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

Pure DTP/Page layout

Adobe InDesign (Win32, MacOS X) http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/

Major player

Adobe PageMaker (Win32, MacOS X) http://www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker/

Largely deprecated in favour of InDesign.

Apple Pages (MacOS X) http://www.apple.com/au/iwork/pages/

Newly introduced for enduser and part of the iWork package.

Deneba Canvas (Win32, MacOS X) http://www.deneba.com/

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

invers Calamus (Win32, MacOS 7 - 9, MacOS X, Atari ST) http://www.calamus.net/

Page layout software originally developed for Atari ST, but still in development and for sale. Very strange UI.

Microsoft Publisher http://www.microsoft.com

An extension to MS Office. Sold as an easy-to-use DTP software, but generally considered a bad joke in DTP business.

QuarkXPress (Win32, MacOS X) 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 (Win32, MacOS X) http://www.ragtime-online.com/

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

VivaDesigner (Linux, Win32, MacOS X) 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

• NOTE - Scribus has support for importing OpenOffice.org Draw and Writer format:
  • please see this page at the official documentation site for more detail.
  • also check out this article for the preparing the Writer document to be imported

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.

deneba Canvas see above

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)