5.8, we now also have improved file importing and exporting. One of the victims of this is Scribus, but that is changing with the 1.5.8 release.Īlongside clearer UI elements, a small number of icons have also been updated, hopefully providing clearer visuals of what each button does. Unfortunately, these dark mode interfaces often haven’t had enough time to mature as much as their light mode counterparts. One trend over the past few years has been the dark mode craze, and this has extended to desktop Linux apps as well. Hence, with this release, users can expect greater stability and less frequent bugs and crashes. As a result, a number of under-the-hood code cleanups have been necessary, many of which have been completed in time for this release.

However, the path to these improvements isn’t particularly smooth, as the developers of Scribus have obviously found. As with many Linux apps, the future transition to Qt 6 should bring a huge number of improvements.

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