Get started with Scribus

Scribus is a free and open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

What Can You Do With Scribus

Use Scribus to design and produce magazines, newsletters, print-advertising, brochures, calendars, and pretty much anything that requires text to look visually appealing on paper.

Scribus is also a great tool for authoring PDF documents with advanced features such as forms, buttons, passwords, and more. You can make your PDF documents even more 'intelligent' by using Javascript from within Scribus. Our tutorial focuses on how to use Scribus for professional-grade design of publications. It also shows a brief glimpse of how to create an intelligent PDF.

So let's get started. In this Scribus Tutorial, seven pages for a magazine are designed, including its cover page. Yet within these seven pages, you'll learn enough to create an entire 100-page magazine, or even a full-blown newspaper.