Upstream builds of Scribus for Windows bundle antiword with with Scribus. Scribus uses antiword as an import filter for legacy Microsoft Office. py, -python-script Run script in Python. v, -version Output version information and exit u, -upgradecheck Download a file from the Scribus website and show the latest available version pi, -profile-info Show location of ICC profile information on console while starting pr, -prefs Use path for user given preferences location nns, -never-splash Stop showing the splashscreen on startup. ns, -no-splash Do not show the splashscreen on startup la, -langs-available List the currently installed interface languages l, -lang Uses xx as shortcut for a language, eg `en' or `de' h, -help Print help (this message) and exit fi, -font-info Show information on the console when fonts are being loaded User $ scribus -help Scribus, Open Source Desktop Publishing rtf, MarkDown, and plain text will work but by their nature contain no useful paragraph formatting information. Lowest common denominator file formats such as. doc files is possible indirectly via antiword. Indirect support for legacy Microsoft Word. docx can be read by Scribus with reasonable fidelity.

Additionally, HTML and PUB documents have a high degree of support as well. odt documents have the highest degree of support, Scribus' import filter can import document text along with paragraph style information. Scribus can import text from a variety of common open formats with various limitations. Images tables have their own frame types and, much like commonly used graphics programs such as GIMP, frames can be layered to achive a specific effect. Text must be placed inside of a text frame. In Scribus the document is just a canvas with various frames. It is Unicode native and supports layouts with complex scripts such as kanji and right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. Scribus uses its own XML-based file format. Scribus is a full-featured Qt-based desktop publishing package available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and other operating systems.

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