[free-sklyarov] Some Adobe substitutes
Michael C. Smith
maxomai at aracnet.com
Thu Jul 19 15:53:47 PDT 2001
Here's a list of sites for some Adobe substitutes:
The GIMP: a full-blown graphics editing program released under
the General Public License. GIMP graphics tend to have a distinctive
look (that I like).
http://www.gimp.org/
TeX: Industrial strength publishing software (think math books).
Output formats include dvi, pdf(!!) and html. There's a whole mess of
web pages on the software available at
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Desktop_Publishing/TeX/
The TeX users group web page can be found at
http://www.tug.org/ ... lots of handly links here.
xpdf is a PDF reader for the X Windowing System. Experimental
versions exist for DOS/Windows.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
There's probably more out there...please let us know if
you know of more.
Mike Smith
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:26:12PM -0400, Charles L. Jackson wrote:
> Someone asked:
> Secondly, does it make sense to include links to open-source
> products
> that do the same things that Adobe's products do? (e.g., xpdf,
> LaTeX,
> GIMP, etc.) I know not all of these are necessarily up to Adobe's
> level of quality (at least for what graphic design people need), but
> it could help put the economic pressure on Adobe wrt home users.
>
> This is one of the strongest things we can do. I think those links
> should be posted and people should be encouraged to post materials using
> alternate products.
>
> The other thing would be to encourage those in the open-source community to
> develope better PDF substitutes.
>
>
> Chuck
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