![]() Scribus is most definitely not a word processor it belongs to the family of applications known as page layout programs. One of the challenges in creating PDFs, especially press-ready PDFs, is the necessity to know some of almost 100 distilling options in Adobe Acrobat Distiller. Conceptually, it helps to think of Scribus as a pretty face wrapped around a great PDF engine-an engine that greatly reduces the complexity in creating either press-ready high-resolution PDF files or fully interactive PDFs. Composing documents with a word processor is more like working with an intelligent typewriter. When dealing with text and images, it is like using a pasteboard. When using the drawing tools, working with Scribus is like having a canvas. Plus, PDF is supported on almost every modern computing platform available.Īt the most simplistic level, creating documents with Scribus is like grade-school cut and paste. PDF is similar to PostScript and is well documented by Adobe the draft PDF 1.5 reference manual is a slim 1,000+ pages. PDF, whose format is copyrighted by Adobe but licensed at no charge for other developers' use, offers flexibility, stability in format and broad application support. Scribus cleverly works around some of the potential limitations of Linux and UNIX as DTP platforms, by the extensive and flexible use of PDF as an output file format and to a lesser extent, PDF import. Thanks to the increasing polish of important support libraries, like freetype2, Ghostscript and CUPS, Linux desktop publishing is a reality. Moreover, Scribus brings other new capabilities beyond DTP with its ability to create PDF (portable document format) Web forms and interactive PDF documents. Linux users and their *nix cousins now have a versatile and user-friendly desktop publishing application with fresh approaches to the challenges of using Linux as a desktop publishing (DTP) platform. A frequent complaint is “I can't use Linux on the desktop because I am missing application X.” Scribus ably fills a missing piece-a graphical WYSIWYG page layout application. In contemplating the seemingly eternal question-Is Linux ready for the Desktop?-the recent release of Scribus 1.0 adds one more major reason to say yes.
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