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.
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makyo@lemmy.world 6 days agoStill haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
makyo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.
misericordiae@literature.cafe 6 days ago
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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
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.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 days ago
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.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I personally have replaced all my Adobe products with the much cheaper alternative of pirated Adobe products