There are numerous posts around the internet implying that Win 8.1 will not allow Scribus to run. Today is April 6, 2014 and I just installed and ran Scribus on my window 8.1 Dell computer with no problems. It is a new Dell 660S, just for the record. First I installed ghostscript, as instructed and then Scribus. After the installation of Scribus, the installer opened the program, I was able to open a Scribus file from last year that was on my old computer and make edits. The downloads were initiated from the Scribus.net site; but were redirected to Sourceforge.