I also figured that this would be a better test of the program’s real-world performance than a brochure or other document with relatively few separate elements. Although Scribus does have the capability to create tables, this particular diagram was so complex that I decided to create it from scratch. The document you see there is a Montessori elementary curriculum outline that I transcribed from a hand-written original for my wife.
Here you see Scribus 1.3.7, as it appears on the 10.1″ screen of my HP Mini 5103. And, of course, you can’t beat the price … Scribus is available free of charge for Mac, Windows and Linux systems. It lacks the fit and finish of its commercial brethren Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign, particularly in the areas of precision and flexibility, but overall it’s an exceptionally impressive piece of software. It is a full-featured page layout program capable of handling anything from a business card design to a lengthy, hyperlink-filled, interactive PDF publication. Yes, Scribus is the open-source InDesign. I’ll kill the suspense by answering the title question right now.
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