Adobe InDesign Alternatives and Similar Software

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Scribus

Open Source by Scribus |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create...

Photos & Graphics publishing, desktop-publishing, poster, publisher
+5 more newsletters, brochures, pdf-presentations, newspapers, create-pdf-presentations
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Microsoft Office - Publisher

Commercial by Microsoft |
Windows

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Publisher, part of the Microsoft Office suite, helps you create, personalize, and share a wide range of publications and marketing materials in-house. New and improved capabilities guide you through the...

News & Books, Photos & Graphics publishing, books, marketing, printing
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Serif Pageplus

Free* by Serif |
Windows

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PagePlus is the easy to use, all-in-one solution for professional desktop publishing, creative design, full PDF editing and quality print work. The intuitive interface and high-end output makes it the ideal...

Photos & Graphics publishing, dtp, page-layout
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QuarkXPress

Commercial by Quark, Inc. |
Mac, Windows

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Computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by...

Photos & Graphics publishing, dtp, indesign
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Adobe FrameMaker

Commercial by Adobe |
Windows

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A desktop publishing (DTP) and word processing application that is popular for large documents.

Office & Productivity word-processing, dtp, desktop-publishing
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LumaPix FotoFusion

Commercial by LumaPix |
Mac, Windows

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Enhanced edition designed for digital enthusiasts and scrapbookers with powerful tools to easily create senior portraits, scrapbooks, collages and more. Extreme edition designed for pro photographers &...

Photos & Graphics photo-editing, publishing, photo-album, layout
+5 more photo-manager, dtp, photo-retouching, photo-library, photo-book
Project ROME

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This application has been discontinued. More info: The commercial version of Project ROME will remain free to the public via Adobe Labs. No additional Project ROME software updates are planned.
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Passepartout

Open Source by Rasmus & Fredrik |
Linux

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Passepartout is a desktop publishing system that is based on the idea of automatic typesetting of streams of XML based text documents.The project was started back in 2002 to facilitate a particular task —...

Photos & Graphics publishing, layout, dtp, newspaper, publisher
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formatpixel

Free* by formatpixel |
Online

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formatpixel enables you to make you own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more. Use the formatpixel editor and arrange the order of pages in your projects by moving, inserting...

Photos & Graphics design, publishing, brochures
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Swift Publisher

Commercial by BeLight Software |
Mac

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Swift Publisher is an excellent Macintosh page layout application for designing and printing colorful flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads, booklets, etc. A great selection of templates inspires your...

layout, page, brochures, flyers, letterheads, booklets
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SpringPublisher

Free* by SpringPublisher Team |
Windows

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SpringPublisher is a professional and easy to use desktop publishing software. With its included various templates and online template store, powerful multi-layer editor, detailed help-files, SpringPublisher...

Photos & Graphics design, publishing, business-cards, publisher
+3 more postcards, flyers, letterheads
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Corel Ventura

Commercial by Corel |
Windows

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Corel Ventura is found primarily in business publishing and excels at long document publishing. XML Import, Publish to PDF, Table Tags, Prepress/Preflight options, and Bitmap effects were some of the...

Photos & Graphics pdf, publishing, dtp, page-layout
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PageStream

Commercial by Grasshopper LLC |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Pagestream is a proprietary desktop publishing program for Linux, Windows, Macintosh, and Amiga. It was originally released under the name Publishing Partner in 1986.

dtp, newspaper, desktop-publishing, publisher
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iStudio Publisher

Commercial by c:four limited |
Mac

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iStudio Publisher, the new page layout and design application for Mac OS X has arrived. Produce professional looking magazines, brochures, adverts, reports, newsletters, greetings cards and many other types...

Photos & Graphics publishing, publisher
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Laidout

Open Source by Tom Lechner |
Linux

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Laidout is desktop publishing software, particularly for multipage, cut and folded booklets, with page sizes that don't even have to be rectangular. The whole page view can be rotated to any angle. Warping...

News & Books, Office & Productivity, Photos & Graphics calendar, publishing, books, layout, dtp, page, patch
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MultiAd Creator

Commercial by MultiAd, Inc. |
Mac, Windows

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MultiAd® Creator Professional version is the software for skilled layout artists. It combines premium page-layout capabilities with drawing, illustration and image manipulation tools. Newspaper production...

Photos & Graphics drawing, illustration, dtp, page-layout
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iCalamus

Commercial by invers Software |
Mac

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iCalamus is a multi-lingual, frame-oriented desktop publishing solution for Mac OS X.

dtp, publisher
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imPRESSion

Commercial by BNW Systems |
Windows

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imPRESSion and imPRESSion Lite are affordable desktop publishing applications that combine powerful vector graphics drawing with a range of text handling functions.

Photos & Graphics drawing, vector-graphics, dtp, desktop-publishing
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RagTime

Commercial by RagTime GmbH |
Mac, Windows

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RagTime is a desktop publishing computer program which combines typical features from office programs such as spreadsheet calculations and text processing with the rich layout capabilities of DTP (desktop...

Office & Productivity spreadsheet, layout, dtp, newspaper
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