Linux doesn't have Microsoft Publisher, but we do have alternative tools. Today we'll talk about an excellent application we can use.
Scribus is a page layout program, licensed as free software , created for publication design, typesetting and preparing files for professional-quality computer image configuration equipment and is available in 24 languages.
About Scribus
Scribus was generated using the Qt development library and is available in versions for operating systems such as GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows.
It provides design and layout capabilities similar to those offered by commercial programs such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and Adobe InDesign.
Among its most relevant features, Scribus supports most major graphic formats, in addition to SVG, font and image handling, CMYK color manipulation, and ICC color management.
It uses PostScript Level 3 printing, including support for TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType fonts. The driver fully supports PostScript Level 2 constructs and a large subset of Level 3 constructs.
Scribus offers the ability to prepare files for professional imaging equipment. You can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Examples of its application include newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters, and books.
Scribus leverages features found in other open-source applications . For example, it's easy to load documents created from the OpenOffice.org suite: Writer, Spreadsheet, and Presenter.
This reduces page layout for new projects from scratch if preliminary materials are already available.
Another feature in Scribus is that it uses GIMP to edit the graphics placed in the layout of a Scribus page.
How to install Scribus on the different Linux distributions?
For those who are interested in being able to install this application on their system, they can do so by typing one of the following commands according to the Linux distribution they are using.
Because Scribus is the standard desktop publishing tool for many Linux operating systems, its installation is relatively simple on many Linux distributions.
If you are a user of Debian, Ubuntu, or any other derivative distribution, you can install Scribus directly from their official repositories.
They will only have to open a terminal on their systems and type the following command:
sudo apt install scribus
For users of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos and other Arch Linux derivatives, this application can be installed from their repositories.
However, they will need to have the "Community" software repository enabled . This is not enabled by default on some Arch derivatives.
To resolve this, we'll need to edit our pacman.conf file. We do this by opening a terminal and typing:
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
Here they will have to navigate through the file with the navigation keys and they will have to find the repository with a # symbol in front of »Community«.
You will only have to remove the #. Once this is done, save the changes with Ctrl + O and to exit you can use Ctrl + X.
Then in a terminal they must type:
sudo pacman -syy
sudo pacman -S scribus
For users of Fedora and derivatives, the Scribus desktop publishing application is available through major software sources.
They will only have to open a terminal and type the following command:
sudo dnf install scribus
Finally, for those who are users of OpenSUSE in any of its versions, you can install this application by typing the following command:
sudo zypper install scribus
For all other Linux distributions, you can obtain this application by installing it from the Flathub repositories.
They will just have to have Flatpak support added to their system.
In a terminal they will have to type the following commands:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub net.scribus.Scribus
flatpak run net.scribus.Scribus