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Laidout Frequently Asked Questions

For help on how to use Laidout and descriptions of various deficiencies of Laidout, please click here. Also look at the Screenshots page, where each screenshot has an accompanying description of what is going on. Please also post any questions, comments, or other problems to the general Laidout mailing list.

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Laidout doesn't do what I want! What's up with that?

The huge development team, currently consisting of one (1) person, me, Tom Lechner, can only type so fast! You are more than welcome to post critiques on the Laidout mailing list, flame Laidout in your own personal blog, or get involved with development. Also, you might consult the current Features page, the development Roadmap and also the software comparison page. Just remember that time wounds all heels, er, that is, heals all wounds.

Under what license is Laidout released?

It is released under the GPL 2.0.

How can I get involved?

Trying to make things with Laidout is a good start! Please post any comments you have on the Laidout mailing list. If you find something that crashes the program or otherwise seems like a bug, try to isolate it and either post to the mailing list, or file a bug report on the bug tracker. If you want to be more directly involved in coding, see this page. You can also donate money, which is always a nice bonus.

So why don't you just use software that is programmed better?

As a starving artist when I first started programming Laidout way back when, I needed a program to help me lay out my cartoon books. This means fast and easy placement of images on the page, being able to quickly move images between pages, being able to rearrange page order quickly, and being able to arrange pages in various impositions, or signatures. The very basics to get my cartoon books done, in other words. No other program within my tax bracket filled those needs better than scribbling layout diagrams on paper, then cutting, pasting, and whiteout-ing photocopies. Hence, Laidout. Whether Laidout actually lives up to that hype is on open question, but as of 2010, it is still better for what I do than any program out there.