The Bucks Stop Here
In addition to the Indispensible stuff above: |
Passepartout (pronounced pus-par-too)
Exemplary straightforward gui, with phenomenal, unmatched "Inspiration" button. It is very important for software
to inspire the proper work ethic, and the Inspiration option does that admirably. | |
www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout
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TeX/LaTeX
The quintessential, very powerful layout engine. Works from text configuration files. | |
www.tug.org | |
Scribus
Capable DTP, though a bit slow for large, image heavy documents.
Extensive PDF abilities. What's missing is impositioning. | |
www.scribus.net
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Lyx
Kind of a graphical front end for TeX/LaTeX | |
www.lyx.org | |
OpenOffice.org
The Writer component is basically just a word processor, but frequently useful,
especially for dealing with MS Word documents. | |
openoffice.org
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Kword
Easy word processor, MUCH smaller than Openoffice. | |
www.koffice.org/kword
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Xara Xtreme
Vector graphics | |
www.xarax.com
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Sodipodi
Apparently no longer in active development, Inkscape basically supersedes it | |
sodipodi.sourceforge.net
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Psutils
Command line utilities to perform various things like booklet impositioning on postscript files | |
www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html
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Easypose
An imposition tool that works on PDF files. You can configure how a sheet of paper gets folded, by folding
it right on screen! This is an idea whose time has come! | |
easypose.sourceforge.net
or br.geocities.com/celsojr2005/easypose
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Formatpixel
Webtop publishing, if you can believe it! The free version gives you 512k and 1 project space. It
lets you lay out your own little zine booklet or pamphlet.
You can subscribe to have multiple projects and more storage space. Haven't used it, but it sure looks pretty neat!
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formatpixel.com
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minicomics
A new (March 2007) command line layout engine for making mini comics, which can generate PDF, html, and postscript,
all from a set of svg files. (you should know a little ruby
and rake) | |
minicomic.rubyforge.org
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