geozinger
Active member
Hello everyone,
I thought I would get people's opinions on an idea I'm working on.
I do pro-bono work for several non-profit organizations in my area, and I'm able to utilize my work computer for these jobs. However, my time in one or two of these organizations is term limited, and I will have to pass the responsibilities on to another person who may or may not have the same level of access to resources as I do here.
With that in mind, I was trying to develop a list of software that is cross-platform and open source, so we're not dealing with expired licenses and the fact that each person who comes into this position may have entirely different hardware than I do.
This is what I'm considering:
Scribus for page layout
GIMP for photo editing
Inkscape for vector editing
All of these are free or open source software and are all cross platform.
While I have yet to try these softwares, they would seem to satisfy my (empirical) needs. I know that commercial software was developed to satisfy commercial needs, but in the past I have downloaded free- or share- wares and gotten very good service from them. Although they were usually along the lines of DA's and single purpose software, like a photoshop filter, they got the job done and didn't nick my bottom line.
What do you think?
Does anyone have any better ideas?
Besides, this beats the same old Quark vs. InDesign posts I see everywhere else...
I thought I would get people's opinions on an idea I'm working on.
I do pro-bono work for several non-profit organizations in my area, and I'm able to utilize my work computer for these jobs. However, my time in one or two of these organizations is term limited, and I will have to pass the responsibilities on to another person who may or may not have the same level of access to resources as I do here.
With that in mind, I was trying to develop a list of software that is cross-platform and open source, so we're not dealing with expired licenses and the fact that each person who comes into this position may have entirely different hardware than I do.
This is what I'm considering:
Scribus for page layout
GIMP for photo editing
Inkscape for vector editing
All of these are free or open source software and are all cross platform.
While I have yet to try these softwares, they would seem to satisfy my (empirical) needs. I know that commercial software was developed to satisfy commercial needs, but in the past I have downloaded free- or share- wares and gotten very good service from them. Although they were usually along the lines of DA's and single purpose software, like a photoshop filter, they got the job done and didn't nick my bottom line.
What do you think?
Does anyone have any better ideas?
Besides, this beats the same old Quark vs. InDesign posts I see everywhere else...