Scribus has many unexpected touches, 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. The Scribus file format is XML-based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor – sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages, and more are coming in the future. The file format, called SLA, is based on XML. Text can be imported from OpenDocument text documents, as well as OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft- Word, PDB (Palm OS) and HTML formats. ODT files can typically be imported along with their par.
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