FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Richard J. Cichelli, President Software Consulting Services, LLC 630 Municipal Drive, Suite 420 Nazareth, PA 18064 USA Phone: 1-800-568-8006, 1-610-746-7700 Email: [email protected] www.newspapersystems.com

SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICES ANNOUNCES ScrImLay, an importer of Layout-8000™ geometries into Scribus (an open source desktop publishing application)

Nazareth, PA (March 17, 2014) –

Software Consulting Services, LLC (www.newspapersystems.com), the co- inventor of QuarkXtensions, has released version 14.0.1 of the advertising dummying system Layout-8000™. One of its major new features is support for Scribus 1.4.3 and later versions on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

SCS will provide, at no cost to its Layout-8000 customers on support, a powerful Scribus plug-in called ScrImLay ( Scri bus Im porter from Lay out), which is written in Python and licensed under the GPL. ScrImLay enables import of Layout-8000 geometry files into Scribus and offers the same functionalities as the respective plug-ins for InDesign (InLay ™) and QuarkXPress (SCS/LinX™). A comparison between the results in InDesign, QuarkXPress and Scribus can be found here: http://bit.ly/1cBVcdC

Scribus is also being supported for ad building from within SCS's CAS/CDS (Community Advertising Services/Community Display Services) application.

SCS will help customers to set up Scribus and walk their staff through the entire process.

The Scribus Developers Team has invited SCS to submit candidate code to their development efforts. SCS will do this and further actively participate in the Scribus community by promoting Scribus to its newspaper customers..

# About SCS: Founded in 1975, Software Consulting Services, LLC (SCS), located in Nazareth, PA, is committed to providing publications worldwide with trusted newspaper systems. SCS’s newsroom systems integrate reporting, editing, pagination and archiving. SCS’s advertising and business systems unite sales, design, production, pagination, accounting and archiving. More than 300 publishing sites in the U.S. and abroad use SCS software every day. For more information, visit the SCS web site at www.newspapersystems.com . ###