On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Victoria Brandon wrote:
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for apps, maybe mail and web software is readily available for free or
cheaply, but what about replacements for Word, Photoshop, Filemaker, Fetch,
and Acrobat? -- all of which I use constantly.
For Word, there's AbiWord <http://www.abisource.com/> or NeoOffice <http://www.neooffice.org/> which is a replacement for the whole Office suite. Both read/write Word files.
Photoshop you can use the Gimp <http://www.gimp.org/> but that's sub-optimal, imo, since it's an X11 package and not entirely Mac native. ImageJ <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/> is a good image manipulation prgram, more oriented to scientific image processing than Photoshop, and there's Graphic Converter <http://www.lemkesoft.com> which is a killer bargain at $50, and does nearly everything that PS does (including running scanners and PS filters) or Photoshop Elements which is a LOT cheaper than Photoshop for 90% of what Photoshop does. (and if you don't work with CYMK files, it'll come close to doing 100% of what PS does.)
To replace Filemaker you could use a variety of open source database systems like MySQL and Postgres, but those are a little industrial strength for your needs, I fear. But upgrading FM is pretty cheap.
Fetch works in OS X if you upgrade to the carbonized version, or you can use ftp on the command line for free.
Acrobat is less needed since OS X can put out PDF files natively, from any application that uses Print Services, which is pretty much everything.
If you do forms and suchlike from Acrobat, you'll need to upgrade.
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