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Scribus for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Scribus 1.6.3 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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    scribus-1.6.3.dmg

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Scribus for Mac is free software for editing documents, setting up layouts, typesetting, and crafting of interactive elements, which allows you to create professional-looking documents in PDF, Postscript, and other formats that can be even used as pre-printing documents for distribution of magazines, newspapers, newsletters, posters, books, and brochures. Scribus for macOS can be used by professionals and novice users alike who want to create eye-catching documents and interactive PDFs that they can distribute both for their personal projects, for school or work. To enable everyone to learn about all features of this highly capable app, users can contact an enthusiastic and friendly community around the app that assists beginner and pro alike through mailing lists, IRC channel, wiki, contracted support, and the bug-tracker. The tool supports many formats like MS Word documents, PDF, OASIS (Open Document), and more.

The first version of the app was released to the public in June of 2003, and ever since then, it managed to land on a truly astounding number of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, macOS, OpenBSD, Solaris, and many others. As one of the most popular open-source professional document building applications in the world, the tool managed to attract large attention of the public and even creation of several books that describe all of its functions and provide clear tutorials and examples for extracting everything that this app offers.

If you are interested in infusing your business with excellent software for the preparation of professional documents that will not break your budget, then you have to take a real close look at Scribus.

Features and Highlights

The easiest to point out aspect - the software is Free. You don't pay us a dime. The app is licensed under the General Public License, which makes it free and legal for use in any setting including commercial and governmental organizations.

Professionals and amateurs are producing top-quality publications with the tool, which is why the list of Scribus success stories keeps growing year after year.

Scribus produced PDF files are RIP-ready. Scribus PDFs are being constantly tested on both cutting edge printing house equipment and low-budget printers. The Team makes it its highest priority to respond to PDF generation inquiries without delay. The app was the first software to support several new generations of Adobe's PDF specifications well ahead of the commercial software.

Scribus User Mailing List is very active. Many Team members and professional DTP specialists frequently answer questions posted on the list.

A wealth of documentation including How-Tos, Tutorials, and articles on just about any aspect of DTP and the tool in several languages are present in professional made Wiki.

Several books in three languages have been published about the app, so you could probably find one that'll get you started right away.

Also Available: Download Scribus for Windows

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What's new in this version:

- [Build System] [macOS] release build of 1.6.2 contains ".svn" like it was a self-compiled version
- [Canvas] Opacity value in Layers palette not working if only one layer
- [Build System] Build error with poppler 25.01.0
- [General] 1.6.3svn - scribus crashes with signal 11
- [Styles] [odt2im] Used custom character styles are not effective in text frame after importing an ODT file
- [Build System] scribus uses a deprecated way of detecting boost
- [Import / Export] Importing of cmyk tiffs with 16bit depth does not work
- [Color Management] The CMYK image shows all wrong when added into Image Frame
- [Usability] Styles: Enter key in Name field opens New button drop-down menu
- [Styles] [odt2im] ' fo:language' attribute of imported styles is not kept
- [Story Editor / Text Frames] Characters with unicode code 65536+
- [Story Editor / Text Frames] Text selection highlight has render issues
- [Canvas] Auto guide grid messed up when changing document measurement unit
- [General] Scribus never read preferences of guide color and baseline color
- [Translation] Portuguese language: keep only pt_PT and pt_BR, remove pt
- [General] Update German Dictionary
- [Build System] After poppler-update to 24.11 compilation stalls on importpdf
- [User Interface] shortcut for itemAttributes does not work
- [Undo/Redo] Scribus crashes when undoing last Paragraph deletion in Story Editor
- [User Interface] item > attribute is no more
- [Graphics / Image Frames] SCRIBUS file manager cannot locate my external flash drives to get images from
- [Undo/Redo] delete frame with bookmark: undo restores the frame but not the bookmark
- [Scripter] Python functions for unit conversion
- [General] Crash when opening PDF and selecting import text as text
- [Import / Export] Special characters are not converted properly when pasting tables from Calc
- [Graphics / Image Frames] "Update Image" does not work when the image is not available.
- [Build System] 1.6.2 fails to build against poppler >= 24.10.0
- [Scripter] Incorrect page size used by ImageExport() -> save()
- [Scripter] Add script method getBaseLine() to complement setBaseLine()
- [PDF] Corrupt PDF generated
- [Translation] Outdated trolltech url
- [Translation] Non https urls in language files
- [Usability] Color Management: Color Menu width increases with each use of Color Management feature
- [Scripter] Scripter's ImageExporter ignores actual quality setting
- [Undo/Redo] Properties > Shape: The fill rule cannot be undone
- [General] In 1.6.2, the "fill rule" selection does not change when selecting a different item
- [User Interface] In menus (e.g. preferences or document setup) selecting empty field next to an entry doesn't activate dialog
- [User Interface] ScrSpinBox: Alt key modifier doesn't work on Linux
- [OS-MacOSX] New MacOS app and document icons
- [Scripter] Improved autotypo script for french typographic rules

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