Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout
to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows. Scribus supports professional
features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and
robust commercial grade PDF.
Welcome to Scribus, a page layout program for Linux, FreeBSD,
PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenIndiana, Debian GNU/Hurd,
Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, Haiku and Windows.
Since its humble beginning in the spring of 2001, Scribus has evolved
into one of the premier Open Source desktop applications. Encouraged by
professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, with support from a
large and 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).
Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional
publishing features, such as CMYK colors, spot colors, ICC color
management and versatile PDF creation.
Scribus has many unexpected touches, such as powerful vector drawing
tools, support for a huge number of 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.