I have a large number of photos edited and ready to go and want to then them into an album. Does anyone have any recommendations for any FOSS software that I can use to arrange the images to pages, and add text?

I intend to send the data to a professional printer for printing and binding.

My first thought was Libre Office’s Draw, but maybe this community has something more appropriate.

  • @[email protected]OP
    2•7 months ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, I started looking into LaTeX during my studies but never went through with learning it. Others have suggested Scribus, is there a reason why you might opt for LaTeX over that for this case?

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 months ago

      I haven’t worked with Scribus but I’ve heard good things about it, so I don’t think you’d be making a wrong choice by going with it. For this use case, the main reasons I can think of for why LaTeX would be preferable would be:

      • if you preferred working with it, or with a particular LaTeX tool
      • if you want to learn one tool or the other
      • if being able to write a script to create the output is something you want to do and the equivalent is not possible in Scribus