Scribus 1.4.3 Data Sheet


Supported Operating Systems

Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenIndiana, Debian GNU/Hurd, Haiku, Mac OS X 10.5 or later, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation 1 or later, Windows 2000 or later (32-bit), Windows Vista or later (64-bit)

UI Languages

25

Import Filters

DTP

InDesign XML (IDML), InDesign XML Snippets (IDMS), InCopy XML files (ICML), Microsoft Publisher (PUB), PDF, PostScript, Quark Xpress Tags (XTG)

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, PDF, Photoshop Document (PSD), Portable Networks Graphic (PNG), PostScript, Progressive Graphics Format (PGF), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Windows and OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), X PixMap (XPM); All Bitmap Formats Supported by GraphicsMagick (Optional)

Vector

Adobe Illustrator (AI), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM), 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), WordPerfect Graphics, Xara Designer (XAR), Xfig (FIG); All Vector Formats Supported by UniConvertor (optional)

3D

Collaborative Design Activity (COLLADA), LightWave (LWO), Alias Wavefront (OBJ), OpenFlight (FLT), Carbon Graphics GEO (GEO), 3D Studio MAX (3DS), AutoCAD (DXF), Inventor ASCII 2.0 (IV)/VRML 1.0 (WRL), AC3D (AC), OpenSceneGraph (OSG)

Color Palettes

Adobe Color Book (ACB), Adobe Color Swatch (ACO), Adobe Illustrator (AI), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), GIMP Palette (GPL), OpenDocument Swatch (SOC), PostScript (PS), Scribus Palette (XML)

Other

Scribus Unicode Glyph Palette (UCP)

Export Filters:

PDF:

1.3, 1.4, 1.5, X-1a 2001, X-3, X-4

PostScript:

Level 2, 3

Vector:

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PostScript (via PostScript printer driver or Ghostscript), 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/ToC Styles

✓/✓

Bookmarks

Rule-Based Deletion of Frame Content

Text/Typography

Paragraph/Character Styles/Style Shortcuts

✓/✓/✓

Style Manager

Nested Styles

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

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

Text along Path

Orphans and Widows control

Foot-/Endnotes

✓/✓

Text Variables

Anchored Text Frames

Cross References

Auto-Numbering/Bullets

✓/✓

Auto-Adjustment of Text Frames to Text Size

Grow-as-you-type adjustment of text frames

Document-wide Search and Replace/S&R with Regular Expressions

✓/✓

Text Optimizer

Removing Double Empty Spaces/Empty Lines, Typographic Spaces, Hyphens Based on Language Setting, Text Optimization during Import





Tables

Advanced Table Editing

Adjust Table to Frame/Frame to Table, Distribute Rows/Colums Evenly, Merge Cells, Split Cells

Table/Cell Styles

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

1

Color Import

Drawing Tools

Straight Lines, Bézier Curves, Arcs, Spirals, Freehand Lines, Calligraphic Pen, 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

2

Object Handling

Duplicate/Multiple Duplicate/Transform

✓/✓/✓

Editable Frame Shapes

Property-based Multiple Select

Undo/Redo

Action Manager

Object Browser

Graphics Resource Manager

Align/Distribute/Mirror/Rotate

✓/✓/✓/✓

Scratch Space around Pages

Configurable Rulers

Scrapbook for Reuseable Objects

Symbols (Cloned Objects)

Fill Management

Colors, Gradients, Patterns

Measuring Tool

Fill

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

Color Palette Management

Solid/Spot Color Palettes

More than 150 color palettes, including Open Source palettes, national/government/scientific standards, Resene® Colors, Crayola® Colors, GCMI Colors, dtp studio collection, GiveLife Color System®, Galaxy Gauge™ color palettes and color tools

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

Imposition

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, including QR codes

Dublin Core Metadata Support

Documentation/Support

Tooltips

Integrated Help/
Searchable/Bookmarks

✓/✓/✓

Printed Manual

3

Templates

Online Support

Wiki, IRC, Mailing List, personal e-mail

Phone Hotline

Architecture

Programming Language

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

Underlying UI Toolkit

Qt 4.6 or later

Plug-in Interface


1 EPS and PostScript only.

2 AI and EPS only.

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


License: GPL 2 with exceptions

Documentation License: Open Documentation License