Until there are Linux equivalents, not just “clones,” of the Adobe toolchain in Linux, this is to be expected. You can hire professional designers and let them use the tools they need, or you can say “GIMP and Scribus only!” and turn out terrible looking publications because most designers won’t work with those tools.
Alternately, they could use LaTeX or troff and produce the sorts of documents that those tools are great at producing.
Until there are Linux equivalents, not just “clones,” of the Adobe toolchain in Linux, this is to be expected. You can hire professional designers and let them use the tools they need, or you can say “GIMP and Scribus only!” and turn out terrible looking publications because most designers won’t work with those tools.
Alternately, they could use LaTeX or troff and produce the sorts of documents that those tools are great at producing.
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