One Shot Design

Want to quickly create folding double-sided leaflets? Try putting it together with Scribus, a very promising and powerful desktop publishing tool

Scribus’ interface is rather similar to that of long-established Quark Xpress and Adobe PageMaker. It can import mainstream Bitmaps formats, as well as .TXT, .SVG, .EPS and OpenOffice Draw.
Scribus allows to apply individual text formattings, which can be individually edited to change the look of a long document.
It conveniently exports in Adobe’s .EPS and .PDF formats, the latter being perfectly readable by Adobe’s Acrobat Reader, but not opening perfectly in Illustrator.

Pros:

• Open Source: no licensing fee.
• Cross-platform: available for Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux operating systems.
• Imports .EPS and mainstream Bitmap formats.
• Exports in EPS.

Cons:

• the native formats lacks backwards compatibility between the 1.2 and 1.3 versions tested.
• Lack of import filter for Adobe .AI and .PDF formats.
• PDF export filters are perfectible.
• Precompiled binary 1.3 version for Windows somehow unstable. But is the blame to put on Microsoft or the source files?

I give it a three stars, the interface is a bit slow at times.