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NAME

scribus - cross platform WYSIWYG desktop publishing app

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Scribus is an open source desktop publishing program. It provides
true WYSIWYG editing, excellent PDF export facilities, and a wide
range of other input and output options.

Please see the scribus documentation at http://docs.scribus.net/ or
the program's built in help for more comprehensive and up-to-date
documentation.

This man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the
program's use. It's main purpose is to make sure you can find the
full documentation quickly and easily.

OPTIONS

The definitive options are in the program's usage statement. Run:
scribus --help to view the usage statement.

-l, --lang xx
Overrides the system locale and runs Scribus in language xx.
The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes
that are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables.
For example, English can be selected with 'en' (generic
English), 'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US' (American
english), etc. Similarly, Deutsch can be selected with 'de' or
'de_DE'.

-la, --langs-available
Print a list of languages for which user interface
translations are available. To use that language run Scribus
as 'scribus -l xx' where xx is the short language code, or set
the locale environment variables as described below.

-v, --version
Prints the Scribus version number and exits.

-f, --file
Open the specified file. It's possible to simply pass the file
name as an unqualified argument instead of using this, though
if the name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg
'scribus -- -myfile.sla'.

-h, --help
Print a brief usage summary.

-fi, --font-info
Shows the font file listing as Scribus starts. This can be
used for diagnosing missing glyphs within fonts or possible
broken font files.

-pi, --profile-info
Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This
can be used for diagnosing missing or broken color profiles.

-pr, --prefs <filename>
Use filename as path for user given preferences.

-py, --python-script <script> [arguments ...]
Run script in Python [with optional arguments]. This option
must be last option used.

-ns, --no-splash
Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-
up.

-nns, --never-splash
Stop the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes an
empty file called .neversplash in ~/.config/scribus.

-sb, --swap-buttons
Use right to left dialog button ordering (eg. Cancel/No/Yes
instead of Yes/No/Cancel)

-u, --upgradecheck
Downloads a file from our scribus server indicating latest
available versions.

ENVIRONMENT

Scribus respects the standard locale environment variables. Others
may be used through underlying libraries, such as Qt, or by programs
used by Scribus. http://docs.scribus.net/ and the in-program
documentation may note other environment variables used by Scribus or
the programs and libraries it uses.

LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG
POSIX locale. See locale(1). Scribus uses these three
environment variables, in the listed order of precedence, to
select the language (including the user interface translation)
to use. If none are set, it will fall back on the locale set
by the underlying Qt library.

PATH Scribus may search the PATH for external tools if their paths
are not specified absolutely. This is currently most likely to
affect you if you have multiple copies of gs(1) installed. You
can set an absolute path to the correct gs(1) in your Scribus
preferences and bypass the PATH search.

A few important environment variables from other programs are
summarised here for convenience, though you should check the original
program's documentation if you are having trouble.

GS_FONTPATH
GhostScript font path. Affects the font search path for
GhostScript, a component Scribus uses for some PostScript
operations. Add new directories containing fonts to this
colon-separated list to help GhostScript find fonts in non-
standard locations. See gs(1) and the GhostScript HTML
documentation for more information.

GS_LIB GhostScript library path. GhostScript searches this path for
Fontmap files. Like GS_FONTPATH it's a colon separated list of
directories. You will usually want to use GS_FONTPATH instead,
though building a Fontmap file and using GS_LIB can speed
things up if you have a lot of fonts. See gs(1) and the
GhostScript HTML documentation for more information.

FILES

$HOME/.config/scribus/
User preferences are stored in $HOME/.config/scribus/ on Unix
or Linux. Most other paths are configurable from the Scribus
preferences. Scribus 1.5 preferences are separate from Scribus
1.3.x. User preferences for Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows are
documented in the help docs (F1) in Scribus.
$HOME/.config/scribus/scribus150.rc Scribus preferences file -
formatted in a custom xml schema. May eventually be retired in
favour of new format prefs file.
$HOME/.config/scribus/prefs150.xml Scribus 1.5.x preferences
are separate from Scribus 1.3.x

$HOME/.fonts/

$HOME/.fonts.conf

/etc/fonts
Fontconfig, the library used by Scribus to locate fonts, is
normally configured with files in /etc/fonts, mainly
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf . It may also
use a config file $HOME/.fonts.conf and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/
. See fonts.conf(5) and the fontconfig documentation for more
information. Note that Scribus may also use its internal font
path to locate more fonts - see the Preferences dialog and
scribus help.

RELATED SOFTWARE AND AFFILIATES

inkscape(1) - http://inkscape.org/

OpenClipArt - http://openclipart.org/

Fontmatrix - http://fontmatrix.be/

Other affiliates may be listed in the footer on
http://www.scribus.net/

BUGS

See http://bugs.scribus.net/ for the Scribus on-line status tracker,
which is used to track bug reports and feature requests. If you
intend to submit a bug report or feature request, please search the
bug database first.

AUTHORS

Please see the About Scribus option in the Help menu for a list of
authors, translators, and contributors.

Updated 2010-24-06 scribus(1)