The philosophy behind dtpblender

A few words from dtpblender's creator:

"To bring it to the point: DTPBlender mainly addresses practical, quick workflow issues rather than professional output. So far, I’ve been in the lucky position that this output was always good enough for me.

I like using DTPBlender as an incredibly fast and versatile “Sketchpad” which - at least for someone who takes the time to get used to the user interface - is unrivalled by any other application I know of. I’ve worked with Scribus, Inkscape, Flash, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Freehand, and I couldn’t express my ideas nearly as fast with any of them.

If nothing else, DTPBlender can be this “Sketchpad” for quickly gathering your layout ideas, and then you can still use this as a reference when recreating the "final master” in a “professional” DTP app.

Actually, I’ve considered doing it this way, and it has already happened. For example, I once needed to make a design which was to be a giant sticker. Obviously, actual foil needed to be cut, so this demanded vectors. I developed the coarse layout idea in DTPBlender fast, and then recreated it for vector/CMYK output in Scribus."