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What is different about Scribus ? First, Scribus was developed first and foremost on Linux and Unix machines, so sometimes the way things work are not always the 'windows way', but a more OS neutral way. Scribus also is natively ported to MacOSX and the behavior changes are mostly in the way the menus work. Second, a great deal of time and effort has been put into Scribus to generate very high quality commercial grade PDF. Provided you follow the recommended workflow in the documentation, you should have few issues with commercial printing.
Recommended:
XP Themes Disabled - Use the "Windows Classic" theme is very strongly recommended. There is a known issue with Custom Themes causing document loading problems. This is especially true with third party themes.
After Installing
The first launch of Scribus or when a new user launches Scribus will be much longer than usual. This is because Scribus is creating a cache file of your fonts. Later re-starts will be much quicker. When you select the "Extra Fonts" Option in the installer, this installs two sets of high quality, freely distributable font. One set is the the URW fonts from Ghostscript. This includes 45 type faces which are
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commonly included with most PostScript printers. The second is the Bitstream Vera font family, widely used on Linux and by many of the included templates. Again, Scribus is very particular about font quality. Use of freeware or shareware fonts is not recommended. There is an extensive and informative set of notes in the online help about fonts and commercial grade printing. Scribus scans fonts on launch and will disable obviously broken or problematic fonts. Those notes are based on experience both with Scribus and commercial printing.