What is ICalamus?
iCalamus is an open source desktop publishing application designed for Linux and iOS operating systems. It specializes in layout, typesetting, editing, and design of long and structured documents such as books, manuals, reports, magazines, and scientific publications.
Some key features of iCalamus include:
- Advanced typography and typesetting capabilities for professional document layout and design.
- Multi-column page layouts with facing pages support.
- Support for complex structures like tables, floating images/frames, footnotes, margins, headers/footers, etc.
- Import and export of multiple document formats including PDF, PostScript, SVG, HTML, ePub, etc.
- Scriptable components for automation of repetitive tasks.
- An intuitive graphical user interface with drag and drop functionality.
- Built specifically for Linux with official support for Ubuntu.
- A commercial iOS version also available.
With its professional tools tailored for editorial workflow, iCalamus serves as a great open source alternative for Adobe InDesign on Linux platforms. The software is licensed under GPL and available for free download.
Adobe InDesign, Scribus, Swift Publisher, QuarkXPress, PageStream, 365Layouts.com, Marq, Adobe FrameMaker, Laidout, VivaDesigner, RagTime are some alternatives to ICalamus.