Best software for making pamphlets

Dunno about free software but Adobe Indesign is pretty good. CS2 has a feature (called InBooklet I think) which reorders the pages so that it photocopies correctly.

Yeah, I'd go with Indesign to be honest. You could use Publisher by Microsoft or something like that, but if you ever intended to get something professionally printed you are best off starting with a programme that you can use. You should download the trial edition of Indesign from the Adobe site and then find a keygen on line to crack it and make it permanent.

Publisher is trash, don't go near it.

I'll third the InDesign reccomendation - otherwise, if it's going to be really short (prob less than 10 leaves) you can use Macromedia Freehand, which is decent, but for anything larger I'd stick with InDesign.

I work at a print shop and we're getting a digital printer that automatically collates and staples booklets.
The graphic artist and me are best buds, so I'm gonna have a lot of fun when the boss isnt around.

I always use Publisher. It's easy. For most pamphlets you don't need anything fancy. Just text and pictures, clearly separated.

I use publisher, cos its the first software I got a pirate version of and taught myself to use. I wanna learn how to use summat else though. Sick of the hassle of having to convert it to pagemaker and then pdf. Think I'll check out Indesign.

Boul - why do you have to convert it to pagemaker. Just turn it into a pdf through the print command. There's loads of free software to make pdfs. They integrate into Office. Or torrent a full copy of acrobat, which does the same and lets you edit pdfs too.

Yeah what Knightrose said. I use publisher all the time for wee jobs. (Have Quark sitting on a CD somewhere, but it's a bastard for smaller jobs) You would need to do that as well with Quark. Primopdf works fine for this.

I use Scribus which is good for leaflets and what not. It's free too.
http://www.scribus.net/

I tried Scribus and i found it overwhelmingly confusing. I'm pretty good at design and software, so I would say it's not for feint of heart.

I would however recommend another Open Source package, OpenOffice.org (available at that address). It's a fully-featured office suite and about 1000x better than M$ Word if you ask me. You know all that annoying shit MSWord does? Reformats stuff, the paperclip, etc? OO has none of that and it works perfectly.

I think there are templates for various types of brochures available on their website, but I can send you what I've done if you'd like examples about how to do stuff.

I am looking at making a guide for wobs (and anyone else) about how to do layout in OO. It's on the backburner until I figure out how to distribute it though.

Open Office is fucking wicked indeed. Built in export-to-PDF function too

QuarkXpress pisses on everything else.

Bog standard microsoft word, any old word processer or typewriter - reduce to A5 - fold and staple mate - never mind the quality, feel the width!