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Answer  up vote 8 down vote accepted  A bit of overlap with what
I just answered here, and you can grab urls from there, but yep,
a Gimp and or Inkscape --> Scribus workflow might be ok. ( Edit:
or maybe just sk1 )  Actually done it? Yep. I indeed work with
mostly free and open source tools. No complaints :) In my
experience, you often have to use heavily your brain and create
your tricks to achieve certain industry demanded requirements
when the open source tool hasn't got yet this or that feature.
For this reason, the time factor is key to decide. If is needed
a very fast, stressful environment, no hassle workflow, very
demanding on features, (often is the typical graphic artist job)
imho only the best of the best commercial tools would keep it
totally safe. Still so, I prefer open source
workflows.(generally, not always. but often take the risk. Has
the big price of avoiding your