<s>
Scribus	B-Application
(	O
)	O
is	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
desktop	O
publishing	O
(	O
DTP	O
)	O
software	O
available	O
for	O
most	O
desktop	O
operating	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
can	O
also	O
create	O
animated	O
and	O
interactive	B-General_Concept
PDF	B-Application
presentations	O
and	O
forms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Scribus	B-Application
1.4	O
series	O
are	O
the	O
current	O
stable	O
releases	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
1.5	O
series	O
where	O
developments	O
are	O
made	O
available	O
in	O
preparation	O
for	O
the	O
next	O
stable	O
release	O
series	O
,	O
version	O
1.6	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
is	O
written	O
in	O
Qt	B-Language
and	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
native	O
versions	O
available	O
for	O
Unix	B-Application
,	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
,	O
macOS	B-Application
,	O
Haiku	B-Language
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
,	O
OS/2	B-Application
(	O
including	O
ArcaOS	B-Device
and	O
eComStation	B-Device
)	O
operating	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
supports	O
most	O
major	O
bitmap	O
formats	O
,	O
including	O
TIFF	O
,	O
JPEG	O
,	O
and	O
PSD	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
long	O
list	O
of	O
supported	O
formats	O
includes	O
Encapsulated	B-Language
PostScript	I-Language
,	O
SVG	B-Application
,	O
Adobe	B-Language
Illustrator	I-Language
,	O
and	O
Xfig	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
a	O
built-in	O
scripting	B-Language
engine	I-Language
using	O
Python	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
High-level	O
printing	O
is	O
achieved	O
using	O
its	O
own	O
internal	O
level	O
3	O
PostScript	B-Language
driver	O
,	O
including	O
support	O
for	O
font	O
embedding	O
and	O
sub-setting	O
with	O
TrueType	O
,	O
Type	O
1	O
,	O
and	O
OpenType	O
fonts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
internal	O
driver	O
supports	O
full	O
Level	O
2	O
PostScript	B-Language
constructs	O
and	O
a	O
large	O
subset	O
of	O
Level	O
3	O
constructs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PDF	B-Application
support	O
includes	O
transparency	O
,	O
encryption	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
large	O
set	O
of	O
the	O
PDF	B-Application
1.5	O
specification	O
including	O
layers	O
(	O
OCG	O
)	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
PDF/X	O
-3	O
,	O
including	O
interactive	B-General_Concept
PDFs	B-Application
form	O
fields	O
,	O
annotations	O
,	O
and	O
bookmarks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
current	O
file	O
format	O
,	O
called	O
SLA	O
,	O
is	O
XML	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Old	O
versions	O
of	O
SLA	O
were	O
based	O
on	O
XML	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text	O
can	O
be	O
imported	O
from	O
OpenDocument	B-Application
(	O
ODT	B-Application
)	O
text	O
documents	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
from	O
LibreOffice	B-Application
Writer	O
)	O
,	O
OpenOffice.org	B-Operating_System
XML	I-Operating_System
(	O
OpenOffice.org	B-Application
Writer	I-Application
's	O
SXW	B-Operating_System
files	O
)	O
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Word	I-Application
's	O
DOC	B-Operating_System
,	O
PDB	B-Application
,	O
and	O
HTML	B-Language
formats	O
(	O
although	O
some	O
limitations	O
apply	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ODT	B-Application
files	I-Application
can	O
typically	O
be	O
imported	O
along	O
with	O
their	O
paragraph	O
styles	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
then	O
created	O
in	O
Scribus	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
HTML	B-Language
tags	O
which	O
modify	O
text	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
bold	O
and	O
italic	O
,	O
are	O
supported	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Word	O
and	O
PDB	B-Application
documents	O
are	O
only	O
imported	O
as	O
plain	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ScribusGenerator	O
is	O
a	O
mail	O
merge-like	O
extension	O
to	O
Scribus	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.1	O
added	O
PDF/X	O
-4	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
,	O
Scribus	B-Application
did	O
not	O
properly	O
support	O
complex	O
script	O
rendering	O
and	O
so	O
could	O
not	O
be	O
used	O
with	O
Unicode	O
text	O
for	O
languages	O
written	O
in	O
Arabic	O
,	O
Hebrew	O
