OpenSource Alternatives to Adobe InDesign? (also workflows in Inkscape or GIMP)
A person learned their entire apprenticeship on proprietary Adobe Software.
Mainly InDesign for Layouts, flyers, posters etc.
I would assume that this can be done with Inkscape just fine but they are fully in the “one software for one task” mindset (that Adobe heavily drives).
Anyone have an open source or at least free or one-time-payment alternative for this?
#Scribus didn’t look that well maintained and pretty dated.
Maybe #Affinity Publisher?
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For anything with a decent amount of text, I would use Scribus over Inkscape.
I’ve used Scribus quite a bit. It definitely feels dated, but still works great. And it has features for things like non-rectangular text areas, and it does stuff like color indexing which makes it easy to change colors easily late in the design process. It is a bit clunky to work with though.
Another option is LibreOffice Draw. I mostly use it for editing PDFs, but it likely has lots of the same features.