Adobe

Adobe InDesign

The publishing industry's toll booth. Your layouts are hostage to a proprietary format.

• Forced subscriptionYou rent it. Stop paying and you lose it.
• Lock-inProprietary formats or cloud storage that make leaving painful.

The exits

1. →

   DesignCraft

   by ArtCraft

   Page layout and publishing with threaded text frames, rebuilt in Rust.

   Status

   Alpha Early and moving fast. Try it, expect rough edges.

   License

   Apache-2.0

   Source

   github/storytold/designcraft ↗

   Get DesignCraft ↗View source ↗
2. →

   Scribus

   Professional desktop publishing with CMYK, spot colors and PDF/X output.

   Status

   Stable Mature and ready for daily work.

   License

   GPL-2.0+

   Source

   github/scribusproject/scribus ↗

   Get Scribus ↗View source ↗

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