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<h4>Scribus Command Line Reference
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<p>Just like any other program, Scribus can be launched from the command line. Below you find the command line options for Linux/UNIX (including Mac OS X). On other operating systems the parameters may have to be used differently.
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<li><code>-l, --lang xx
</code><br>
Overrides the system locale and runs Scribus in language
<code>xx
</code>. The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes that are used in the
<code>LANG
</code> and
<code>LC_ALL
</code> environment variables. For example, English can be selected with
‘en
’ (generic English),
‘en_GB
’ (British English),
‘en_US
’ (American english), etc. Similarly, reformed German can be selected with
‘de
’ or
‘de_DE
’, traditional German with
‘de_1901
’, and Swiss German with
‘de_CH
’.
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<li><code>-la, --langs-available
</code><br>
Prints a list of languages for which user interface translations are available. To use that language run Scribus as
<code>scribus -l xx
</code> where
<code>xx
</code> is the short language code.
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<li><code>-v, --version
</code><br>
Prints the Scribus version number and exits.
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<li><code>-f, --file
</code><br>
Opens the specified file. It
’s possible to simply pass the file name as an unqualified argument instead of using this, though if the name begins with a dash (
<code>-
</code>) you will need to use
<code>--
</code>, e.g.,
<code>scribus -- -myfile.sla
</code>.
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<li><code>-h, --help
</code><br>
Prints a brief usage summary.
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<li><code>-fi, --font-info
</code><br>
Shows the font file listing as Scribus starts. This can be used for diagnosing missing glyphs within fonts or possibly broken font files.
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<li><code>-pi, --profile-info
</code><br>
Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This can be used for diagnosing missing or broken color profiles.
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<li><code>-ns, --no-splash
</code><br>
Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-up.
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<li><code>-nns, --never-splash
</code><br>
Stops the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes an empty file called .neversplash in
<code>~/.scribus
</code>.
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<li><code>-sb, --swap-buttons
</code><br>
Uses right to left dialog button ordering (e.g. Cancel/No/Yes instead of Yes/No/Cancel)
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<li><code>-u, --upgradecheck
</code> <br>
Downloads a file from our scribus server indicating the latest available versions.
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