InDesign/Quark XPress/Publisher - Alternatives
Microsoft project is a software for formating and printing project plan usually used by project managers for business and managing budgets. Comparatively to Microsoft project , Indesign , Quark Xpress are the common software used by office designers for building up and publishing project.
Nowadays there are free desktop publishing applications as alternatives above described software. Below are two software bearing the same application :-
Scribus Freware
Website:
http://www.scribus.net/
Pageplus SE
Website:
http://www.serif.com/pageplus/pageplusx3/