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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of the development version Scribus 1.3.8 for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation.

In addition to the information provided in the announcement for other platforms, please note that the following requirements have to be met:

* A copy of libc063.dll, which can currently be downloaded from

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip and gcc434.dll, which can be downloaded from download.smedley.info/gcc434.zip. Both files need to copied to C:\\OS2\\DLL (OS/2) or C:\\ECS\\DLL (eComStation).

* Ghostscript and Python 2.6 (available from os2ports.smedley.info) are required to support some

functionality. For instance, Python scripts won\'t work if Python is

missing. The print preview and EPS import will not work if Ghostscript isn\'t available.

* It also requires the Qt4 GA dll\'s that can be downloaded as a WarpIn package from svn.netlabs.org/qt4

DOWNLOAD

You can download a ZIP archive containing an installer either from

Sourceforge

(http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.3.6/scribus-1.3.6-os2-20100329.zip/download)

or

Paul Smedley\'s Unix Ports for OS/2 site

(http://smedley.info/scribus-1.3.8-os2-20100906.zip)

CREDITS

The Scribus Team is much obliged to Paul Smedley for taking pains over porting Scribus to the OS/2 and eComStation platforms.

The Scribus Team also wants to thank Serenity Systems for supporting development and testing of the OS/2 and eComStation port.

A SPECIAL NOTE FOR OS/2 and eComStation USERS

If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please consider donating via PayPal via the link at

smedley.info/os2ports, or via the Mensys online store at

www.mensys.net/os2ports.

You can also sponsor/support the Qt4 for OS/2 project – without the Netlabs Qt4 project, this port could not exist!