When you first start up Scribus, you will get a New Document window. If you already know about CMS and have implemented it for Photoshop or something else, then you won’t need to re-invent the wheel here. It is small enough it won’t hurt to have standing by on your computer just in case.
We won’t get to color management for a while, but if you want to get everything all at once, look into a program called Little CMS at As I said, Windows comes with CMS built in, so you won’t have to have this, but Little CMS is cross platform and “little” so it can come in handy. The purpose of color management is to match what you see on your computer screen with what shows up on your printer, or more specifically, what shows up on the machines at your printshop. Windows (and Mac) come with a Color Management System (CMS) built in. However, when it comes to complicated PDF files (and Scribus can make some doozeys if you push it) nothing works as well as the Adobe Reader, so you’ll need it too. Use Foxit as your default viewer inside Firefox or IE and you won’t have that super delay anymore. It can load faster if you let a stub load at startup, but then you are wasting memory for all that time you are not using the reader. If you’ve ever clicked on a web page link to a large 20-plus page PDF file and then waited for two minutes before your computer started responding to your keyboard again, you were waiting for Adobe Reader to start up in your browser. The standard Adobe Reader is free from I also like to use Foxit Reader, which is much smaller, takes way less memory, and loads a lot faster. You’ll need a way to read PDF files in order to check your work. Someday, you might want to tweak it, but not until you know the program better. For Scribus, just take the full install for now. For Ghostscript there are no options other than the directory to install in.
Double click the exe files then follow the wizard. Ghostscript is housed at Sourceforge, so you can do a search there or this link should get you there: īoth programs work in standard Windows fashion. Otherwise, there are specific directions for other operating systems here: įor Windows, you also need Ghostscript and it does not come bundled inside the Scribus package. I’ll be using Windows XP so you can follow along if you are too. Get the latest stable release download from and follow the install instructions for your operating system. Installing Scribus is pretty straightforward.
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