
It is also possible to select a default measuring unit, manually set up page margins or to choose preset margins and more. Additionally, the software places numerous page formats at your disposal, from A1 to C9 and many others and it allows you to customize your own height and width as well. When creating a new project, you can choose a general layout, like single page, double sided, three-fold and so on. What's more, the software is distributed free of charge and it is cross-platform, so you can use it on multiple operating systems, including Mac OS X. Scribus gives you complete freedom to lay out your pages however you want, without getting in your way with annoying automated features, like auto-correct or automatic paragraph alignment.

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If you need to arrange text, images and other contents on several pages, then you should look for a specialized publishing application.

Creating a newspaper or magazine layout with a conventional word processor is what an amateur would do.
