By Cat Ellis
There are stacks of open source programs for word processing and other office tasks, but far fewer for desktop publishing. Thankfully, Scribus is the only one you need. It’s packed with all the features you need for creating your own magazines, newsletters, posters and many other document types.
In fact, Scribus is so packed with professional-quality tools, it could even replace Adobe InDesign in the toolbox of indie designers and publishers.
Scribus has been in constant development for 13 years, and its powers include professional typesetting and colour management (but not Pantone colours due to licensing, although you can add Pantone yourself) as well as online publications such as interactive forms and PDFs.
It’s an astonishingly powerful piece of software, with an interface that looks and feels like a program with an astonishingly high price tag.
The only real niggle is that Scribus can’t open or save the files of other desktop publishing apps, so if you have a huge library of InDesign or Quark projects updating them could take some time.
User experience
Scribus will take a little whole to master if you’ve never used a similar program before, but if you’re used to InDesign’s system of frames and layers, there learning curve is pretty …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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