Have not tried it and will not be doing so for several weeks but I ran into Scribus earlier today when looking for something else.
From their About page:
Libre Desktop Publishing
Welcome to Scribus, a page layout program for Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OpenIndiana, Debian GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, Haiku and Windows. Since its humble beginning in the spring of 2001, Scribus has evolved into one of the premier Open Source desktop applications. Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, with support from a large and growing number of enthusiastic contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to develop and improve “one of the most powerful and useful open-source projects out there” (TechRepublic). Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK colors, spot colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus has many unexpected touches, such as powerful vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus. The Scribus file format is XML-based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor – sometimes a challenging …
I will be giving this a shot - page layout software is something I use from time to time. I use Corel Draw which is excellent but very bloated and slow. Trying to go too many directions at once.
Just like QuickBooks has gotten to feature-rich (and correspondingly slow) for my liking (hence my switch to GnuCash), I would love to find a nimble alternative to Corel Draw.
Leave a comment