Document preparation with free software

This page is for preparing a document that satisfies the #9420 request for information on what pieces of the Linux Graphics puzzle to use in a document preparation workflow.

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This is a small collection of free stuff to use for print production. Full professional roadmap is connected with CMYK color mode, and in reality its much harder to do it than simply RGB. So if You dont really need working with CMYK dont do it :) . Scribus generate always good CMYK PDF even if in source is RGB bitmap.

Use links to get more advice about items.

	Major Software	Color mode	If used	Minor Software	Extension
VECTORS	Inkscape	RGB	Filters		PNG	Scribus
			No filters		SVG PNG
		CMYK	Filters	OutputPro	JPG
			No filters		SVG
RASTER	GIMP	RGB			TIFF JPG
		CMYK		CMYK Tool	TIFF JPG
TEXT	LibreOffice				ODT