I'm starting to deal with some desktop publishing requests (a yearbook for Urban), and i've turned to Scribus. It's come a long way since i first tried it out, which i think was only about a year ago.

I need to learn more about it, because there are some things (such as auto-aligning elements or binding them into groups for aggregate manipulation) which i'm pretty sure you can do, but i don't know how yet. it appears to have good ability to import from Inkscape, as well. Nice to see that kind of interaction between projects.

So much more to learn...