[geff82]

Libreoffice Draw is an often overlooked application that I've been using for years to create one-page/two-page designed documents. It has become quite powerful over the years.

Also, you might want to have a look at the open source "Scribus". I never liked it too much, but it gets a lot of jobs done.

[exceptione]

Scribus is on a whole different level as a direct competitor Adobe Indesign. Scribus is for professional dtp.

[VladStanimir]

I think Scribus was mentioned as an alternative to MS Publisher.

[exceptione]

Scribus and Indesign are for professionals. MS Publisher is not.

Yes, Scribus could do anything Publisher can as it provides a superset of features compared to the latter. But I think it would be confusing for people that don't understand color profiles, offset press and all the relevant stuff professionals care about. The bells and whistles are there for a reason.