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..