## Scribus 1.5.0 Data Sheet

Supported Operating Systems | Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Debian GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, Windows 2000 or higher (32-bit), Windows Vista or higher (64-bit)
UI Translations | 35
Import Filters |
Text | Open Document Text (ODT), OpenOffice.org 1.x Writer (SXW), HTML, MS Word (DOC), 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, 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), 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 Objekte (SCE), StarView Metafile (SVM), Windows Metafile (WMF), WordPerfect Graphics (WPG), Xara Designer (XAR), Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (XAR), Xfig (FIG)
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), 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), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), GIMP Palette (GPL), OpenDocument Swatch (SOC), PostScript (PS), Scribus Palette (XML), 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 |
PDF | 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, X-1a, X-3, X-4, 3D-PDF
PostScript | Level 2, 3 (PostScript printer driver required)
XPS | ✓3
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/Seitenverwaltung |
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 |
Paragraph/Character Stiles | ✓/✓
Style Manager | ✓
Glyph Scaling | Manual/Automatic
Character/Word Tracking | ✓/✓
Glyphenstauchung | ✓
Glyph Extension | 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
Orphan/Widow Control | ✓/✓
Foot-/Endnotes | ✓/✓
Text Variables | ✓
Anchored Text Frames | ✓
Cross References | ✓
Bullets/Numbered Lists | ✓/✓
Vertikal zentrierter 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 34, TrueType, OpenType
Font Preview | ✓
Control Characters | ✓
Integrated Text Editor (Story Editor) | ✓
Character Collections | ✓
Text on Path | ✓
Tables |
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 |
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 150 Color Palettes, including National/Government Standards, Resene® Colors, Crayola® Colors, GCMI Colors, dtp studio collection, GiveLife Color System®, Galaxy Gauge™, and NAA Colors5
Bitmap Features |
RGB/CMYK/Spot Colors | ✓/✓/✓
Support for Embedded Clipping Paths | ✓6
Support for Layers/Blend Modes | ✓/✓
Non-destructive Image Effects | ✓7
Image Manager/Automatic Image Search | ✓/✓
EXIF Support | ✓
Configurable Preview Resolution | ✓
Assignment of Color Profiles to Individual Image Frames | ✓
Launcher for External Image Editor | ✓8
Embedding of Pixel Data in native Scribus Documents | ✓
Configurable Image Cache for Documents with Very Large Image Files | ✓9/✓
Vector Graphics |
Opening/Import as Editable Vector Data | ✓/✓10
Import as Image | ✓11
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 Editor12 | ✓/✓
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 | ✓13
Object Handling |
File Preview in File Selectors | ✓14
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 | ✓
Symbols15 | ✓
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 |
RGB/CMYK/Spot Colors | ✓/✓/✓
Color Management | ✓16
Printer Emulation on Screen | ✓
Out-of-Gamut Warning | ✓
Emulation of Color Blindness | ✓
Knockout/Overprinting | ✓/✓
Color Separations | ✓17
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 |
Supported Languages | Python
Scripting Console | ✓
Ready-to-Use Scripts via UI | ✓
Sample Scripts | ✓
Other Features |
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 |
Tooltips | ✓
Integrated Help/ Searchable/Bookmarks | ✓/✓/✓
Printed Manual | ✓19
Immediate Support | E-Mail (Multi-lingual Mailing List), IRC
Training | On Demand
Templates | ✓
Architecture |
Programming Language | C++ (some portions from third parties are written in C)
Underlying UI Toolkit | Qt 5.4 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 XPS, no OXPS.

4Only in imported AI, EPS and PostScript files.

5Scribus 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.

6Only in PSD, EPS, TIFF and JPEG files created by Photoshop, as well as ORA files.

7Only in RGB-Mode.

8Configurable.

9The size is configurable.

10Layers only remain intact if a file is being opened directly.

11Only AI, EPS, PDF and PostScript.

12Including line ends like arrows.

13Only AI, EPS, IDMS, ODG, ODP and Visio.

14For all supported file formats.

15As 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.

16Independent of the operating system.

17Only for PostScript export.

18Only when these have been imported into image frames.

19For version 1.3.3.x.

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