Hi, the Scribus Team has been working hard (and continues to work hard) to license commercial colour palettes for distribution with Scribus, if possible under a Free license. These palettes will be added to 1.3.6svn and 1.5svn one by one.
However, not all vendors agreed to permit shipment of their colours with Scribus or bothered to reply at all. Hence, I started adding links to externally available palettes here: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Spot_Colour_Palettes_in_Scribus#Other_Vendors. Thanks to the wonderful (and powerful) Swatchbooker program (https://gna.org/projects/swatchbooker/), you can easily convert these palettes to Scribus XML colour palettes for use in Scribus 1.3.5+. If you know other sources for commercial colour palettes that can be downloaded legally, feel free to add them. I also uploaded a small set of additional Open Source colour palettes in Scribus's XML format (e.g. OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and LaTeX Beamer colours). These palettes will probably not be shipped with Scribus. For those who need palettes from a certain vendor, DTP-Studio Oldenburg (http://www.palettes.de/english/index.htm) offers palettes as EPS files at a reasonable price. Note that DTP-Studio donated some of these palettes for distribution with Scribus, and they will appear in svn soon. The EPS palettes have been tested with Scribus and just work (TM). Have fun! Christoph P.S.: And before you even think of asking: No, we have no license for Pantone colours, but we keep on trying ;)
