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Scribus (/ ˈ s k r aɪ b ə s /) is free and open-source desktop publishing (DTP) software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment.
The following is a list of major desktop publishing software. For comparisons between the desktop publishing software, such as operating system or cloud support, licensing, and other features, see Comparison of desktop publishing software.
QuarkXPress 8.01 (2008) – Spellchecker enhancements; QuarkXPress 8.02 (2009) – Five new languages and new Pantone libraries. QuarkXPress 8.1 (2009) – Numerical scale, native transparency and layers in PDF, improved spell checker and other feature improvements. Supports Snow Leopard and Windows 7. QuarkXPress 8.12 (2009) – Bug-fix release.
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software application produced by Adobe and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books and ebooks. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe ...
Software packages that can be used to design single pages can often be used to design entire printed sheets, sometimes by a process as simple as copy/paste onto a larger sheet. This is still in use, especially for low volumes of work, but a popular alternative is an imposition function built in, or added in, to the design tool.
In graphic design, page layout is the arrangement of visual elements on a page. It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives. [1] The high-level page layout involves deciding on the overall arrangement of text and images, and possibly on the size or shape of the medium.
Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.
The box cover for the InDesign 2 upgrade from PageMaker. This software was the successor to PageMaker. Development of PageMaker had flagged in the later years at Aldus and, by 1998, PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market [17] to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996.