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



Revision as of 00:29, 14 August 2005

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 (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.
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


TeX/LaTeX

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)


PDF/PS tools