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Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Some Program Features:

• Scribus imports many common text formats including OASIS (Open Document) and MS Word docs (via antiword)
• 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 and Page Palettes allow for easy page management
• Document-wide layers – editable and items can be moved within layers
• Paragraph styles with numerous paragraph and text style options (alignment, fonts)
• Integrated Style Manager for managing Paragraph, Character and Line Styles
• 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
• Sophisticated type handling including manual kerning of type, optical margins and word and glyph spacing options.

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