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## Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

Since its humble beginning in the spring of 2001, Scribus has rapidly developed into one of the premier desktop applications for Linux. Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, supported by a large and constantly growing number of enthusiastic contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to develop and improve "one of the most powerful and useful open-source projects out there" (TechRepublic). Scribus brings powerful and versatile tools for desktop publishing and PDF creation, including separation previews, cross-platform Python scripting or advanced PDF 1.4 and 1.5 support. Scribus is now completely cross-platform and runs natively on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows.

Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK colors, spot color support, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was also the first DTP application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard for pre-press documents.

Scribus also has unexpected touches, such as useful vector drawing tools, support for many file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus. The Scribus file format is XML based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor – sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages, and more are coming in the future.

The Scribus team prides itself on excellent end user support with a lively IRC channel and friendly mailing list.

### Release History

- 15/04/2008 - Scribus 1.3.3.13 released
- 12/06/2008 - Scribus 1.3.3.12 released
- 12/01/2008 - Scribus 1.3.3.11 released
- 08/01/2008 - Scribus 1.3.3.10 released
- 28/05/2007 - Scribus 1.3.4 (devel) released
- 05/05/2007 - Scribus 1.3.3.9 released
- 23/02/2007 - Scribus 1.3.3.8 released
- 09/01/2007 - Scribus 1.3.3.7 released (added OS/2 Port)
- 04/12/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3.6 released
- 09/11/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3.5 released
- 03/10/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3.4 released
- 07/08/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3.3 released
- 14/07/2006 - Scribus 1.2.5 released
- 29/05/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3.2 (devel) released
- 10/04/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3.1 (devel) released
- 27/01/2006 - Scribus 1.3.3 (devel) released
- 22/01/2006 - Scribus 1.3.2 (devel) released (added Win32 port)
- 05/01/2006 - Scribus 1.2.4.1 released
- 03/10/2005 - Scribus 1.3.1 (devel) released
- 12/09/2005 - Scribus 1.2.3 released
- 14/07/2005 - Scribus 1.3.0 released (added Mac OSX port)
- 05/07/2005 - Scribus 1.2.2.1 released
- 8/01/2005 - Scribus 1.2.1 released
- 28/08/2004 - Scribus 1.2 released
- 06/06/2004 - Scribus 1.1.7 released
- 28/03/2004 - Scribus 1.1.6 released
- 14/02/2004 - Scribus 1.1.5 released
- 18/12/2003 - Scribus 1.1.4 released
- 28/11/2003 - Scribus 1.1.3 released
- 28/10/2003 - Scribus 1.1.2 released
- 03/10/2003 - Scribus 1.1.1 released
- 06/09/2003 - Scribus 1.1.0 released
- 07/08/2003 - Scribus 1.0.1 released
- 21/06/2003 - Scribus 1.0 released

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