Top 15 Laidout Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Laidout is desktop publishing software, particularly for multipage, cut and folded booklets, with page sizes that don't even have to be rectangular. The whole page view can be rotated to any angle. Warping is implemented. Laidout exports to Postscript, PDF, PNG, SVG, SLA (Scribus, images and groups only) and PP (Passepartout, images and groups only).

1. Passepartout

Passepartout Passepartout is a desktop publishing system that is based on the idea of automatic typesetting of streams of XML based text documents.The project was started back in 2002 to facilitate a particular task — creating a newspaper. These days the project is somewhat dormant.......

2. LumaPix FotoFusion

LumaPix FotoFusion Enhanced edition designed for digital enthusiasts and scrapbookers with powerful tools to easily create senior portraits, scrapbooks, collages and more.Extreme edition designed for pro photographers & studios to create multi-page albums with both complete control and speed.Includes photo library organization, basic non-destructive editing and retouching capability (does not currently handle......

3. Bibliotech

Bibliotech Bibliotech is the Spotify for textbooks. It’s a web app providing students all the textbooks they need, at any time on any device for a small monthly fee. Our groundbreaking search engine returns definitions, diagrams and examples enabling students to learn and answer assessment questions faster than ever before.......

4. Bound

Bound Experience prose fiction on mobile from top authors via short episodes with in-depth companion material and integrated community features.We’ll resist the urge to make the big pitch and just share that we’re taking everything we’ve learned from games and applying it to prose fiction. We’ve designed a new user experience......

5. Swift Publisher

Swift Publisher Swift Publisher is an excellent Macintosh page layout application for designing and printing colorful flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads, booklets, etc. A great selection of templates inspires your creativity and a variety of editing tools lets you quickly apply it.......

6. Serif Pageplus

Serif Pageplus PagePlus is the easy to use, all-in-one solution for professional desktop publishing, creative design, full PDF editing and quality print work. The intuitive interface and high-end output makes it the ideal choice for anyone from home users to small businesses. Whether you want to create or edit a PDF, design......

7. Lulu

Lulu Lulu.com lets you make, self-publish, print and sell print-on-demand books, e-books, photo books and calendars with free book publishing.......

8. Microsoft Office Publisher

Microsoft Office Publisher Microsoft Publisher, part of the Microsoft Office Suite , helps you create, personalize, and share a wide range of publications and marketing materials in-house. New and improved capabilities guide you through the process of creating and distributing in print, Web, and e-mail so you can build your brand, manage......

9. RagTime

RagTime RagTime is both a traditional Office and DTP layout application. Like an office application, RagTime contains a powerful word processor, a sophisticated spreadsheet, and a tool for slide shows. It supports picture handling and creates business graphics. In addition, it offers CMYK separation, color management, support for spot colors, frame-based......

10. TeXmacs

TeXmacs GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses......

11. TeX Live

TeX Live TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software,......

12. QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress Computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them. The most recent version is QuarkXPress 8 and it allows publishing in......

13. Corel Ventura

Corel Ventura Corel Ventura is found primarily in business publishing and excels at long document publishing. XML Import, Publish to PDF, Table Tags, Prepress/Preflight options, and Bitmap effects were some of the enhancements to the software.......

14. Pubit

Pubit PubIt! titles can be purchased anywhere that Barnes & Noble NOOKbooks are sold and can be read on our NOOK devices and our popular NOOK apps for iPad™, iPhone™, Android™ smartphones and PC. Thousands of publishers and authors have already taken advantage of this unique opportunity to sell their books.Barnes......

15. Beyond Books

Beyond Books Beyond Books is a publishing platform that seamlessly integrates text, art and audio for a premier reading experience. Want to read in silence? Choose whether to listen to the high-quality narration, an instrumental score, or both. Simply enjoy the high-res illustrations and unobtrusive user interface designed to make reading accessible......