Pricing
You can use the free version to get started, or for as long as you want. The paid version has more features and options.
- Basic features you need to make a zine or book layout
- Export full print files
- Intended for artists with a simple print-practice, small press publishers, and small print shops
- Everything in the free edition
- More imposition layouts
- Sections / signatures
- Special page counts
- Overview sheets
The free community edition is not a trial; you don’t have to enter your payment details, it doesn’t watermark your files, limit the number of pages you can process, serve you third-party ads, etc. It has what you need to make publications, it just has fewer features than the paid license version does.
The paid license is a one-time purchase, which includes 1 seat, with 1 year of updates. After your year is over, you may keep using the last version of Layout Department that you downloaded — without updates going forward — as long as your computer’s operating system is able to run the archival version of the app and you maintain your copy of it. (To get future updates, you can purchase another year of the paid license if you’d like to, but it is not required, nor it is a subscription product.)
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