It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.
It’s different and a tad clunky, but there are some things that were better when I switched. I’ve been off adobe for about 4 or 5 years now, so it may be not what you need or want. I think they have a free trial. But again, that one time cost may switch to subscription after this release, Canva is known to be enshittifiers.
If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.
Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on
I personally have replaced all my Adobe products with the much cheaper alternative of pirated Adobe products
Affinity has one that’s just as good, but as I said in another comment, I’m not sure how long that will last since they were bought by Canva.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/
I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.
It’s not there if you’re trying to do professional printing: I still see people complaining about messed up color profiles, exporting, etc. Otherwise, I’ve found it fairly ok, although pelespirit’s right about the clunk here and there.
It’s different and a tad clunky, but there are some things that were better when I switched. I’ve been off adobe for about 4 or 5 years now, so it may be not what you need or want. I think they have a free trial. But again, that one time cost may switch to subscription after this release, Canva is known to be enshittifiers.
I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net
If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.