Hi, Really appreciate all your valuable inputs. Sebin, I tried mallige font in Inkscape, it is working. I will have to try Cinepaint and Krita. Scribus not working with Indian languages is a big drawback.
I have tried to collect a list of softwares used in print/web/multimedia journalism. Inputs on technical/functional drawbacks/advantage of the FOSS alternatives will be very much appreciated. There are some software listed for audio/video editing / matching them with FOSS alternatives if any of us have tried will be helpful. 1) Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) - [ Open Office, Abiword ] 2) QuarkXPress - [ Scribus (no indian language support) / Inkscape (not a publishing software but supports indian languages) ] 3) CorelDraw - [ Inkscape ] 4) Adobe PageMaker - [ Scribus ] 5) Adobe Photoshop - [ GIMP / Krita(CMYK support)/ cinepaint(CMYK support) ] 6) Adobe Type Manager (ATM) 7) FrontPage - ?? 8) Macromedia Dreamweaver - ?? 9) GIF Animation - [ plotutils, GIMP ] 10) Macromedia Flash 5 (Introduction) - [ Gnash ] 11) HTML 12) JavaScript (Introduction) 13) For video editing: Avid, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier Pro. 14) For audio editing: Nuendo, Cool Edit & Digi Design Protools Video/Audio GNU/Linux ---------------------------------- Musix GNU+Linux, a GNU+Linux distribution based on Knoppix, with special emphasis on audio production. http://www.musix.org.ar/ Dynebolic, a GNU/Linux distribution, with special emphasis on audio and video editing. http://dynebolic.org/ Video Editing GNU - Kino, Cinelerra, AVIDemux, Kdenlive, LiVES, Lumiera, PiTiVi and Open Movie Editor. Other FOSS alternatives for journalists: -------------------------------------------------------- CMS - Drupal/Joomla/Plone Version control – Subversion (will this be used?) Participatory media/Citizen journalism - Gram Vaani (radio station with just a computer) Free encyclopedia – Wikipedia Browser – Firefox Email – Thunderbird Calender – Mozilla Sunbird Video/audio player – VLC Media Player Chat client – Pidgin Are there any print/web/multimedia media group who are using FOSS already? Examples will also help in convincing. Thanks, Roopesh On 1/18/10, renuka prasad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Nagarjuna G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Sebin Jacob <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Gimp as if now does not have native CMYK support which is a must for >> > publishing industry. On the other hand, Krita, a KDE dependent program >> > in >> > its infancy boasts it. >> > >> >> use cinepaint for CMYK, a specially crafted version for print and >> motion picture special effects. >> >> could you poing any links that would guide for successful installation, i > am getting lot of dependency problems > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
