alefpress / alefpress

Desktop publishing program for the next generation

Alefpress - Open Source Desktop Publishing

About Alefpress

Alefpress is a downstream distribution from scribus. One of the reasons for that – allow users to distinguish our builds from official ones to avoid confusions. Also, this way of differentiating is a necessary requirement to allow us apply for some development funding programs, which gives us a chance to get an extra funding for scribus development.

This step shouldn’t be considered as “forking” in terms of “schism” (as given by Wikipedia – “a split in the developer community”). We plan to continue submitting our changes to official scribus repository via pull requests and looking forward for further collaboration.

Alefpress's Goals

• Better support for non-Latin Languages.
• make Scribus stable & reliable.

History

We start scribus development in 2015 as HOST-Oman project. We succeed at landing Complex text layout features into Scribus 1.5.3. These features are but not limited to:

• support RTL languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew).
• support Bi-directional text.
• support Indic Scripts and Languages.
• support more than 500 languages.
• support OpenType Font Features.
• allow customization of hyphenation character
• add ability to link selected text frames directly
• Loading and render long docs are faster.

Contributing

Once you have made a change that you are happy with, contribute it back, we’ll be happy to integrate it! Just fork the repository and make a pull request.