Scribus Command Line Reference

Just like any other program, Scribus can be launched from the command line. Here are the command line options for Linux/UNIX (including Mac OS X). On other operating systems the parameters may have to be used differently.


Notes:

As of version 1.5.3, there has been a change in the location of various preferences and user data.

Previously, these were all stored in a directory .scribus, where you would find charpalette.ucp, checkfonts.xml, prefs140.xml, scribus140.rc, scribusshapes.xml, and scribus-short-words.rc, plus the directories downloads, palettes, plugins, scrapbook, swatches, and temp.

With 1.5.3, checkfonts.xml, prefs150.xml, scribus150.rc, and scribusshapes.xml are now found in the .config/scribus directory.
In the directory .local/share/scribus, you will now find charpalette.ucp, scribus-short-words.rc, and the directories cache, doc, palettes, plugins, scrapbook, and temp