si520 adobe alternatives

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ADOBE ALTERNATIVESBY: YUESUN, YIWEI MA


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ADOBE PRODUCTS

Acrobat

AfterEffects

Air

Bridge

Dreamweaver

Fireworks

Flash

Illustrator

InDesign

Lightroom

Photoshop PremiereElememt

s

PremierePro

Soundbooth

And many more


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PHOTOSHOP ALTERNATIVES

Corel PaintShop Pro

XnView

Picasa

VS.


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COREL PAINTSHOP PRO

For a photographer

or amateur designer,

Paint Shop Pro offers

almost the same

capacities as

Photoshop does

Functionality can be

extended by

Photoshop-compatible

plugins.

Faster than PS

More user-friendly

89.99 USD


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XNVIEW

can read more than 400

file formats (including

audio and video files)

Basic functionality

supporting 44

languages

Free


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COMPARISONS

0

5

10Price

Functionality

User

Experience

Service and

Support

Photoshop

PaintShopPro

XnView


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ILLUSTRATOR ALTERNATIVES

computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector

graphics images interactively on a computer, and save them in

one of many popular vector graphics formats.

Vector Graphics Editor


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CORELDRAW

Industry-standard editor,largely used in the graphic design,

sign making and fashion design industries.


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CORELDRAW

Major differences from Illustrator:

Extensive array of more than 50 import and export

filters

On-screen and dialog box editing

The ability to create multi-page documents.

Features:

The creation and execution of VBA macros

Viewing of color separations in print preview mode

Integrated professional imposing options.


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INKSCAPE

Free and open source vector editor whose primary native format is SVG

Especially popular on Linux.

Officially import SVG, SVGZ, AI, and PDF and export SVG, SVGZ, PDF, PostScript,

EPS, EPSi, LaTeX and POVRay.

Some formats have additional support through Inkscape extensions, including PDF,

EPS, Adobe Illustrator, and Sketch.


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Creator First Released Latest version List price (USD)

Adobe

IllustratorAdobe Systems 1987 CS4 (14) $599, $199 upgrade

CorelDRAW Corel 1989 X4 (14) $429, $199 upgrade

Inkscape Inkscape Team 2003 0.47 (Nov 2009) Free (Open Source)

General information


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Windows Mac OS X Unix

Adobe

IllustratorYes Yes No

CorelDRAW

Graphics SuiteYes Dropped (v. 11) Dropped (v. 9)

Inkscape Yes Yes Yes

Operating system support


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Maximum page

size

Maximum

zoom

Color

management

for print

Scripting support

Adobe

Illustrator

5.7785 X 5.7785

m6,400% Yes Yes

CorelDRAW 45.72 X 45.72 m 45,000% Yes Yes

Inkscape 304.8 X 304.8 km 25,600% No Yes

Basic features


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AI CDR ODG PS/EPS PDF SVG SWF DXF WMF/EMF

Adobe

IllustratorYes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No

CorelDRAW Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Inkscape YesPartia

lNo Yes Yes Yes No No Yes

AI CDR ODG PS/EPS PDF SVG SWF LaTeX DXF WMF/EMFTT/T1

fonts

Adobe

IllustratorYes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No

CorelDRA

WYes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Inkscape PartialParti

al

Yes YesParti

al

Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes No

Vector file formats: Import

Vector file formats: Export


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PDF CREATOR

PDF Creator is an application for converting

documents into pdf format on Microsoft

Windows operating systems.


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PDF CREATOR

Features:

Create PDFs from any program that is able to

print

Send generated files via eMail

Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you arethe author and the file has not been modified

Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being

opened, printed etc

AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on

Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Timeetc.


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WIN2PDF

Features

Create documents from any

Windows application that

supports printing in the following

formats: PDF, PDF/A, XPS, TIFF,

SVG

Merge PDF documents to the

beginning or end of an existing

PDF file.

Integrate with Outlook, Outlook

Express, or other MAPI e-mail

clients to automatically attach

created files to e-mail messages.

Custom Windows applications

including Visual Basic

applications can easily interface

with Win2PDF and can control

the created document file name

without user intervention.


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Key Features

Create PDFs from 300+ file types

Edit PDF files, including text, graphics and

pages

Streamlined integration with Microsoft Windows

and Microsoft Office for quick and easy PDF

creation

Combine files together from multiple

applications

Convert PDF to Microsoft Word, RTF, text and

images Digitally sign, certify and secure PDF

files

Review documents electronically with sticky

notes, stamps, drawings, and markup tools

Fill in, print and submit forms, or design and

collect information via your own forms


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Create, combine and

convert PDF files

Edit PDF files, including text,

graphics and pages


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Collect information accurately

with PDF forms

Secure & digitally sign


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Annotate and review

electronically


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DREAMWEAVER

MS Expression Web

NVU

KompoZer

VS.


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MS EXPRESSION WEB

a WYSIWYG HTML

editor and general web

design program by

Microsoft.

PHP, HTML/XHTML,

XML/XSLT, CSS,

JavaScript, ASP.NET and

ASP.NET AJAX,

Silverlight, Flash,

Photoshop files

extensive drag-and-drop

features

Able to install add-ons

from third-party

developers


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NVU

A WYSIWYG editor

Easy for novice users

and does not require

any knowledge of

HTML or CSS to use.

Development of Nvu

has been discontinued.

Free


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KOMPOZER

KompoZer is an open

source WYSIWYG HTML

editor based on the now-

discontinued Nvu editor.

The same standards

based functionality

FTP support

Free


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COMPARISONS

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Functionality

User

Experience

Service andSupport

Dreamweaver

MS Expression Web

NVU

KompoZer


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REFERENCES:

http://groundwire.org/support/articles/alternatives-to-adobe

http://paintshoppro.info/tutorials/paintshoppro_vs_photoshop.htm

http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/XnView-Review-11529.shtml

http://mediadesigner.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43025-1&afterinter=true

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics_editor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vector_graphics_editors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ http://www.daneprairie.com/products/win2pdf.htm

http://www.nitropdf.com

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