Similar Programs

Here is a list for similar programs that exist beneath Scribus.

See also a related listing of commercial DTP tools at web links on www.scribus.net

Purely DTP

Adobe InDesign http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/

Major player

Adobe PageMaker http://www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker/

Largely deprecated in favour of InDesign.

Apple Pages http://www.apple.com/au/iwork/pages/

Newly introduced for enduser and part of the iWork package.

Deneba Canvas http://www.deneba.com/

Page layout software with a huge amount of additional features for Win32 and MacOS X.

QuarkXPress http://www.quark.com/

Major player

Passepartout http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/

Open Source using GTK+ in a very early stage.

RagTime Solo http://www.ragtime-online.com/

So called "Office Publishing" software. A mixture between office suite and and a page layout programme. Available for Win32 and MacOS X. Free as in beer for personal use.

VivaDesigner http://www.vivadesigner.de

is available for download as a beta version, you need to register and then you will be emailed a valid licence key every 30 days.

Long-document and flexible wordprocessing tools

Adobe FrameMaker (Win32, MacOS X) http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/

Corel Ventura (Win32) http://www.corel.com

Papyrus Office (Win32, MacOS X) http://www.rom-logicware.com

OpenOffice.org Writer (Linux, Win32, Solaris, MacOS X) http://www.openoffice.org

TeX/LaTeX

• LaTeX
• MiKTeX

• Kile
• LyX
• TeXMacs
• TeXMaker

Flexible (hybrid vector/wp/DTP)

Cenon www.cenon.info Coded with GNUstep suite, this app available for Linux, Windows, MacOS X. General graphics and layout.

Stone Create www.stone.com Originally coded for NeXT and then migrated to MacOS X. Part of the Stone Studio suite. General graphics and layout (print and web)