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Alefpress - Open Source Desktop Publishing

About Alefpress

Alefpress is a downstream distribution from scribus. One of the reasons for that – allow users to distinguish our builds from official ones to avoid confusions. Also, this way of differentiating is a necessary requirement to allow us apply for some development funding programs, which gives us a chance to get an extra funding for scribus development.

This step shouldn’t be considered as “forking” in terms of “schism” (as given by Wikipedia – “a split in the developer community”). We plan to continue submitting our changes to official scribus repository via pull requests and looking forward for further collaboration.

Alefpress's Goals

  • Better support for non-Latin Languages.
  • make Scribus stable & reliable.

History

We start scribus development in 2015 as HOST-Oman project. We succeed at landing Complex text layout features into Scribus 1.5.3. These features are but not limited to:

  • support RTL languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew).
  • support Bi-directional text.
  • support Indic Scripts and Languages.
  • support more than 500 languages.
  • support OpenType Font Features.
  • allow customization of hyphenation character
  • add ability to link selected text frames directly
  • Loading and render long docs are faster.

Contributing

Once you have made a change that you are happy with, contribute it back, we’ll be happy to integrate it! Just fork the repository and make a pull request.