Similar Programs

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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

QuarkXPress http://www.quark.com/
Major player
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.
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.
Passepartout http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
Open Source using GTK+ in a very early stage.

Long-document and flexible wordprocessing tools

Adobe FrameMaker http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/
OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

TeX/LaTeX

Flexible (hybrid vector/wp/DTP)

Corel Draw