I want to echo the support for Prince here, even though it's not open-source it is a very useful piece of software. I create web-based art books at a museum[1],

I want to echo the support for Prince here, even though it's not open-source it is a very useful piece of software. I create web-based art books at a museum[1], and Prince has allowed us to generate high-quality PDFs[2] and even print-on-demand editions of the same book for very little additional effort. Full-bleed images, roman numeral page numbers, footnotes, multi-column text pages, all are possible through CSS. In a past life I was a print designer relying on Adobe software for everything, and it is tremendously liberating to be able to leave that world of vendor-lock-in behind (InDesign has a nasty habit of making each new version's files incompatible with previous ones). So compared to where I'm coming from, Prince (even as proprietary software) is a big step forward because it allows me to work in open formats. [1]: http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics [2][PDF, 8MB]: http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/assets/downloads/RomanMosaics_Belis.pdf http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/assets/downlo...