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Scribus Command Line Reference

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.

• -l, --lang xx
  Overrides the system locale and runs Scribus in language xx. The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes that are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. For example, English can be selected with 'en' (generic English), 'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US' (American english), etc. Similarly, German can be selected with 'de' or 'de_DE'.
• -la, --langs-available
  Print a list of languages for which user interface translations are available. To use that language run Scribus as 'scribus -l xx' where xx is the short language code.
• -v, --version
  Prints the Scribus version number and exits.
• -f, --file
  Open 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 - you will need to use --, eg 'scribus -- -myfile.sla'.
• -h, --help
  Print a brief usage summary.
• -fi, --font-info
  Shows the font file listing as Scribus starts. This can be used for diagnosing missing glyphs within fonts or possibly broken font files.
• -pi, --profile-info
  Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This can be used for diagnosing missing or broken color profiles.
• -ns, --no-splash
  Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-up.
• -nns, --never-splash
  Stop the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes an empty file called .neversplash in ~/.scribus.
• -sb, --swap-buttons
  Use right to left dialog button ordering (e.g. Cancel/No/Yes instead of Yes/No/Cancel)
• -u, --upgradecheck
  Downloads a file from our scribus server indicating latest available versions.

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