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Scribus
'Scribus' is a page layout program that can lay out newsletters and create corporate stationery, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality imagesetting equipment. You can do tasks like placing and rotating text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type, embed fonts in PDFs, and much more.
Scribus supports CMYK color, easy PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of color separationsand the EPS, JPEG, PNG, and XPM graphic formats. Printing is done via its own internal Postscript driver, which fully supports Level 2 Postscript constructs and a limited subset of Level 3. The driver that ships with Scribus can embed fonts for printing and you can use and output high resolution EPS files.
The file format is based on XML, a super set of HTML. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents, may be partially recovered with a simple text editor. When run from the KDE 2.x, Drag and Drop is enabled. The most recent version supports both True Type and Type1 Postscript fonts.
Last updated 31 Dec, 2007
About
Leadership
- Franz Schmidt - Maintainer
- Christian Töpp - Contributor
- Michel Briand - Contributor
- Alastair Robinson - Contributor
- Thomas Zastrow - Contributor
- Yves Ceccone - Contributor
- Peter Linnell - Contributor
Requirements
- PostScript Type 1 fonts (recommended) *or*True Type fonts (Use Requirement)
- Ghostscript Version 5.50 (version 7.05 is strongly recommended) (Use Requirement)
- Qt libraries (3.0.3 for Scribus 0.7 (Use Requirement)
- 2.2.2 or higher but not 3.0 for Scribus 0.6) (Use Requirement)
- LittleCMS library 1.0.8 (for color management) (Weak Prerequisite)
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Versions
1.3.3 devel
1.3.3 devel released 2005-11-03
- Released: 6 Jul, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
1.3.1
1.3.1 stable released 2005-07-06
- Released: 6 Jul, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/scribus-1.3....
- Licenses: GPLv2orlater
- Interfaces: X Window System
User Community and Support
German user manual available in HTML format from http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/scribus; English user tutorial available in HTML format from http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/index.html; German user tutorial available in HTML format from http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/indexde.html