,	O
Indic	O
,	O
and	O
Southeast	O
Asian	O
writing	O
systems	O
,	O
even	O
though	O
it	O
supported	O
Unicode	O
character	O
encoding	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2015	O
it	O
was	O
announced	O
that	O
the	O
ScribusCTL	O
project	O
had	O
started	O
to	O
improve	O
complex	O
layout	O
by	O
integrating	O
the	O
OpenType	O
text-shaping	O
engine	O
HarfBuzz	B-Language
into	O
the	O
official	O
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.1svn	O
branch	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2016	O
it	O
was	O
announced	O
that	O
the	O
text	O
layout	O
engine	O
had	O
been	O
rewritten	O
from	O
scratch	O
in	O
preparation	O
for	O
support	O
of	O
complex	O
scripts	O
coming	O
in	O
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.3	O
and	O
later	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2016	O
Scribus	B-Application
announced	O
they	O
got	O
support	O
for	O
OpenType	O
advanced	O
feature	O
in	O
1.5.3svn	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
complex	O
script	O
and	O
RTL	O
direction	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
1.4.7	O
did	O
not	O
have	O
OpenType	O
alternative	O
glyph	O
support	O
,	O
so	O
ligatures	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
were	O
not	O
inserted	O
automatically	O
;	O
this	O
became	O
available	O
from	O
v1.5.3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
cannot	O
read	O
or	O
write	O
the	O
native	O
file	O
formats	O
of	O
other	O
DTP	O
programs	O
such	O
as	O
QuarkXPress	B-Operating_System
or	O
InDesign	B-Operating_System
;	O
the	O
developers	O
consider	O
that	O
reverse	O
engineering	O
those	O
file	O
formats	O
would	O
be	O
prohibitively	O
complex	O
and	O
could	O
risk	O
legal	O
action	O
from	O
the	O
makers	O
of	O
those	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pantone	O
colors	O
can	O
be	O
obtained	O
and	O
incorporated	O
within	O
Scribus	B-Application
without	O
licensing	O
issues	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
is	O
shipped	O
with	O
more	O
than	O
100	O
color	O
palettes	O
,	O
most	O
donated	O
by	O
various	O
commercial	O
color	O
vendors	O
,	O
but	O
also	O
including	O
scientific	O
,	O
national	O
,	O
and	O
government	O
color	O
standards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Support	O
for	O
importing	O
Microsoft	O
Publisher	O
is	O
incorporated	O
into	O
version	O
1.5	O
,	O
and	O
QuarkXPress	B-Operating_System
Tag	O
files	O
,	O
InDesign	B-Operating_System
's	O
IDML	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
InCopy	O
's	O
ICML	O
formats	O
were	O
added	O
to	O
the	O
development	O
branch	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.3	O
onwards	O
contains	O
more	O
than	O
300	O
color	O
palettes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
free	O
Colour	O
Palette	O
is	O
also	O
available	O
in	O
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.4	O
+	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.6	O
supports	O
native	B-Application
pdf	I-Application
export	O
with	O
embedded	O
open	O
type	O
fonts	O
and	O
pdf	B-Application
1.6	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Python	B-Language
3	O
is	O
now	O
default	O
in	O
scripts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.7	O
improves	O
undo	O
and	O
redo	O
action	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Qt	B-Language
5.14	O
is	O
new	O
base	O
for	O
compilation	O
and	O
3rd	O
party	O
components	O
have	O
newer	O
versions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
no	O
new	O
Versions	O
in	O
pipe	O
with	O
Backports	O
for	O
the	O
1.4	O
tree	O
with	O
the	O
near	O
end	O
of	O
QT4	B-Language
support	O
in	O
most	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scribus	B-Application
1.5.8	O
supports	O
full	O
Python	B-Language
3	O
support	O
also	O
for	O
MacOS	B-Application
and	O
modern	O
UI	O
features	O
like	O
Dark	O
Mode	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Books	O
about	O
Scribus	B-Application
are	O
available	O
in	O
several	O
languages	O
,	O
including	O
an	O
official	O
manual	O
for	O
v1.3	O
,	O
published	O
through	O
FLES	O
Books	O
in	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Janayugom	O
,	O
a	O
Malayalam	O
daily	O
newspaper	O
in	O
Kerala	O
,	O
India	O
,	O
migrated	O
all	O
desktop	O
publishing	O
to	O
Scribus	B-Application
and	O
Gimp	B-Application
in	O
November	O
2019	O
,	O
saving	O
over	O
10	O
million	O
Indian	O
rupees	O
(	O
approximately	O
US$	O
130,000	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
