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Scribus as of 1.0 now has the Multiple Document Interface, where you can work on multiple documents at one time. With PDF’s it can also handle transperencies. You can create Python scripts for Scribus and you can import and export SVG’s. PDF/X-3 files and you can assign presentation effects and you can encrypt PDF’s. One feature that I like is that the Scribus file format is based on XML, meaning that if you have a document that got damaged you can recover some of that document using a text editor.

Graphics formats that can be utilized by Scribus are, jpeg, PNG and Xpixmap. Scribus has some professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, create PDFs easily, Encapsulated Postscript import/export. Scribus has a very clean interface and very easy to learn. Basically any machine that you have that has QT on it you can compile Scribus. There are efforts to port Scribus to Cygwin and Windows 2000 Professional. There are some reports that Scribus can be installed on Mac OS X through Fink, although I have not tested it or had a look yet. I have compiled Scribus for SuSE Linux 8.1 and 8.2, Yellowdog Linux 3.0 and Red Hat Linux 9. To install CUPS and QT on Red Hat install the KDE Desktop and KDE Developer packages. LittleCMS packages can be downloaded from here. SuSE Linux 8.x has all the necessary packages and they are installed by default, but Red Hat Linux and Debian Linux do not have TiffLib or Little CMS and they need to be downloaded and installed. It is good to have these but CUPS and LittleCMS are not required, but you will not be able to utilize all the features of Scribus without them.

The configure script looks for QT 3.0.3 at least, CUPS, Tifflib, FreeType2 and LittleCMS. Debs are an efficient way of installation. The source code is downloaded and easy to configure and make. Scribus does not have any prebuilt RPM’s or binary packages available for it. Scribus is meant to one day replace Adobe InDesign, Quark Express and if it continues on its current path it will meet its goal. It is developed byįranz Schmid and his team of many contributors. It is written in QT so it can run on a variety of Operating Systems. Scribus is a open source Desktop Publishing Lapp. 1.0 came with so many bug fixes and has become so refined I decided to do a review of it. I have used Scribus both personally and professionally since the early development times. On Jthe Scribus project had a milestone release.