Here you will find a listing of applications developed for various aspects of desktop publishing, such as composition, and printing for booklets, flyers.
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AbiWord is an openly developed word processing program (similar to MS Word) that is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks; available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows users.
http://www.abisource.com/
Adie is an extremely fast and convenient programming text editor written using the FOX Toolkit; also acts as a convenient file viewer, supporting several methods to move from one file to the next.
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/adie.html
Bean is an open source word processor powered by the same text engine as Apple's Text Edit; is not a replacement for MS Word.
http://www.bean-osx.com/
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, this company supplies a number of organizations, both large and small, with computer forms products including four-of-a-kind postcards, jumbo print-on-demand postcards, create-n-hang door hangers, and more.
http://pcforms.com
CDox is an editor for CD documents like CD covers, back sides, and booklets; features many image processing options like sharpen, contrast, etc.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdox
Desktop Publishing - About.com
This website explains the basic aspects of Desktop Publishing. You can learn how to do graphic design, understand typography, web design tutorials and more. You can also use this website to find the best desktop publishing software. The website also explains the elementary principles of desktop publishing.
http://www.desktoppub.about.com
Diakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor; features arbitrary language scripting, bookmarking, regular expression searching, and much more.
http://purepistos.net/diakonos/
Provides free legal forms, professional documents and business templates. Includes a document database and member profiles.
http://www.docstoc.com
Eddi is an openly developed, powerful and easy-to-use text editor application for X; can use macros and has syntax highlighting.
http://eddi.sourceforge.net/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and JavaScript; brings to the web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word.
http://www.fckeditor.net/
Offers professional templates in building Web forms and surveys. Includes a service index, samples, pricing information and detailed features.
http://www.formsite.com
Free Printable Calendar Templates
Create free printable calendar and download free printable calendar templates. Includes finished as well as blank calendars.
http://www.printablecalendar.ca
gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the Gnome desktop environment; designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label, business card sheets, etc.
http://glabels.sourceforge.net/
GNU ed is an openly developed and clean implementation of the POSIX line-oriented text editor; full-screen editors like GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html
GNU Nano is openly developed and released under the GPL as an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor application; for Linux users only.
http://www.nano-editor.org/
iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application; lets you quickly store, organize, and access bits of information, and copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop clippings, etc.
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/iclip/
jEdit is an open source text editor; has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros.
http://www.jedit.org/
An openly developed word processor; complete with print output. Contains license, download information, and more.
http://www.lyx.org/
pptout (passepartout) is a desktop publishing application; features layout templates, an XML- based typesetting engine called xml2ps, user- defined text formatting, etc.
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
PyCalendarGen generates customizable calendar pages in PDF format for use in things like photo calendars.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycalendargen/
Scribus is an openly developed desktop page layout application program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript.
http://www.scribus.net/
TBT, Time Based Text, allows the user to include more information in written text by saving the time delta between keystrokes.
http://tbt.dyne.org/
Text Trix is general purpose editor that makes coding easier and more precise; makes large files easier to read and organize, with special plugins to manipulate text according to user-defined settings.
http://textflex.com/texttrix
A desktop note-taking application openly developed for Linux and Unix; fully supported on Windows and OSX.
http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
Provides writing software that enhance and correct grammar, spelling and writing style. Includes product download, product index, online demo, technical support section and free online grammar, spelling and style checker.
http://www.whitesmoke.com
Provides a HTML form builder to help Internet users create contact forms, online surveys and invitations. Includes product features, a form gallery, examples and pricing information.
http://www.wufoo.com
YAFPC (Yet Another Free PDF-composer) can compose PDF documents from picture files and other PDF files, encrypt the created document, and send it to a given email address.
http://www.yafpc.net
