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Scribus, DTP Program za Linux
http://www.scribus.net/
Scribus is a desktop page layout program in the tradition of Corel Ventura®, Quark Xpress®, PageMaker® and InDesign®
Since its launch in the spring of 2001, Scribus 1.+ offers Linux and Unix users a versatile and user friendly page layout application. Scribus 1.0 and its recent development versions are being used in a number of ways; from brochure design to newsletters and posters to technical documentation. Scribus has the type of the features one would expect in a sophisticated page layout application. You can do all the typical tasks like precision placing and rotating of text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type and much more. With the release of Scribus 1.0, Linux and Unix users now have one more high quality application for the desktop, making it the premier choice for DTP on Linux or BSD with other platforms to come.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color and a simple color management system to soft proof images destined for high quality color printing, Other features include flexible PDF creation options, PDF Import, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of 4 color separations. Scribus also supports via freetype Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Graphic formats which can be placed in Scribus include Encapsulated Post Script (eps), TIFF(Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (png) and XPixMap(xpm) Scribus now also handles any bit map file type supported by QT3.
Printing, PDF and SVG creation are via custom driver libraries and plug-ins, giving Scribus inventive features: the abilities to include presentation effects with PDF output, fully scriptable interactive PDF forms, SVG vector file output. The internal printer drivers fully support Level 2 and Level 3/PDF 1.4 postscript features including transparency and font embedding. The PDF driver from Scribus can embed fonts for postscript printing and you can use and output high resolution EPS files.
Other useful features include manual kerning of type, rotating object frames, bezier curves polygons, precision placement of objects, layering with RGB and CMYK custom colors. The Scribus document file format is XML, an open source standard file format, a super set of SGML. 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.
When run from KDE , Drag and Drop is enabled. Thus, for example you can drag and drop from the desktop to the canvas easily. There is easy to use drag and drop scrapbook, which can contain frequently used items including text blocks, pictures and custom shaped frames. Scribus will also run most any window manager including Gnome and Blackbox without difficulties.
Document Features:
* Supports Unicode text and fonts including right to left text for Arabic and Hebrew script via freetype2.
* Frames, visible and hidden with support for rounded edges and corners for text and objects, rotatable and scalable
* Page Templates - Page Palettes allow for easy page management
* Document-wide layers - editable and items can be moved
* Paragraph styles with numerous paragraph and text style options (alignment, fonts)
* Manual kerning of type and embedding fonts allowed in all documents including PDF's.
* Object linking, grouping, moving,locking, resizing and converting to different object types.
* Margins, guides and snap to grid which can be user defined, as well as hidden or visible
Professional Publishing Features
* CMYK color including ICC color managed previews of images and embedding ICC profiles in PDF documents for accurate screen to print color.
* Creation of CMYK and RGB color Postscript separations.
* Sophisticated PDF creation, including interactive PDF forms, support for nearly all PDF field types, and JavaScript actions
* The ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment including advanced Level 3/PDF 1.4 postscript devices
* Encapsulated PostScript® import with previews on the page canvas / EPS export.
* Full support for Level 2 PostScript output, a large subset of Level 3 and support for PDF 1.4 transparency.
* Full Compliance with PDF/X-3, an ISO standard for creating "press ready" PDF's - a first for any DTP application.
* Supports font embedding and sub-setting in both postscript and PDF export.
* Scribus can convert all supported fonts into Postscript outlines, which can be further edited in Scribus.
Ease of use features:
* Drag'n'drop with KDE 3, including a Drag'n'drop scrapbook for frequently used items such as text blocks, logo images, backgrounds etc.
* Online help browser with extensive and continually updated documentation in English with sample files included
* Easy to use tools and palettes for measurement, rotation and other object properties
* Full support for both True Type, Type 1 Postscript and Open Type fonts.
* User configurable keyboard shortcuts
* Ability to run in different languages without recompilation
* Sophisticated automatic hyphenation engine with several languages available
* Easy to use drawing tools for custom shapes including: lines, curves, ellipses, bezier curves, polygons, etc.
* Detailed and flexible user preferences for document and application defaults
File Formats:
* EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) PNG (Portable Network Graphics), TIFF (Tag Image File Format), and XPM (XpixMap)
* Scribus native file format is fully documented and XML based - a PDF of the file format is available on line.
* Scribus can also import and export well-formed SVG 1.0 (Scalable Vector Graphics) including text on a path, images and text. Scribus can export all features of a Scribus document as SVG. Images are converted to PNG when exporting SVG./li>
Architecture:
* Developed with GPL QT 3 for Linux and "Linux like" operating systems. Will soon run on Windows platforms with Cygwin / Xfree86 - compilation with ported X11 Qt libraries required. Has been ported to Fink, an open source repository of X11 applications on Max OSX.
* Plug-in support and API including a color management plug-in and special character inserter
* Powerful Python Scripting Plug-in for extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.
Target Usage:
* Layouts for newsletters, corporate stationery, posters, training manuals, technical documentation, business cards and other documents which need flexible layout and/or sophisticated image handling, as well as precise typography controls and image sizing not available in current word processors and
* Users needing the ability to output to professional quality image setting equipment, as well as re-purposing for internal printing, web distributed PDF's or presentations
* Users needing to create interactive PDF forms for presentations and cgi-form submission via PDF.
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