About

Scribus is a libre page layout program for almost every Operating System

Welcome to Scribus, a page layout program for Linux, Windows, mac OS, as well as FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenIndiana, Debian GNU/Hurd, OS/2 and variants, Haiku.

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.

Get in contact with the Team

They’re certainly not Take That!, or any other boy group, but they are a major part of the team that is responsible for making Scribus available to you. From left to right: Christoph Schäfer, Andreas Vox, Gregory Pittman, Craig Bradney, Jean Ghali. Photo: Gerrit Bruijnes

The Scribus Team are real people, and it’s easy to get in contact with them and an active online community. The  best way to contact the team is on IRC on the libera.chat network in the #scribus channel. For general questions, ideas, support and related conversation, visit our forums at forums.scribus.net. For reporting bugs, follow the bugs tracker menu link.

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