Scribus is an application specifically designed to cater to different desktop publishing needs. It is free software which was initially based on the Qt toolkit. It works on different platforms such as Windows 2000 and later versions, OS/2, eComStation, Linux, Unix and several Unix-like systems as well as Mac OS X. Scribus has several page layout features that can be found on some other applications like PagePlus and Adobe PageMaker. Scribus is specially designed for typesetting and layout with the aim of preparing the files to be used for image setting. It also has the capability of creating interactive as well as animated presentations in PDF format. It supports several formats in bitmap which includes Adobe Photoshop, JPEG and TIFF. This application is being supported in 24 different languages. Scribus includes a scripting engine that is built-in on the program itself that runs on Python.