scribus(1)

1scribus(1)                  General Commands Manual                 scribus(1)
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NAME

6       scribus - cross platform WYSIWYG desktop publishing app
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SYNOPSIS

9       scribus  [-h|--help]  [-v|--version] [-l|--lang language] [-la|--langs-
10       available] [-f|--file|--] [filename]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Scribus is an open source desktop publishing program. It provides  true
14       WYSIWYG  editing,  excellent PDF export facilities, and a wide range of
15       other input and output options.
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17       Please see the scribus documentation at http://docs.scribus.net/ or the
18       program's  built in help for more comprehensive and up-to-date documen‐
19       tation.
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21       This man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the  program's
22       use. It's main purpose is to make sure you can find the full documenta‐
23       tion quickly and easily.
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OPTIONS

26       The definitive options are  in  the  program's  usage  statement.  Run:
27       scribus --help to view the usage statement.
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30       -l, --lang xx
31              Overrides the system locale and runs Scribus in language xx. The
32              language is specified with the same POSIX  language  codes  that
33              are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. For exam‐
34              ple, English  can  be  selected  with  'en'  (generic  English),
35              'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US' (American english), etc. Sim‐
36              ilarly, Deutsch can be selected with 'de' or 'de_DE'.
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38       -la, --langs-available
39              Print a list of languages for which user interface  translations
40              are  available.  To use that language run Scribus as 'scribus -l
41              xx' where xx is the short language code, or set the locale envi‐
42              ronment variables as described below.
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44       -v, --version
45              Prints the Scribus version number and exits.
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47       -f, --file
48              Open  the  specified file. It's possible to simply pass the file
49              name as an unqualified argument instead of using this, though if
50              the name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg 'scribus --
51              -myfile.sla'.
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53       -h, --help
54              Print a brief usage summary.
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56       -fi, --font-info
57              Shows the font file listing as Scribus starts. This can be  used
58              for  diagnosing  missing  glyphs within fonts or possible broken
59              font files.
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62              Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This can
63              be used for diagnosing missing or broken color profiles.
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65       -ns, --no-splash
66              Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-up.
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68       -nns, --never-splash
69              Stop the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes an empty
70              file called .neversplash in ~/.scribus.
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72       -sb, --swap-buttons
73              Use right to left  dialog  button  ordering  (eg.  Cancel/No/Yes
74              instead of Yes/No/Cancel)
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76       -u, --upgradecheck
77              Downloads  a  file  from  our  scribus  server indicating latest
78              available versions.
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ENVIRONMENT

82       Scribus respects the standard locale environment variables. Others  may
83       be  used  through underlying libraries, such as Qt, or by programs used
84       by Scribus.  http://docs.scribus.net/ and the in-program  documentation
85       may  note  other  environment variables used by Scribus or the programs
86       and libraries it uses.
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88       LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG
89              POSIX locale. See locale(1).  Scribus uses these three  environ‐
90              ment variables, in the listed order of precedence, to select the
91              language (including the user interface translation) to  use.  If
92              none  are set, it will fall back on the locale set by the under‐
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95       PATH   Scribus may search the PATH for external tools  if  their  paths
96              are  not  specified absolutely. This is currently most likely to
97              affect you if you have multiple copies of gs(1)  installed.  You
98              can  set  an  absolute path to the correct gs(1) in your Scribus
99              preferences and bypass the PATH search.
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101       A few important environment variables  from  other  programs  are  sum‐
102       marised here for convenience, though you should check the original pro‐
103       gram's documentation if you are having trouble.
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105       GS_FONTPATH
106              GhostScript font path. Affects the font search path  for  Ghost‐
107              Script, a component Scribus uses for some PostScript operations.
108              Add new directories containing  fonts  to  this  colon-separated
109              list  to  help GhostScript find fonts in non-standard locations.
110              See gs(1) and the GhostScript HTML documentation for more infor‐
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113       GS_LIB GhostScript  library  path.  GhostScript  searches this path for
114              Fontmap files. Like GS_FONTPATH it's a colon separated  list  of
115              directories.  You  will usually want to use GS_FONTPATH instead,
116              though building a Fontmap file and using GS_LIB can speed things
117              up  if  you  have  a lot of fonts. See gs(1) and the GhostScript
118              HTML documentation for more information.
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FILES

121       $HOME/.scribus/
122              User preferences are stored in $HOME/.scribus/ on Unix or  Linux
123              .  Most  other  paths  are configurable from the Scribus prefer‐
124              ences. Scribus 1.3 preferences are separate from  Scribus  1.2.x
125              User  preferences  for Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows are documented
126              in the help docs (F1) in  Scribus.   $HOME/.scribus/scribus13.rc
127              Scribus preferences file - formatted in a custom xml schema. May
128              eventually be retired  in  favour  of  new  format  prefs  file.
129              $HOME/.scribus/prefs13.xml  Scribus  1.3.8 preferences are sepa‐
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136       /etc/fonts
137              Fontconfig, the library used by Scribus to locate fonts, is nor‐
138              mally    configured    with    files   in   /etc/fonts,   mainly
139              /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf .  It  may  also
140              use a config file $HOME/.fonts.conf and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/ .
141              See fonts.conf(5) and  the  fontconfig  documentation  for  more
142              information.  Note  that  Scribus may also use its internal font
143              path to locate more fonts  -  see  the  Preferences  dialog  and
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RELATED SOFTWARE AND AFFILIATES

158       inkscape(1) - http://inkscape.org/
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160       OpenClipArt - http://openclipart.org/
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162       Fontmatrix - http://fontmatrix.net
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164       Other affiliates may be listed in the footer on http://www.scribus.net/
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BUGS

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

175       Please  see  the  About  Scribus  option in the Help menu for a list of
176       authors, translators, and contributors.
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180                              Updated 2010-24-06                    scribus(1)