Install Scribus Ubuntu

Scribus is a Libre Open Source Desktop publishing application for Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenIndiana, Debian GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, Haiku as well as Windows.

Highlights Of Features

• Tabbed view for multiple documents as well as Embedding of pixmaps in SLA files
• Rewrite preferences load and save functions, as well as GUI
• Move files around in the svn tree… gui to gui subdir, docs out of source tree etc
• Merge gradient, pattern and solid colour management
• Better handling of locked standard palettes
• Improvements to colour support in the Barcode Generator
• Some render frame code refactoring as well as Gradients and patterns as strokes
• Mesh gradients as well as support for PDF 3D annotations
• Object “symbols” as in Illustrator
• Tables rewrite as well as added missing PDF Forms features
• Editable inline frames
• More PDF/X export options
• Cursor positioning bugs
• Integration of GSoC project: Picture Browser

The latest development release v1.5.3svn comes with some new features as well as some improvements. This includes:

• Now comes with a new text layout engine with support for OpenType advanced features, as well as complex and right-to-left scripts. For text features, a separate “Text Properties” palette has been created
• Also comes with an import filter for Krita files (KRA)

How to install Scribus 1.5.3 development build on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scribus/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install scribus-trunk

How to remove Scribus development build from Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get remove scribus-trunk

How to install Scribus 1.5.3 development build on CentOS, RHEL

Note: Please note that the repository as at today is yet to be updated with latest release

yum install scribus