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Scribus - Page layout program

'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.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html
Source tarballhttp://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/scribus-1.0.1.tar.gz
Version 1.0.1 (stable) released on 2003-08-08
Version 1.1.7 (devel) released on 2004-06-06
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
German user manual available in HTML format from http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/scribus; French user tutorial available in HTML format from http://www.yeccoe.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=8; 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
Support contacts

Help List<Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de>
Developer List<Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de>
Bug List<Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de>

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Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC++
Use requirementsPostScript 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)
Weak prerequisitesLittleCMS library 1.0.8 (for color management)
Related programsLaTeX

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-06-25
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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