A Graphics.com egyik cikkében azt olvashatjuk, hogy megjelnt a Scribus névre hallgató "publishing" szoftver 1.0-ás verziója. Több, mint két év fejlesztés után Franz Schmid kiadta a 17 nyelven kommunikáló, első nyílt forrású DTP szoftvert, amellyel professzionális minőségű "sajtókész" anyagokat lehet készíteni.
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A program fontosabb funkciói, jellemzői: * A modern user friendly interface developed with Qt. Scribus can run on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and soon Mac OSX. An experimental version running on KDE-Cygwin and Windows 2000 is in testing.
* Unicode support including support for right to left scripts.
* Can export CMYK separations and "press-ready" PDF including PDF 1.4 features such as transparency.
* The only DTP application to create fully ISO compliant PDF/X-3 files.
* A powerful PDF export engine capable of creating fully interactive PDF forms, presentation effects and encrypted PDF.
* ICC color management via the littlecms color management engine.
* Exports high-quality PDF, SVG and EPS.
* Powerful cross-platform Python Scripting language extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.
* Uses XML as a native file format. The Scribus XML format has been fully documented.