Apparently Tom Lechner hid the RSS link on Laidout's website so well that very few people discovered he released in February a new version of this crazy app after 2.5 years of work :) Apparently Tom Lechner hid the RSS link on Laidout's website so well that very few people discovered he released in February a new version of this crazy app after 2.5 years of work :)

Changes:

• few vector-based formats can be imported now, the data thatLaidout cannot understand yet, won't be discarded, it will be preserved and saved back (you can try to reimpose a Scribus document, save it back and edit it in Scribus further);
• simple scripting API for running scripts from console (example);
• you can say add, delete, load and save scratch spaces and not only them, so you don't need to recreate them every time you start the application;
• more flexible 3D models importing, e.g. you can use an OFF file for unwrapping;
  
• gradients and gradient meshes display transparency now.

Sources | DEB i386 | DEB amd64

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