Scribus 1.4 Data Sheet


Supported Operating Systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Nexenta, Mac OS X 10.5 or later, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation 1 or later, Windows 2000 or later
UI Languages 25
Import Filters
Text Open Document Text (ODT), OpenOffice.org Writer 1 (SXW), HTML, MS Word (DOC), Comma Separated Values (CSV), Plain Text in various encodings.
Bitmap Desktop Color Separations (DCS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), JPEG, Portable Networks Graphic (PNG), Photoshop Document (PSD), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Windows and OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), X PixMap (XPM)
Vector Adobe Illustrator (AI), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), Dia Shapes (SHAPE), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Kivio Stencils (SML), OpenDocument Graphics (ODG), OpenOffice.org Draw (SXD), Macintosh PICT File (PICT), PostScript (PS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ), Scribus Objects (SCE), Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG)
Color Palettes Adobe Illustrator (AI), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), GIMP Palette (GPL), OpenDocument Swatch (SOC), PostScript (PS), Scribus Palette (XML)
Other PDF (direct opening and import into image frames), Scribus Unicode Glyph Palette (UCP)
Export Filters:
PDF: 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, X-3
PostScript: Level 2, 3
Vector: Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ)
Bitmap: BMP, BW, EPS, ICO, JP2, JPEG, PCX, PIC, PNG, PPM, RGB, RGBA, SGI, TGA, TIFF, XBM, XPM, XV
Text: Plain Text
Native File Formats SLA (XML-based Plain Text), SLA.GZ (Compressed SLA)
Layout/Page Management
Preset Margin Layouts
Master Pages
Grids/Guides ✓/✓
Page Palette
Layers
Page Import
Flexible Page Numbering
Individual Page Layout/Dimensions ✓/✓
Table of Contents
Bookmarks
Text/Typography
Paragraph/Character Styles ✓/✓
Style Manager
Glyph Scaling Manual/Automatic
Character/Word Tracking ✓/✓
Glyph Extension
Optical Margins Left, Right
Drop Caps
First Line Offset Maximum Ascent, Font Ascent, Line Spacing
Baseline Grid
Indent/Tabulators ✓/✓
Columns/Text Distance from Frame ✓/✓
Text Flow around Objects Automatic/Flexible
Hyphenation Control Language-based, Consecutive Hyphenations, Smallest Word, Exception List, Ignore List
Spellcheck 1
Linebreak Control for Abbreviations
Inline Objects
Supported Font Formats Type 1 (Mac and PC), TrueType, OpenType
Font Management
Font Previewer
Control Characters
Integrated Text Editor (Story Editor)
Glyph Collections
Tables
Text along Path
Bitmap Images
RGB/CMYK/Spot Color ✓/✓/✓
Support for Embedded Clipping Paths
Support for Layers/Blend Modes ✓/✓
Non-destructive Image Effects
Image Manager
EXIF Support
Configurable Preview Resolution
Assignment of Color Profiles to Individual Image Frames
Launcher for External Image Editor
Vector Graphics
Import as Vector
Import as Image 2
Color Import
Drawing Tools Straight Lines, Bézier Curves, Freehand Lines, Shape Library
Line Styles/Line Style Editor ✓/✓
Path Tools Lens Effects, Mesh Distortion, Path Along Path, Connect Paths, Cut Polygon, Boolean Path Operations, Path from Stroke, Subdivide Path
Text Import 3
Object Handling
Duplicate/Multiple Duplicate/Transform ✓/✓/✓
Editable Frame Shapes
Property-based Multiple Select
Undo/Redo
Action Manager
Object Browser
Align/Distribute/Mirror/Rotate ✓/✓/✓/✓
Scratch Space around Pages
Configurable Rulers
Scrapbook for Reuseable Objects
Measuring Tool
Fill Solid Colors, Gradients (Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal, Cross, Radial), Patterns (Bitmap and Vector)
Color Palette Management
Solid/Spot Color Palettes More than 150 color palettes, including Open Source Palettes, National/Government Standards, Resene® Colors, Crayola® Colors, GCMI Colors, dtp studio collection
Frame Type Conversion
Transparency/Blend Modes ✓/✓
Grouping/Locking/Combining of Objects ✓/✓/✓
Support for Traditional Measuring Units Cicero, Pica
Pre-Press/Printing
RGB/CMYK/Spot Colors ✓/✓/✓
Color Management
Printer Emulation on Screen
Out-of-Gamut Warning
Emulation of Color Blindness
Knockout/Overprinting ✓/✓
Color Separations
Printing Marks
Print/Separation Preview ✓/✓
Display of Ink Coverage
Under Color Removal
Document Bleed
Font Embedding Control
Preflight Verifier
Collect for Output
Scripting
Supported Languages Python
Scripting Console
Ready-to-Use Scripts via UI
Sample Scripts
Other Features
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
PDF/EPS Embedding in PDF Files
Color Wheel to Create Color Harmonies
Barcode Generator
Dublin Core Metadata Support
Documentation/Support
Tooltips
Integrated Help/
Searchable/Bookmarks
✓/✓/✓
Printed Manual 4
Templates
Architecture
Programming Language C++ (some portions from third parties are written in C)
Underlying UI Toolkit Qt 4.6 or later
Dependencies See the list of requirements
Plug-in Interface

1 Not available on OS/2, eComStation and Windows.

2 EPS and PostScript only.

3 AI and EPS only.

4 For the previous version. An update is being worked on.


License: GPL 2 with exceptions