The most important thing for publishers is to have a professional and user-friendly layout design tool to make their work more efficient. There are many page layout design programs, but few of them are professional, easy-to-use or efficient. Thereinto, Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing edge tool for Windows and Mac platforms, developed by Serif Europe from United Kingdom in 2019. Compared to the popular Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, it not only has everything a professional-grade desktop publishing tool should include, but it's also easier to use and runs more smoothly.

Adobe FrameMaker is a very excellent desktop publishing software (essentially a document processor) that is very good at writing and editing various types of large or complex documents, as well as structured documents. It was originally developed by Frame Technology Corporation, which was later acquired by Adobe Systems and became one member product of Adobe series in 1995.

QuarkXPress is the world's most widely used and advanced publishing software for all kinds of publishers in the professional print and digital production industry. Its achievements in terms of print design almost the same as Adobe PhotoShop's in the field of graphic design. BTW, it has 30 years of history.