Scribus 1.5.8 Data Sheet


Supported Operating Systems

Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Debian GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X 12 or higher, Windows 7 or higher (32- or 64-bit)

UI Translations

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Import Filters


Text

Open Document Text (ODT), OpenOffice.org 1.x Writer (SXW), HTML, Markdown (MD), MS Word (DOC), MS Word XML (DOCX), Rich Text Format (RTF), Comma Separated Values (CSV), Palm Document (PDB), XPress Tags (XTG), Plain Text in various encodings

Bitmap

Desktop Color Separations (DCS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), GIMP File (XCF – per GraphicsMagick), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), JPEG, Krita (KRA), Open Raster File (ORA), Portable Networks Graphic (PNG), Photoshop Document (PSD), PostScript (PS), Progressive File Format (PGF), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Windows and OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), X PixMap (XPM) plus almost all formats supported by GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/formats.html) and the Qt toolkit (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qimage.html#reading-and-writing-image-files).

Vector

Adobe Illustrator (AI)1, Adobe InDesign XML Snippets (IDMS), Adobe Photoshop Custom Shapes (CSH), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM), CorelDraw (CDR, CDT, CMX), Dia Shapes (SHAPE), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), Kivio Stencils (SML), Macrmedia FreeHand (FH*), MS Visio (VSD, VDX, VSDX), Micrografx Draw (DRW), OpenDocument Graphics (ODG), OpenDocument Presentation (ODP), OpenOffice.org 1.x Draw (SXD), Macintosh PICT File (PICT), PostScript (PS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ), Scribus Objects (SCE), StarView Metafile (SVM), Windows Metafile (WMF), WordPerfect Graphics (WPG), Xara Designer (XAR), Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (XAR), Xfig (FIG), ZonerDraw (ZMF)

3D

Alle formats supported by OpenSceneGraph. (trac.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg//wiki/Support/UserGuides/Plugins)

DTP

Adobe InDesign XML (IDML, IDMS), Adobe PageMaker (PM6, P65, PMD), Apple iWorks Pages (PAGES), Microsoft Publisher (PUB), QuarkXPress (QXD), VIVA Designer XML (XML), Xara Page & Layout Designer (XAR)

Export Formats

Microsoft XPS (XPS), Open XML Paper (OXPS), Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS)

Color Palettes

Adobe Illustrator (AI), Adobe Color Swatch (ACO), AutoCAD Color Book (ACB), Color Exchange Format v. 3 (CXF), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), GIMP Palette (GPL), OpenDocument Swatch (SOC), PostScript (PS), Scribus Palette (XML), SwatchBooker Collection (SBZ), VIVA Color Palette (XML)

Patterns

GIMP Pattern (PAT)2

Gradients

GIMP Gradient (GGR), Scribus Gradient (SGR)

Miscellaneous

Scribus Image Collection (SIC), Scribus Unicode Character Palette (UCP)

Export Filters


PDF

1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, X-1a, X-3, X-4, 3D-PDF

PostScript

Level 2, 3 (PostScript printer driver required)

XPS

Vector

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ)

Bitmap

BMP, CUR, DDS, ICNS, ICO, JP2, JPEG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TIFF, WBMP, WEBP, XBM, XPM

Text

Plain Text

Native File Formats

SLA (XML-based, Plain Text), SLA.GZ (Compressed SLA)

Layout/Page Administration


Standard Layouts

Master Pages

Grids/Guides

/✓

Page Palette

Layers

Page Import

Flexible Page Numbering

Arabic, Roman, CJK, user-defined

Individual Page Layout/Dimensions

/✓

Tables of Contents

Bookmarks/PDF Bookmarks

/✓

Text/Typography


Paragraph/Character Styles

/✓

Style Manager

Glyph Scaling

Manual/Automatic

Character/Word Tracking

/✓

Glyph Extension

Optical Margins

Left, Right

Drop Caps

Advanced OpenType Features

Complex Script Support

Includes right-to-left scripts

First Line Offset

Maximum Ascent, Font Ascent, Line Spacing

Baseline Grid

Indent/Tabulators

/✓

Columns/Text Distance from Frame

/✓

Text Flow around Objects

Automatic/Flexible

Orphan/Widow Control

/✓

Foot-/Endnotes

/✓

Text Variables

Anchored Text Frames

Cross References

Bullets/Numbered Lists

/✓

Vertically Centered Text

Adjustment of Frames to Text Size

Vertical

Text Flow between Frames

Manual, Semi-Automatic, Automatic with Fixed Pages

Hyphenation Control

Language-based, Consecutive Hyphenations, Smallest Word, Exception List, Ignore List

Spellcheck

Linebreak Control for Abbreviations

Inline Items

Supported Font Formats

Type 1 (Mac and PC), Type 33, TrueType, OpenType

Font Preview

Control Characters

Integrated Text Editor (Story Editor)

Character Collections

Text on Path

Tables


Advanced Table Features

Adjustment of Frame to Table Size, Adjustment of Table to Frame Size, Even Distribution of Rows/Columns, Splitting/Merging of Cells

Table/Cell Styles

/✓

Asset Management


Graphics/Other Import Formats

Picture Browser Plug-in for the management of all supported file formats, including tagging, the creation of project-specific collections and drag’n’drop into the document

