Newsletter design-friendly features include the ability to link text boxes together (to flow text from one page to another), spellcheck, and dozens of photo cropping shapes. The fun features that dress up a newsletter design include the photo editor, thousands of graphics, and text effects. The Print Shop is available in both Deluxe and Professional variations. The Professional version contains extras, such as royalty-free images and templates that you can use for business. Scribus is a good choice if you need professional printing. However, it doesn’t have all the fun extras like graphics, fonts, and tons of templates. Scribus offers CMYK support, font embedding and sub-setting, PDF creation, EPS import and export, basic drawing tools, and other professional-level features. It works similar to Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress with text frames, floating palettes, and pull-down menus. All without the hefty price tag. When you install LibreOffice, you get Draw along with other office programs, including a word processor and slideshow program that make fantastic replacements for Word and PowerPoint. LibreOffice is geared toward graphical office work, including charts and diagrams. Still, it’s more than capable of quickly and easily creating newsletters. There are several free newsletter templates available for Draw. Like other cloud software, Lucidpress is accessible anywhere, and your work is saved online. The interface is geared toward simplicity, but this is a powerful program. It intuitively empowers you to create some seriously fantastic newsletters.
