I was willing to pay large prices for software that I owned locally and that worked as long as the system it was installed on lived.

The absurd prices for subscriptions have finally pushed me to free alternatives for photoshop, premier, and acrobat (found here).

Is there a good open source version of indesign? I mean, I have VSCode configured to be a LaTeX editor, but I want a graphical typesetting program. Preferably feature stripped to be more like early pagemaker