i'm going to create a Catalog for one of our proposals... as i've recently migrated to Ubuntu, i don't know tools to do such a job. In windows i might do this with MS PowerPoint or Adobe InDesign. here i just know OpenOffice Presentation.
I wanna create a simple and official catalog. and i want to have a wast range of available free templates to choose among.
what's the best tool to create a fast, well-looking PDF catalog?
Scribus
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There is a wiki made by the Documentation Team Brazil - http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/DTPnoUbuntu