Scribus is useful, free and reliable open source page layout program (DTP) with the aim of producing conformant commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript., along with extensive support for graphical PDF form and PDF presentations.

While the goals of the program are ease of use and simple easy to understand tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such as CMYK colors, easy PDF creation and Encapsulated Postscript import/export. Other professional features include full ICC color management, spot colors and creation of color separations.

Scribus is commercially supported and is available for Linux/*nix/BSD, along with MacOSX(R) and Windows(R). Scribus is used around the world for newspaper production, book publishing and a wide variety of page layout tasks.

Recommended:

• XP Themes Disabled - Use the "Windows Classic" theme is very strongly recommended on lower end systems
• Install Ghostscript for Windows - Ghostscript 8.53 or newer is recommended. This is important for EPS,PS import and printing..

What's New in version 1.3.5.1:

• 1.3.5 is based on Qt 4 (the minimum required to run 1.3.5 is Qt 4.4.0)
• A native OS X version, available as DMG file (Universal Binary)
• Improved menu integration with OS X
• Large parts of the canvas and text code have been rewritten
• A new frame type called Render Frames, which allows for rendering markup languages like LaTeX or POV-Ray inside Scribus
• Added import filters for the following vector formats: Adobe Illustrator, Xfig, WMF
• Added import filters for colour palettes, including allowing palette import from EPS/AI files
• Major improvements to the handling of solid colours, as well as new colour palettes
• Drag and drop improvements
• PDF 1.5 presentation effect support
• Optional embedding of PDF and EPS files
• Transform effects for items
• Path tools for shapes
• Added more additional default shapes, line patterns and arrowheads
• A new line editor for custom line styles
• A new Quick Start Guide in the Help Browser, as well as other major updates and enhancements to the online help
• Significant enhancements to existing features like the Scrapbook, the Image Manager or the Font Preview