Links
Here are some links to other programs useful, in one way or another, for desktop publishing sorts of tasks. The Inkscape and Scribus sites in particular both have many useful links to such things, and lively and informative discussion lists and wikis.Indispensible Artsy Software | ||
| The Gimp | www.gimp.org | |
| Inkscape | www.inkscape.org | |
| Imagemagick Utilities | www.imagemagick.org | |
The Big Bucks | ||
| Adobe InDesign | www.adobe.com/products/indesign/ | |
| Adobe Pagemaker | www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker/ | |
| Adobe Freehand (formerly Macromedia Freehand, formerly Aldus) | www.adobe.com/products/freehand | |
| So-Far-Not-Adobe QuarkXPress | www.quark.com/products/xpress/ | |
| Ovation Pro | pilling.users.netlink.co.uk/ovationpro.html | |
The Small Bucks | ||
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PageStream Has existed since 1985, runs on even Amigas and Atari!! | www.grasshopperllc.com | |
The Bucks Stop HereIn 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Kword Easy word processor, MUCH smaller than Openoffice. | www.koffice.org/kword | ||
| Xara Xtreme Vector graphics | www.xarax.com | ||
| Sodipodi Apparently no longer in active development, Inkscape basically supersedes it | sodipodi.sourceforge.net | ||
| Psutils Command line utilities to perform various things like booklet impositioning on postscript files | www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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! | formatpixel.com | ||
| 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 | ||
Other Links
Here are lots of links for Linux based artists, compiled by Tom Lechner:www.tomlechner.com/computer
Here are lots of links from the Laxkit for various specifications and programming libraries:
laxkit.sourceforge.net/links.html
Here's lots of links to various art related software in an Ubuntu forum. The software listed there have been placed into this wiki (artlinux.wetpaint.com), maybe it's just me, but that wiki seems a bit slow (and requires cookies just to open the page for viewing?!).