Scribus
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Scribus
http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html
'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.
Documentation
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
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Licensing
| License | Verified by | Verified on | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPLv2orlater | Janet Casey | 2452450.525 June 2002 |
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
 Franz Schmidt | Maintainer |
|
Alastair Robinson | Contributor |
|
Christian Töpp | Contributor |
|
Michel Briand | Contributor |
|
Peter Linnell | Contributor |
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Thomas Zastrow | Contributor |
|
Yves Ceccone | Contributor |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Tracking,Developer,Support | mailto:Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to use | PostScript Type 1 fonts (recommended) *or*True Type fonts |
| Required to use | Ghostscript Version 5.50 (version 7.05 is strongly recommended) |
| Required to use | Qt libraries (3.0.3 for Scribus 0.7 |
| Required to use | 2.2.2 or higher but not 3.0 for Scribus 0.6) |
| Weak prerequisite | LittleCMS library 1.0.8 (for color management) |
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