| Desktop Publishing software released for Linux |
Jul. 16, 2003
The Scribus team has announced the release of Scribus 1.0, a layout program for GNU/Linux that is similar to commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker or QuarkXPress.
Scribus supports for professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, easy PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of color separations, according to the project's website.
Major features announced in this release include:- A modern user friendly interface developed with Qt. Scribus can run on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and soon Mac OSX. An experimental version running on KDE-Cygwin and Windows 2000 is in testing.
- Unicode support including support for right to left scripts.
- Export CMYK separations and "press-ready" PDF including PDF 1.4 features such as transparency.
- The only DTP application to create fully ISO compliant PDF/X-3 files.
- A powerful PDF export engine capable of creating fully interactive PDF forms, presentation effects and encrypted PDF.
- ICC color management via the littlecms color management engine.
- Powerful cross-platform Python Scripting language extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.
- Uses XML as a native file format. The Scribus XML format has been fully documented.
Download the software here.
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