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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.   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'.  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.  Prints the Scribus version number and exits.  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'.  Print a brief usage summary.  Shows the font file listing as Scribus starts. This can be used for diagnosing missing glyphs within fonts or possibly broken font files.  Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This can be used for diagnosing missing or broken color profiles.  Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-up.</li>  Stop the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes an empty file called .neversplash in ~/.scribus.</li>  Use right to left dialog button ordering (e.g. Cancel/No/Yes instead of Yes/No/Cancel)</li>  Downloads a file from our scribus server indicating latest available versions.</li> </ul>