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Scribus includes many useful features, such as powerful vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness, or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus.

It supports many quality publishing features, such as CMYK colors, spot color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. Scribus is now completely cross-platform and runs natively on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows. You can make your PDF documents even more 'intelligent' by using Javascript from within Scribus. Scribus is also a great tool for authoring PDF documents with advanced features such as forms, buttons, passwords, and more. Scribus will help design and produce magazines, newsletters, print advertising, brochures, calendars, and pretty much anything that requires text to look visually appealing on paper.
