A popular saying goes that advertising is the soul of business. That is why companies invest so much money in the production of brochures, catalogs, newsletters or magazines. To achieve these products you can go outside or internally using desktop publishing products such as MS Publisher, Xpress or InDesign.
But these are commercial applications. Is there a free alternative?
The answer is yes and it's called: Scribus.
This is an open source application available for all major operating systems.
With Scribus you can create business materials, flyers, posters, brochures or other documents that have a structured layout.
Some might argue that such documents can be created with a word processor. This is partly true but when the document to be implemented asked to intervene heavily directions on the document as a desktop publishing application Scribus is ideal.
Scribus works mainly for models: you can choose from a wide set of models to find the layout that suits us. The page you can insert text boxes, pictures, captions, tables, polygons, and even freehand drawings if you have a graphics tablet.
generated documents can be exported in various formats: PDF, SVG or image. The excellent print quality of documents created and guaranteed by the internal Postscript driver with support inside the font embedding, ie the possibility of characters in the document so that everyone can see it the same way on any PC.
Documents created by Scribus are also very light as it is based on XML and OpenDocument.
Scribus also can be driven by scripts using the Python language.
So if you need to create flyers, brochures, or why not, your own magazine, Scribus is the program that is right for you. Finally, if you want to have
Scribus always with you, there is also a portable version of this application.
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