What's a good software for leaflet design?

[AwayGamesTravel]

What's a good software for leaflet design?

Anyone know?

Also, the software should be mass printing friendly.

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

InDesign is groovy

 

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[cgwpublishing]

I use a piece of wonderful open source software called Scribus. I use it for everything that needs layout - leaflets, business cards, postcards and even book covers for published books (cgwpublishing.com)

It produces print ready PDFs that you send off to your local printer or somewhere like Vistaprint.

Best of all, it's free.

If you want to pay someone else to do it but you don't want to pay huge agency prices, post a job on Elance. There are alternatives; ODesk, People Per Hour, Freelancers.net, but the quality of people on those is generally not good because the quality of jobs isn't good. Elance is definitely the best for what you're looking for. Or, as I said, Scribus for a DIY solution.

 

[Minuteman Press]

InDesign or CorelDraw.

 

[genuinegraphics]

Download the Photoshop trial and use the online tutorials to help you out OR another software that's free and pretty good would be GIMP >> http://www.gimp.org/

Again just have a look at tutorials for using GIMP and you'll be alright.

 

[BustersDogs]

I use Scribus as well. I used to use Serifplus which I really liked, then for some reason it crashed and I couldn't reinstall.

I don't find Scribus easy to use, but only create one newsletter every few months. I've just created some flyers and used Word in preference to Scribus!

 

[neildigital]

Any software that can produce a good pdf, which is what most printers would be grateful for.

The software most have the ability to produce the pdf with 3-5mm bleed and in CMYK.

Indesign or Quarkxpress are the industry choices..

Need any other details for the setup of the job, check out:
http://www.scubaprint.com/artwork/

Neil

 

[cgwpublishing]

Just a quick comment on the usability of Scribus; page layout programs are a bit complex to master, I have tried InDesign and Quark too, and I found Scribus very easy to use after 'breaking myself in' with Quark a few years ago. Once you get the hang of page layout being fundamentally different to formatting in a word processor, it becomes very intuitive. GIMP is good for image manipulation, but you can't realistically do layout in it for two reasons; firstly, it's very difficult to do the precise alignment of elements that you can do easily in a layout program, and secondly, because you are working with images, to make the file big enough to be able to print from, you're always working from a huge file which is extremely slow. With a layout program, you manipulate low resolution copies, text blocks etc, and the program only produces the print ready file when you're ready. For example, if I take a typical book cover, the Scribus file is 36kb and the print ready PDF is 5.6Mb. Even Word files aren't as small as the Scribus file!

My concern with programs like InDesign and Quark is that they are very expensive because they are work tools, aimed at graphics studios, and I just don't like paying all that money for software. Rather than break any license agreements, open source software is a much better alternative. Believe it or not, it is generally more actively developed and better supported than commercial software.