Scribus is a professional desktop publishing platform designed to help you create high quality page layouts for Windows, Linux along with Mac systems. The application doesn't benefit from a glamorous interface design that can compete with its high-profile competition but makes it all up with an impressive range of features. With this tool you will be able to create anything from credit card layouts to book cover designs.
Scribus is well documented; it includes a rich set of tutorials, textual as well as video guides for creating simple as well as complex layouts. That, along with the built-in templates made it very easy to get started and understand how the application works. Among most tasks performed, working with text content was challenging until I discovered the highly capable editor that Scribus possesses.
In terms of graphics capabilities, the utility supports a generous range of image formats (vector graphics included).
Scribus will best serve the advanced user in most cases thanks to its flexibility but its intuitive design, controls and community support will definitely appeal to a novice user as well.
v1.4 [May 9, 2010]
Addition of the GiveLife Color System(R) swatch palettes (www.givelifecolorsystem.com), license in the swatches directory.
Updates to resolve small canvas interaction issues
Corrections to both bitmap and SVG image import issues
Addition of undo steps for path operations and page moving
Corrections to some master page behaviour
Fixes for text editing issues
Enhancements to scripter
Translation updates
The Italian version of the help documents has been updated significantly
Relocation of profiles and swatches to the share directory of Unix-like systems (linux, OS X, etc) to fit in with the file system recommendations
Notes for Google Keep allows users to work on Google Keep on a minimalist layout.
