Scribus - (Open Source)
Scribus is a simple and free solution for creating great looking documents of all kinds.
Scribus is a free desktop publishing software, distributed under the GNU GPL license. It offers many features that sometimes equal or exceed those of its commercial competitors.
Although the Windows version suffer slowdowns and plant some rare moments, we must not forget that Scribus is a completely free software, which is not the case of Quark Xpress and InDesign. In terms of features, the three programs have the same and only the speed of implementation varies, commercial software here have their best advantage because they are better optimized Scribus.
The layout can be done block by block in a very precise way, to one hundredth of a millimeter. Another interesting point of Scribus, management layers that allows you to work more thoroughly the document.
Scribus offers a good solution for desktop publishing, offering all the basic features and although a little very close to Linux, relatively correct interface , color management (CMYK separations, ICC profiles, etc), Import / export SVG, EPS, etc.It offers the possibility of creating a diary when there are multiple items, providing the tools developed to facilitate insertion of images and tables.
Scribus is a suitable application for the production of booklets, books and magazines.
# Important enhancements:
* Scribus has been ported to the Haiku operating system.
* The Barcode Writer has been updated and supports many more barcodes, including QR.
* The Galaxy Gaugeâ„¢ color matching system and color tools have been included.
* New color palettes from government agencies (Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom) have been included.
* More Open Source color palettes have been included.
* Improvements to the build system.
* Improvements to the Preflight Verifier.
* The A4 page size limit of TeX-rendered graphics in Render Frames has been removed.
* The Short Words plug-in now supports Danish.
* Many updates to the Online Manual.
# Most important bugfixes:
* Disabled hyphenation on some Linux distributions is working again.
* Some unit conversion issues have been fixed.
* Display issues related to Ubuntu's Unity interface have been fixed.
* Some fixes to wrong or irritating UI behavior.
* Memory management in connection with the new Hyphenator has been optimized.
* Issues with the Clang compiler have been fixed.
* Scribus now supports Pillow as an alternative to the Python Imaging Library.
* Many translation updates.