If you haven’t tried Scribus, you should. It’s a free and open source desktop publisher that rivals Adobe Pagemaker.
Scribus makes use of frames. For example, to enter text you have to create a frame first. Likewise with images that you want to insert. The frames are resizeable and moveable. This makes it easy to layout your work.
Using the text frame, if a certain length of text is too long, you are able to resize the frame and cut the text; and then create another frame and automatically have the frame paste in the remaining text.
The Scribus interface is user friendly and the software supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
There are versions for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. There is a very active support forum and mailing list so you don’t get lost in trying to learn how to use the software.
You can download a copy from scribus.net.
September 29th, 2009 - 9:11 am
Thank you for this.
I’ve been asked to design a party invitation, and this program sounds like just the thing I need.
I shall give it a try.
September 30th, 2009 - 10:55 am
Hi Kev,
This is quite a versatile app. I used Adobe Pagemaker before I switched to Linux and I find Scribus almost like it but better.