Scribus Command Line Reference
Just like any other program, Scribus can be launched from the command line. Below you find the command line options for Linux/UNIX (including Mac OS X). On other operating systems the parameters may have to be used differently.
-l, --lang xx
Overrides the system locale and runs Scribus in language xx
. The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes that are used in the LANG
and LC_ALL
environment variables. For example, English can be selected with ‘en’ (generic English), ‘en_GB’ (British English), ‘en_US’ (American english), etc. Similarly, reformed German can be selected with ‘de’ or ‘de_DE’, traditional German with ‘de_1901’, and Swiss German with ‘de_CH’.
-la, --langs-available
Prints a list of languages for which user interface translations are available. To use that language run Scribus as scribus -l xx
where xx
is the short language code.
-v, --version
Prints the Scribus version number and exits.
-f, --file
Opens the specified file. It’s possible to simply pass the file name as an unqualified argument instead of using this, though if the name begins with a dash (-
) you will need to use --
, e.g., scribus -- -myfile.sla
.
-h, --help
Prints a brief usage summary.
-fi, --font-info
Shows the font file listing as Scribus starts. This can be used for diagnosing missing glyphs within fonts or possibly broken font files.
-pi, --profile-info
Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This can be used for diagnosing missing or broken color profiles.
-ns, --no-splash
Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-up.
-nns, --never-splash
Stops the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes an empty file called .neversplash in ~/.scribus
.
-sb, --swap-buttons
Uses right to left dialog button ordering (e.g. Cancel/No/Yes instead of Yes/No/Cancel)
-u, --upgradecheck
Downloads a file from our scribus server indicating the latest available versions.