Features
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License:
Free
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Downloads:
31,682
- Operating Systems:
Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
June 05, 2008
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Publisher's description of Scribus
From Scribus:Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Version 1.3.3.11 is a bug fixing release.
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Editor's review of Scribus
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- "Desktop publishing to go"
- Version reviewed: Scribus 1.3.3.11
Scribus offers up a freeware desktop publisher that lacks the polish of more popular, pay-for-use programs. What it lacks in pretty design, though, it more than makes up for with a full complement of useful features that compare very favorably against more expensive competition.
The detailed Web site includes a wealth of documentation, tutorials (some with video), and notes on everything from installation problems to drawing a grid to creating a text frame. We found it an invaluable resource when testing the application. There wasn't much jazz to the interface, but all the major beats were present: buttons were laid out logically and grouped according to function, without any unusual placement.
Scribus does have some oddities, mostly related to the scaling of imported images, but there's something else about it that's far more interesting: it painlessly brings in documents from the OpenOffice.org suite and it uses The GIMP for image editing. By taking advantage of these other freeware apps to boost its own productivity, Scribus enhances its appeal by forming a virtual freeware suite. We highly recommend this app to anyone who needs the power of expensive tools but can't afford them.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 12 votes
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Version: Scribus 1.3.3.11
"Feature Rich but Lacks Polish"
Pros: Lot of features. Importing from Open Office and MS Office is excellent. Lot of control on documents.
Cons: Strips out internal links from PDFs. Requires some time to get used to.
Summary: You will need some time to be comfortable with it.Many features like PDF Bookmarks, Internal/External Links will need help from web but once you spend a day or two with it, its Awesome!
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Version: Scribus 1.3.3.11
"Good for mar, pa, girl guides news letter printing."
Pros: Only good for mar, pa, girl guides type news letter printing. But I would rather stick with Word 6 for Windows'95(because it fast and powerful under XP).
Cons: Very, Very slow too may error and crashes on big stuff needs allot of beta testing needed.
Summary: Maybe designed for a computer with 4Gigs of memory. Best to use on XP with 1GIG memory, Vista will use a GIG of memory before you even get started, meaning more crashes or dropouts.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Scribus 1.3.3.11
"misunderstood what it was. wanted something else."
Pros: okay not what needed
Cons: see on line summary
Summary: see one line summary
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Scribus 1.3.3.11
"Only useful to UNIX programmers"
Pros: It installed without crashing my machine.
Cons: You'd better be a UNIX geek to understand how to use this because it won't work unless you also "invoke" something called ghostscript, which apparently can only be done using programming language on a command line. It is NOT Windows- friendly.
Summary: Simply porting a UNIX program to Windows does not mean it's Windows- or user-friendly. This is another example that shows why UNIX and LINUX have not been widely adopted--It's arcane and fails to offer an intuitive alternative to UNIX. I hope I ca... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Scribus 1.3.3.11
"Very usefull and comfortable"
Pros: The library
Cons: Dificul to move the text
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