{"id":2991,"date":"2019-07-05T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:12:52","slug":"scribus-vs-adobe-indesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/scribus-vs-adobe-indesign\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribus Vs. Adobe InDesign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The information in this article is designed to inform users interested in purchasing Adobe InDesign of a potential free alternative.\u00a0 Adobe InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud now, and involves annual licensing costs that turn most folks off (<a href=\"https:\/\/ramtech.colostate.edu\/sample-page\/department-software-page\/#adobecc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ramtech.colostate.edu\/sample-page\/department-software-page\/#adobecc<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scribus is a free and open source page layout program and is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribus.net\">https:\/\/www.scribus.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the same vein as the recent article comparing GIMP and Adobe Photoshop (<a href=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/gimp-vs-adobe-photoshop\">https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/gimp-vs-adobe-photoshop<\/a>), I don\u2019t use InDesign myself, and therefore am a poor source for determining whether this is a good alternative or not.&nbsp; However, there are plenty of comparisons and demos online from folks that actually do use this stuff.&nbsp; Check out the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2018\/05\/12\/a-look-at-scribus-open-source-desktop-publisher-on-gnu-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2018\/05\/12\/a-look-at-scribus-open-source-desktop-publisher-on-gnu-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scribus Demo | Free Desktop Publishing (Adobe Indesign Alternative)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8kOET_zxJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The information in this article is designed to inform users interested in purchasing Adobe InDesign of a potential free alternative.\u00a0 Adobe InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud now, and involves annual licensing costs that turn most folks off (https:\/\/ramtech.colostate.edu\/sample-page\/department-software-page\/#adobecc). Scribus is a free and open source page layout program and is available here: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-cnsit","category-knowledge-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}