If you’ve been trying out software that doesn’t cost a penny, you’ve probably downloaded and installed Open Office. While very capable at what it does, it’ll be a little limiting for more desk top publishing (DTP) duties.

Enter Scribus, an open source DTP app, that has just been updated. It can now open more file formats and handles colour palettes better.

The big thing for me was the ability to import Adobe Illustrator .eps files. Having used sites like VectorStock for graphics, my biggest challenge was finding software to edit them with that suit my budget better than Illustrator.

Sadly the import of the first free eps on VectorStock didn’t go perfectly. I’m probably going to stick with Xara Xtreme (review of Xtreme 4, review of 5 coming soon) for eps editing for the moment, but the open source community does tend to keep improving features so hopefully it’ll

A full list of new features can be found here.