Free or Low Cost Desktop Publishing Software

Arts & Letters  comes in 2 versions: Express and Home/School Edition. The Express version offers ease of use, and professional quality vector drawing and illustration programs. Combines freehand drawing, clip art and fonts. The Home/School Edition provides less experienced computer users with the power and productivity of Arts & Letters EXPRESS at less of a price. Ideal for teaching students page layout, graphical design, perspective and the use of color.

CreataCard  is card creation software for the PC. Creativity center enables families to conveniently make and deliver personalized greeting cards, as well as new and more project types with easy-to-use drawing and editing tools and a choice of more delivery options.

Desktop Publisher Pro  provides users with far more control over the appearance of text than ordinary word processors. Desktop Publisher Pro lets you tinker and tweak text, plus create headlines and special effects. Bezier Text Tool, Object Tools to create lines, curves, circles, squares, and round-cornered rectangles, Speech Balloons, Star Tool and more.

eBook Pack Express  turns you information into eBooks, ezines, booklets, catalogs and/or multimedia presentations.

  formatpixel online publishing tool  is a website that allows limited desktop publishing capabilities online. You can create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customize their appearance. Edit the order of pages in your projects by moving, inserting or deleting pages to create multi-page presentations. There are a few levels of service .. but what they call the basic Vanilla service (512k project) is free.

Impression Lite  is a PC application that integrates many drawing and DTP features. Allows you to create professional looking publications without switching between different applications.

Microsoft Publisher  includes new and improved tools that help you efficiently create, customize, and reuse a wide variety of marketing communications materials that are tailored to your company's specific needs. Choose from a library of hundreds of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, Web sites, e-mail formats, and more. Offers dynamic previews of templates with your brand elements applied — including your colors, fonts, logo, and business information — before choosing a template. Search tool quickly locates and previews Publisher from Microsoft Office Online right within the Publisher Catalog.

MultiAd Creator Desktop  builds professional quality layouts without the expense or complexity of professional desktop publishing software. Creator Desktop is easy to learn, simple to use, yet delivers results in professional file formats (PDF and EPS). Typical users include retailers, independent designers, educational users and home office users. MultiAd Creator Desktop can be customized with a private label, templates and other content for distribution to customers.

PageFocus Pro  is an electronic form and application builder. It consists of a form and document editor, and a runtime EXPO (form filler) program that incorporates a simple database engine for managing database. Work with Ghostscript to export to PDF file format or import PDF pages.

  PagePlus SE  offers Automated Templates for many different types of documents, making it simple to achieve results every time. PagePlus SE gives you a wide range of preset document layouts. Choose from greetings cards, booklets, banners, posters and more. Also offers, Table Tool, QuickShapes, Spell Checker, Artistic Text, Page Manager, Graphics Inline With Text, Multiple Master Pages.

PageStream  is a full featured desktop publishing/page layout program for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. Creates newsletters, company perspectives, multi-volume product documentation, invitations, full color brochures, business cards and more. PageStream can be used to set type, draw objects, and place graphics. It has precise typography, professional printing, and a rich assortment of features.

Print Artist  create anything from a greeting card, scrapbook, business stationery, or even a gift bag in minutes. Choose from more than 1,500 layouts along with more than 10,000 graphics. Simple to use for the new user.

PrintingPress  is software designed primarily for printing invitations, announcements, etc. PrintingPress is easy to use, works with any stationery, includes fonts & graphics .. and makes it easy to address envelopes, and add any photo or graphic to your project. The software is pre configured for standard stationery sizes and includes many samples based on different events. The software is also available in a few different versions.

Print Designer Gold  Label Software, Business Card Software and more. Create business cards, mailing labels, envelopes, post cards, CD Labels, DVD labels, signs and more. Includes support for Text, CSV, Excel, Access, DBase, Paradox and many other databases, plus can read Outlook contacts directly.

  Scribus  is a FREE open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. There is also a review of Scribus HERE.

Serif PagePlus X2  is simple for anyone to create, publish and share their designs as printed documents, PDFs, websites and emails. PagePlus X2 offers a host of new Windows Vista-related features, including Live Searching and Document Previews, works with XP as well.