Scribus – Free Open Source Desk Top Publishing Software

You really can get some excellent software for free now! My friend Darren from Travel-Rants let me know about this free desktop publishing software that he has used to create his ebook PDF.

Scribus is a an open source project so expect everything that entails, and all the benefits too. Yes, it has rough edges, and usability is not necessarily a strong suit, but features are being added and they seem to be on top of bugs.

All major desktop operating systems are supported, linux, windows and in my case, Apple Mac. Which is very cool because I was in the past resorting to booting up the old windows machine just because it had Microsoft Publisher on it, but now I can do pretty much all publisher can do on my Macbook without spending any money. Powerful, Mac compatible and free.

Yes, completely free!

Feature-wise it is complete enough for most small business needs. It’s obviously not going to be the kind of thing that expert DTP gurus and newspaper publishers are going to need, but how many of us require industrial strength software on a day to day basis?

As well as all the most required elements, and in particular those necessary for laying out text, there are a whole bunch of templates freely available for everything from leaflets to presentations.

The only major issue I have had is getting Ghostscript onto my Mac, without it print preview does not work.

I only just got this and installed it so I would love for you to tell me about your experiences.

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
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