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The software programs listed below are designed to run on the Windows operating system. They all include standard Windows installation, so if you are comfortable installing programs on your Windows PC then installing these programs will be easy.
This is just a small sample of the thousands of free, high quality open source programs available today.
Open Office 2.4 76.5 megabytes
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Open Office offers a totally free alternative to Microsoft Office. It includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, and database packages. If you are comfortable using MS Office programs you will be comfortable using Open Office. It opens MS Office files and can save files to MS Office format so there are no file format compatibility issues.
For more information, please visit the Open Office website.
Mozilla Firefox 4.7 mbytes
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Fast, safe, free. If you haven't tried the Firefox web browser yet you should see what you're missing. See why Walt Mossberg, tech writer for the Wall Street Journal, says "Security, Cool Features Of Firefox Web Browser Beat Microsoft's IE". For more information, visit the Mozilla Firefox website.
GIMP 7,613,870 bytes
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The GIMP graphic image manipulation program is an open source alternative to the extremely expensive Adobe Photoshop program. It offers nearly all of the artistic tools provided in Photoshop. PLEASE NOTE: You will need to download and install a program called GTK toolkit prior to installing GIMP.
Scribus Desktop Publishing Software
Scribus is now available for Windows and Mac users! After experimenting with it a bit I can see Scribus has some powerful mojo. It's a stable, fully featured package that can easily go head to head against any Windows DTP from Microsoft or Adobe.
For more info, see the Scribus wiki.
Here's a screenshot of Scribus in action.
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Got clipart? Over 6500 free, open source images are available in this download. Images are available in png (portable network graphic) and svg (scaleable vector graphic) formats.
Inkscape Vector Graphic program
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Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as Postscript, EPS, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
PDF Creator 8 mbytes
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PDF Creator is a great free open source tool for creating Adobe Acrobat portable document format (PDF) files. Simply download and install this program on your Windows computer. Then whenever you need to create a pdf file from any Windows word processing, spreadsheet, graphics or other program hit your print button and select pdf creator from your list of available printer drivers. That's there is to it!
