Supported Operating Systems |
Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Debian GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X 12 or higher, Windows 10 or higher (64 bit) |
UI Translations |
35 |
Import Filters |
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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 |
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1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, X-1a, X-3, X-4, 3D-PDF |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Supported Languages |
Python17 |
Scripting Console |
✓ |
Ready-to-Use Scripts via UI |
✓ |
Sample Scripts |
✓ |
Other Features |
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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 |
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Tooltips |
✓ |
Integrated Help/ Searchable/Bookmarks |
✓/✓/✓ |
Printed Manual |
✓19 |
Immediate Support |
E-Mail (Multi-lingual Mailing List), IRC |
Training |
On Demand |
Templates |
✓ |
Architecture |
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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.