- January 2024 by Craig Bradney
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.0. Scribus 1.6.0 is the long awaited release in the next stable series, replacing 1.4.8 and development versions in the 1.5.x series. This version has been in development for some years and contains thousands of enhancements and fixes across all areas of the program. It has more features, is faster, and is more stable. All users of versions of 1.5.x and lower should migrate to 1.6.0.
I’ll be honest, I’ve used scribus some and have not liked it. I hope that this makes it better. I much prefer a local Foss program to being forced to run a VM for publisher or make stuff in canva.
I’m not gonna lie, Scribus does layout pretty well but the interface makes it a bit of a chore when you’re coming from another software like Publisher or Indesign.
The UI feels really clunky and unhelpful. Even essential palettes pop up in floating, non-resizable windows that take up enough screen real estate that you close them immediately.
I have to work some more in Scribus to really judge it fairly but that doesn’t change with the new version, I’m sorry to say.