Scribus is an application for professional visual layout of printed documents (newspapers, magazines, brochures, literature, etc.) capable of creating high-quality pages for any purpose - be it replication for printing or electronic distribution.
Scribus supports all the features of professional publishing systems, such as extensive capabilities for layout and pre-press preparation of text, the CMYK color model, Spot Colors, the ICC color output management system, and the creation of PDF files.
This is similar to AdobeInDesign or QuarkXPress.
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qCAD is a professional CAD system, similar to AutoCAD, designed for creating mechanical engineering drawings and architectural plans. You can create technical drawings such as building plans, interior plans, mechanical plans, or schematics.
You can also easily create and edit drawings with ISO templates and save files in DXF format. The DXF format is used by many CAD systems.
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Pinta is an easy-to-use graphics editor. Its goal is to provide a simple and convenient experience for ordinary users.
Some of the supported features:
- image adjustment (automatic level correction, black and white image, sepia, ...)
- effects (motion blur, glow, warp, ...)
- working with layers
- unlimited depth of undo/redo actions
- drawing tools (brush, pencil, shapes, ...)
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A simple application for drawing and editing images.
Provides a level of functionality suitable for the average user.
Ideal for general tasks such as drawing simple graphics and simple photo editing.
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GIMP (a direct alternative to Adobe Photoshop) is a raster graphics editor, an alternative to Adobe Photoshop) for creating and processing raster graphics and partial support for working with vector graphics.
The editor supports more than thirty image formats and can work with layers, masks, filters and blending modes. The program has a huge range of tools for color correction and processing of any photographs and images.
Thanks to the user-friendly interface and nice features, learning to work in the editor is very easy.
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Dia is a program for creating diagrams, graphs, flowcharts, etc.
There is support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), relationship diagrams, electronic elements, flow diagrams, network diagrams and many others.
Dia includes a large number of graphic elements for drawing various diagrams: block diagrams, electrical diagrams, chemistry, Cisco and others.
Diagrams are saved in XML format (additionally compressed using gzip), and export to JPEG, EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF, PNG and other formats is also supported. You can import new objects into Dia, which are described in XML files.
Dia is extensible with new sets of objects that are described using files in an XML-based format.
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Blender is a complex 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-processing, interactive creation and playback (games).
With its help, static pictures, animation, models for games, as well as interactive information content in the form of independent programs are created.
It is possible to automate the program using Python scripts. In particular, import and export to popular file formats, such as 3D Studio and Wavefront Obj, are implemented in the form of scripts.
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Vym (View Your Mind) is a mind diagramming program. It is useful for organizing thoughts and working on structuring something.
A connection diagram (mind map, mindmap) is a color radial diagram with an image in the center, illustrating semantic and other connections between parts of scientific material.
For example, it can graphically illustrate the structure of a dissertation plan, a project plan, or the structure of government institutions in an area.
Communication diagrams have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations.
Opportunities include note-taking, brainstorming, summarizing, revising, and general clarification of thoughts.
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A simple drawing program for young children from 3 to 12 years old (eg kindergarten and primary school).
It is not an ordinary drawing tool. It's simple and fun to use. Sound effects and the animated nature of the program will help the user understand what is happening on the screen and will try to cheer him up.
You can draw using brushes or make shaped prints using stamps. For example, a teacher can make several animal figures and ask the children to draw the surrounding space in which they live.
Each shape has a melody and text prompts that are played and displayed when the child selects a shape.
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Lazarus is an integrated cross-platform software development environment in a Delphi-like environment in the Object Pascal language for the Free Pascal Compiler (often abbreviated FPC).
It is currently the only Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool that allows Delphi programmers to create GUI applications for Linux (and other non-Windows) systems.
Allows you to easily transfer Delphi programs with a graphical interface to various operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Android.
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