Don’t have the budget for QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, or Microsoft Publisher? Check out Serif PagePlus SE! Its a back-level version of their commercial PagePlus X3, but is an outstanding application that is very easy to use and loaded with templates. The free SE version unfortunately is only available on Windows and won’t run under vista. This is the only program I truly miss since migrating to Vista earlier this year.
If you need to run on Linux, MAC OS, or Vista and want the advanced features and commercial output formats and are willing to trade off the steeper learning curve check out Scribus. The documentation is great but it will take some time to master. You also need to use GIMP or something like it for editing graphics, GIMP is an open source alternative to PhotoShop/PaintShopPro but that is a find for another day.
