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Scribus Portable v1.4.2

Emka on 19 Jan 2013
  • 137MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by JohnW

Scribus is a desktop-publishing tool similar to Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher. It supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Includes support for a wide variety of file types via import filters, rendering of markup languages, and XML file format. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Scribus is cross-platform and open source. Scribus Portable is a PortableApps.com version of the software. Alternatively, X-Scribus is also available.

Win2K users: Version 1.3 series option (unsupported): Portable Scribus - (choose English or multilingual, extract to any folder of your choice and Launch PortableScribus.exe)

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System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ScribusPortable.exe.

Optionally, to enable a variety of PDF functions, install Ghostscript Portable to the folder adjacent to ScribusPortable (e.g. If you have installed Portable Scribus to Z:\PortableApps\ScribusPortable, install Ghostscript to Z:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\Ghostscript)
What's new? Most important changes
  • New spellchecker based on Hunspell
  • 64-bit versions available for Windows Vista, 7 and 8
  • Documentation updates (including translations)
  • Updated UI translations
  • A security update for the Python Scripter (Windows)
  • Fixes to issues with file locations and file names (Windows)
  • Fixes and an enhancement to the Scripter
  • Additional build options
  • Major and minor bugfixes, ranging from crashes in some corner cases to usability improvements
Latest comments
mac on 2010-11-28 15:41

In X-Scribus 1.3.3.4, the only font colors are black and white!? Could anybody help me how to fix this? Thanks!

Emka on 2011-12-26 21:44

winpenpack hosts x-scribus 1.3.3.14

Danix on 2012-02-12 11:56

X-Scribus 1.4.0 is hosted here http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1325
Please update the link in main description.

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