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Other DTP software
- Scribus
- Another open source DTP program (Unix/KDE).
- InDesign
- Adobe's new DTP program (Mac, Windows).
- PageMaker
- Adobe's old DTP program (Mac, Windows).
- FrameMaker
- Adobe's text processor with DTP features (Mac, Unix, Windows).
- QuarkXPress
- The coolest kid on the block before InDesign (Mac, Windows).
The web page made Galeon crash.
- Ovation Pro
- A DTP program for (primarily) RISC OS (RISC OS, Windows).
- PageStream
- A DTP program with drawing features (Amiga, Linux, Mac, Windows).
- TeX
- Donald Knuth's typesetting software (almost any OS).
Not exactly "DTP", though.
XML
- XML
- The eXtensible Markup Language.
- XSL Transformations
- How to turn an XML file into a different XML file
(or something else).
- PSGML
- An SGML/XML mode for Emacs.
- nXML
- A new XML mode for Emacs, with support for RelaxNG schemas.
- Conglomerate
- An XML-based structural (as opposed to WYSIWYG) word processor
(in Gtk).
- DocBook
- An XML DTD for writing documentation.
- XHTML
- HTML reinvented as XML.
Libraries
- gtkmm
- The C++ language bindings to
GTK+.
- libxml++
- A C++ wrapper for libxml2.
- libxslt
- The Gnome XSLT library, which includes the xsltproc program.
- FreeType
- A font rendering library.
- Fontconfig
- A library for finding available fonts.
- FAM
- SGI's File Alteration Monitor.
- cairo
- A cross-device vector graphics library we might use some day.
X11 and PostScript is among its supported output targets, and
there are plans for PDF.
File formats
- PNG
- The Portable Network Graphics format.
- PostScript
- The only page description language you can write a
web server in.
- PDF
- The Portable Document Format.
Miscellaneous
- Ghostscript
- A postscript interpreter.
- Doxygen
- A source code documentation system.
- AbiWord
- Open source word processor for which an xml2ps export plugin
is available.