Scribus Free Open-Source Professional Desktop Publishing Application

By Stephen Bucaro

If you can afford to burn hundred-dollar bills like cigars, you can do professional desktop publishing with applications like Adobe InDesign ($600.00) or Quarkxpress ($600.00). Otherwise, you can do professional desktop publishing with the free open-source Scribus Professional Desktop Publishing Application.

Scribus is a free professional open-source desktop publishing program comparable to leading commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PagePlus, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. It supports professional features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and robust commercial grade PDF.

Use Scribus to design and produce magazines, newsletters, print-advertising, brochures, calendars, posters, books, and pretty much anything that requires text to look visually appealing on paper. It's also a great tool for authoring PDF documents with advanced features such as forms, buttons, passwords, and more. You can make your PDF documents even more "intelligent" by using Javascript from within Scribus.

Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. It supports most major image formats in addition to SVG. Professional type / image setting features include CMYK colors and ICC color management.

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