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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Graphics and Video

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, on the proprietary side is the ever present and predominant Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. On the open source side, the projects that stand out are GIMP (a Photoshop replacement) and Inkscape (a vector graphics program – like Illustrator). On the open source end, there are some notable entries.

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News in open source and open standards

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. { There’s lots of great details on Groklaw. Be Helpful.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

Adobe Express Platform overview: Adobe offers several paid graphic design tools, like Illustrator and Photoshop. Their free tool is Adobe Express , which allows users to develop everything from newsletters and presentations to videos and annual reports. Additional users are 50% off.

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All You Need To Know About Streaming Tools With Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) Services

AccelEvents

This is known as Transmission Control Protocol-based technology, and it was initially developed by Adobe and their work on the Adobe Flash Player. . Open Broadcaster Software (OBS; Application-Based Program). This software is free but is limited and has no professional support because of its open-source nature.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. Adobe Air , and applications. WordPress.

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

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It depends on your platform, your budget, and your technology skillset: epub-tools : an open source, command line set of tools for conversion to epub format. Adobe InDesign : the rather expensive desktop publishing program includes, apparently, conversion to epub (but not to mobi.) ($$). Mobipocket Reader (Mobi – nonDRM).

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A Guide to Preparing for Drupal 10

Forum One

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. Drupal 8 was a pivot toward enterprise and made it more competitive with fully featured proprietary systems like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Sitecore. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members.

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