Resource Management

A single dialog for the management of colors, patterns and gradients

Font Management

Fill and Spot Color Palettes

More than 400 Color Palettes, including National/Government Standards, Resene® Colors, Crayola® Colors, Galaxy Gauge™, NAA Colors4, and the Open Colour Systems Collection (via the Resource Manager)

Bitmap Features


RGB/CMYK/LAB/Spot Colors

/✓/✓/✓

Support for Embedded Clipping Paths

5

Support for Layers/Blend Modes

/✓

Non-destructive Image Effects

6

Image Manager/Automatic Image Search

/✓

EXIF Support

Configurable Preview Resolution

Assignment of Color Profiles to Individual Image Frames

Launcher for External Image Editor

7

Embedding of Pixel Data in native Scribus Documents

Configurable Image Cache for Documents with Very Large Image Files

8/✓

Vector Graphics


Opening/Import as Editable Vector Data

/✓9

Import as Image

10

Color Import

Drawing Tools

Straight Lines, Bézier Curves, Freehand Lines, Spirals, Simple Shapes (Rectangles, Circles, Polygons, Arcs), Shape Library, Calligraphic Line, Contour Tool for Path Editing

Line Styles/Line Style Editor11

/✓

Path Tools

Lens Effects, Mesh Distortion, Path Along Path, Connect Paths, Cut Polygon, Boolean Path Operations, Path from Stroke, Subdivide Path, Smooth Path

Text Import

12

Object Handling


File Preview in File Selectors

13

Duplicate/Multiple Duplicate/Transform

/✓/✓

Editable Frame Shapes

Drop Shadows for all Kinds of Items

Item Selection across Layers

Property-based Multiple Select

Undo/Redo

Action Manager

Object Browser

Align/Distribute/Mirror/Rotate

/✓/✓/✓

Alignment of Items Relative to Grid/Guides/Other Items

/✓/✓

Scratch Space around Pages

Configurable Rulers

Scrapbook for Reuseable Objects

Inline Item Library

Symbols14

Measuring Tool

Fill

Solid Colors, Gradients (Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal, Cross, Radial, Conical, 4 Colors, Diamond, Mesh, Patch Mesh), Patterns (Bitmap and Vector), Hatchings

Frame Type Conversion

Transparency/Blend Modes for Items/Groups/Layers

/✓/✓

Grouping/Locking/Welding of Objects

/✓/✓

Support for Traditional Measuring Units

Cicero, Pica

Pre-Press/Printing


RGB/CMYK/LAB/Spot Colors/Spectral Colors

/✓/✓/✓/✓

Color Management

15

Printer Emulation on Screen

Out-of-Gamut Warning

Emulation of Color Blindness

Knockout/Overprinting

/✓

Color Separations

16

Printing Marks

Print/Separation Preview

/

Display of Ink Coverage

Under Color Removal

Advanced Settings for Export (PDF)

Frequency/Angle/Spot Function for every Color Channel

Document Bleed

Font Embedding Control

Preflight Verifier

Collect for Output

Scripting


Supported Languages

Python17

Scripting Console

Ready-to-Use Scripts via UI

Sample Scripts

Other Features


Tabbed View for Multiple Documents

Highly Configurable

Render Frames to Render Markup Languages Inside Scribus

Pre-configured for LaTeX, Lilypond, Gnuplot, GraphViz, POV-Ray

PDF Forms

PDF + JavaScript

PDF Presentations

PDF Encryption

AI/EPS/PDF/PostScript Embedding in PDF Files

18

Color Wheel to Create Color Harmonies

Barcode Generator

Dublin Core Metadata Support

Documentation/Support


Tooltips

Integrated Help/ Searchable/Bookmarks

/✓/✓

Printed Manual

19

Immediate Support

E-Mail (Multi-lingual Mailing List), IRC

Training

On Demand

Templates

Architecture


Programming Language

C++ (some portions from third parties are written in C)

Underlying UI Toolkit

Qt 5.5 or higher

Plug-in Interface

C++


1Including AI/PDF hybrid files. The version can be selected during import.

2In addition, every bitmap or vector file can be used as a pattern.

3Only in imported AI, EPS and PostScript files.

4Scribus is currently the only program that comprises the digital version of the fan deck recommended by the Newspaper Association of America. All other programs are still being shipped with the long-outdated palette of NAA’s predecessor ANPA – if at all.

5Only in PSD, EPS, TIFF and JPEG files created by Photoshop, as well as ORA files.

6Only in RGB-Mode.

7Configurable.

8The size is configurable.

9Layers only remain intact if a file is being opened directly.

10Only AI, EPS, PDF and PostScript.

11Including line ends like arrows.

12Only AI, EPS, IDMS, ODG, ODP and Visio.

13For all supported file formats.

14As in Adobe Illustrator, i.e., every object can be converted to a Symbol or “master item.” All copies or “child items” of this object will inherit every change made to the Symbol.

15Independent of the operating system.

16Only for PostScript export.

17Python 3 on Windows and Linux, Python 2 on macOS.

18Only when these have been imported into image frames.

19For version 1.3.3.x.