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| Scribus |
| Computer languages | C++ + |
|---|---|
| Documentation note | German user manual available in HTML forma … 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 2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/indexde.html |
| Full description | 'Scribus' is a page layout program that ca … '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. both True Type and Type1 Postscript fonts. |
| Graphics | page-layout + |
| Homepage URL | http://www.scribus.net/ + |
| Interface | x-window-system + |
| Is GNU | false + |
| Keywords | JPEG + , XML + , graphics + , font + , pdf + , PostScript + , XPM + , document + , scribus + , page layout + , newsletter + , poster + , Quark Xpress + , Adobe PageMaker + , Adobe InDesign + , True Type + , Type1 + , CMYK + , EPS + , PNG + |
| Last review by | Janet Casey + |
| Last review date | 31 December 2007 + |
| License | GPLv2orlater + |
| License verified by | Janet Casey + |
| License verified date | 25 June 2002 + |
| Name | Scribus + |
| Prerequisite description | PostScript Type 1 fonts (recommended) *or*True Type fonts + , Ghostscript Version 5.50 (version 7.05 is strongly recommended) + , Qt libraries (3.0.3 for Scribus 0.7 + , 2.2.2 or higher but not 3.0 for Scribus 0.6) + , LittleCMS library 1.0.8 (for color management) + |
| Prerequisite kind | Required to use + , Weak prerequisite + |
| Real name | Franz Schmidt + , Alastair Robinson + , Christian Töpp + , Michel Briand + , Peter Linnell + , Thomas Zastrow + , Yves Ceccone + |
| Related projects | Gpub + , LaTeX + |
| Resource URL | mailto:Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de + |
| Resource audience | Bug Tracking + , Developer + , Support + |
| Resource kind | E-mail + |
| Revisionid | 14,058 + |
| Revisiontimestamp | 19 March 2012 16:21:10 + |
| Revisionuser | Mattl + |
| Role | Maintainer + , Contributor + |
| Short description | Page layout program + |
| Submitted by | Database conversion + |
| Submitted date | 1 April 2011 + |
| User level | none + |
| Version download | http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download + |
| Version status | stable + |
| Works-with | graphics + |
| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. | 24 May 2012 23:17:46 + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Entry + |
| EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de + , blackfive@fakenhamweb.co.uk + , mr-ct@gmx.de + , michelbriand@free.fr + , netscribe@mediaone.net + , webmaster@thomas-zastrow.de + , yves@yeccoe.org + |
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