With the free Scribus is an alternative to traditional desktop publishing tools such as Quark Xpress comes on the computer.
The freeware handles all facets of the digital layout of documents, newspapers and magazines. Also, users can easily create flyers with the program.
Complete desktop publishing solution
From the theorem on the color management to prepress Scribus manages all the details of desktop publishing. The software is a way similar to Adobe Illustrator to work. First, we determined in the so-called document structure, formats, margins, fonts or about color management. On the resulting set of surface you placed the actual content. Text and images are positioned with text or picture box.
Scribus created master pages with appearing on all pages of the compound document elements such as page numbers or logos. In these pages you bind a different article. All objects are edited with links to the appropriate open-source programs. Images Scribus opens in the Photoshop counterpart Gimp . For texts, the program accesses the integrated text editor, or alternatively on the OpenOffice word processor Writer back. The result Scribus exported in all common compression formats, PDF files or PostScript files.
Conclusion
Scribus works quickly and well together with important source formats. With the layout program you can also create flyers addition to professional products such as magazines and newspapers. Dealing with the elements is intuitive involved in the work context. Disadvantage: The program interface is not nearly as attractive as that of the fee-based competition.
Benefits
exported in all common formats
diverse functions
Disadvantages
complicated program interface
unsuitable for beginners
