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I assume organisations that need such complex layout also have a budget to pull together immersive HTML pages, infographic design or comprehensive reports. For instance the WHO has some pretty complex and visually pleasing reports; they seem to be using InDesign and I'm sure they use actual designers and researchers to produce them.

I like the idea of using open-source tools to create books and documentation because you could incorporate the process into a workflow that pulls in actual code or on-the-fly generated graphics. I don't own any commercial software, so I don't know how feasable that process would be with something like InDesign.

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> I assume organisations that need such complex layout also have a budget to pull together immersive HTML pages

You'd be surprised

> For instance the WHO has some pretty complex and visually pleasing reports; they seem to be using InDesign and I'm sure they use actual designers and researchers to produce them.

That workflow works for once-a-quarter, or maybe once-a-year books. When you need to crank out 3-4 books a week and go through 50 versions in 10 days, InDesign is just too slow, so we resort to PowerPoint