| Supported Operating Systems | Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Nexenta, Mac OS X 10.5 or later, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation 1 or later, Windows 2000 or later |
| UI Languages | 25 |
| Import Filters | |
| Text | Open Document Text (ODT), OpenOffice.org Writer 1 (SXW), HTML, MS Word (DOC), Comma Separated Values (CSV), Plain Text in various encodings. |
| Bitmap | Desktop Color Separations (DCS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), JPEG, Portable Networks Graphic (PNG), Photoshop Document (PSD), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Windows and OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), X PixMap (XPM) |
| Vector | Adobe Illustrator (AI), Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG), Dia Shapes (SHAPE), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Kivio Stencils (SML), OpenDocument Graphics (ODG), OpenOffice.org Draw (SXD), Macintosh PICT File (PICT), PostScript (PS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ), Scribus Objects (SCE), Windows Metafile (WMF), Xfig (FIG) |
| Color Palettes | Adobe Illustrator (AI), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), GIMP Palette (GPL), OpenDocument Swatch (SOC), PostScript (PS), Scribus Palette (XML) |
| Other | PDF (direct opening and import into image frames), Scribus Unicode Glyph Palette (UCP) |
| Export Filters: | |
| PDF: | 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, X-3 |
| PostScript: | Level 2, 3 |
| Vector: | Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ) |
| Bitmap: | BMP, BW, EPS, ICO, JP2, JPEG, PCX, PIC, PNG, PPM, RGB, RGBA, SGI, TGA, TIFF, XBM, XPM, XV |
| Text: | Plain Text |
| Native File Formats | SLA (XML-based Plain Text), SLA.GZ (Compressed SLA) |
| Layout/Page Management | |
| Preset Margin Layouts | ✓ |
| Master Pages | ✓ |
| Grids/Guides | ✓/✓ |
| Page Palette | ✓ |
| Layers | ✓ |
| Page Import | ✓ |
| Flexible Page Numbering | ✓ |
| Individual Page Layout/Dimensions | ✓/✓ |
| Table of Contents | ✓ |
| Bookmarks | ✓ |
| Text/Typography | |
| Paragraph/Character Styles | ✓/✓ |
| Style Manager | ✓ |
| Glyph Scaling | Manual/Automatic |
| Character/Word Tracking | ✓/✓ |
| Glyph Extension | ✓ |
| Optical Margins | 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 |
| Hyphenation Control | Language-based, Consecutive Hyphenations, Smallest Word, Exception List, Ignore List |
| Spellcheck | ✓1 |
| Linebreak Control for Abbreviations | ✓ |
| Inline Objects | ✓ |
| Supported Font Formats | Type 1 (Mac and PC), TrueType, OpenType |
| Font Management | ✓ |
| Font Previewer | ✓ |
| Control Characters | ✓ |
| Integrated Text Editor (Story Editor) | ✓ |
| Glyph Collections | ✓ |
| Tables | ✓ |
| Text along Path | ✓ |
| Bitmap Images | |
| RGB/CMYK/Spot Color | ✓/✓/✓ |
| Support for Embedded Clipping Paths | ✓ |
| Support for Layers/Blend Modes | ✓/✓ |
| Non-destructive Image Effects | ✓ |
| Image Manager | ✓ |
| EXIF Support | ✓ |
| Configurable Preview Resolution | ✓ |
| Assignment of Color Profiles to Individual Image Frames | ✓ |
| Launcher for External Image Editor | ✓ |
| Vector Graphics | |
| Import as Vector | ✓ |
| Import as Image | ✓2 |
| Color Import | ✓ |
| Drawing Tools | Straight Lines, Bézier Curves, Freehand Lines, Shape Library |
| Line Styles/Line Style Editor | ✓/✓ |
| Path Tools | Lens Effects, Mesh Distortion, Path Along Path, Connect Paths, Cut Polygon, Boolean Path Operations, Path from Stroke, Subdivide Path |
| Text Import | ✓3 |
| Object Handling | |
| Duplicate/Multiple Duplicate/Transform | ✓/✓/✓ |
| Editable Frame Shapes | ✓ |
| Property-based Multiple Select | ✓ |
| Undo/Redo | ✓ |
| Action Manager | ✓ |
| Object Browser | ✓ |
| Align/Distribute/Mirror/Rotate | ✓/✓/✓/✓ |
| Scratch Space around Pages | ✓ |
| Configurable Rulers | ✓ |
| Scrapbook for Reuseable Objects | ✓ |
| Measuring Tool | ✓ |
| Fill | Solid Colors, Gradients (Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal, Cross, Radial), Patterns (Bitmap and Vector) |
| Color Palette Management | ✓ |
| Solid/Spot Color Palettes | More than 150 color palettes, including Open Source Palettes, National/Government Standards, Resene® Colors, Crayola® Colors, GCMI Colors, dtp studio collection |
| Frame Type Conversion | ✓ |
| Transparency/Blend Modes | ✓/✓ |
| Grouping/Locking/Combining of Objects | ✓/✓/✓ |
| Support for Traditional Measuring Units | Cicero, Pica |
| Pre-Press/Printing | |
| RGB/CMYK/Spot Colors | ✓/✓/✓ |
| Color Management | ✓ |
| Printer Emulation on Screen | ✓ |
| Out-of-Gamut Warning | ✓ |
| Emulation of Color Blindness | ✓ |
| Knockout/Overprinting | ✓/✓ |
| Color Separations | ✓ |
| Printing Marks | ✓ |
| Print/Separation Preview | ✓/✓ |
| Display of Ink Coverage | ✓ |
| Under Color Removal | ✓ |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ✓ |
| PDF/EPS Embedding in PDF Files | ✓ |
| Color Wheel to Create Color Harmonies | ✓ |
| Barcode Generator | ✓ |
| Dublin Core Metadata Support | ✓ |
| Documentation/Support | |
| Tooltips | ✓ |
| Integrated Help/ Searchable/Bookmarks |
✓/✓/✓ |
| Printed Manual | ✓4 |
| Templates | ✓ |
| Architecture | |
| Programming Language | C++ (some portions from third parties are written in C) |
| Underlying UI Toolkit | Qt 4.6 or later |
| Dependencies | See the list of requirements |
| Plug-in Interface | ✓ |
1 Not available on OS/2, eComStation and Windows.
2 EPS and PostScript only.
3 AI and EPS only.
4 For the previous version. An update is being worked on.
License: GPL 2 with exceptions