The face that Scribus is free to use is the best part. I do very limited and simple desktop publishing so I don't need to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on a product I won't use very often. Setting up my sheet sizes and importing my logos/images are nice and easy. There are many different exporting options, including EPS which is great if I need to pull my creation into GIMP for editing.

It was a free substitute for Adobe Indesign. It got the job done without having to pay the monthly fee for the Adobe suite.

This free program can do pretty much anything InDesign can do. I have the CS4 f InDesign and have used it for years. I do a 25-page (60-70 color photos) monthly email PDF newsletter. I decided to switch when my desktop PC went into the shop for two weeks with a mysterious monitor blackout problem. InDesign can only be installed on 1 computer. A killer if you have to switch to your backup machine. I installed Scribus on my laptop and used creating a duplicate of my previous issue as a way to learn it. It is very different from InDesign and the learning curve is a little steep, but I have found that once you have it down it does anything I want, and it handles sizing photos better than InDesign. (Instead of Placing a photo you draw an image frame. Can set frame to image size or image to frame size. Very good idea.) . I now have it on both my PC and laptop, and keep a daily backup on an external hard drive that can be moved from one machine to another.