If professional desktop publishing software is out of reach, Scribus is certainly worth a look. As open source software it can be downloaded and used for no charge.

The weakest point of Scribus compared to more expensive alternatives is that there is only a handful of templates supplied with Scribus. But the editing options are just as powerful as the competition. It can open documents from OpenOffice Draw but not Microsoft Publisher. Finished projects can be printed or saved as PDF files.

Help is provided in the form of online documentation (well above average) and a user wiki.

Scribus is supplied with most Linux distributions but there are downloads for this operating system as well as MacOS X and OS/2 . It is also strongly recommended that Ghostscript is installed before Scribus.