Open Source Linux Desktop Publishing Software
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View 6 business solutionsBrowse free open source Desktop Publishing software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Desktop Publishing software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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DesignCraft
Open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe InDesign, in Rust
DesignCraft is an open-source desktop publishing and page layout application built in Rust that provides an alternative to Adobe InDesign for creating professional print and digital publications. The software features a familiar design interface with tools for managing page spreads, text frames, images, typography, colors, and document layouts. It supports advanced text composition with threaded text frames, multi-column layouts, automatic hyphenation, paragraph and character styles, text wrapping, and precise typographic controls. DesignCraft includes parent pages, layers, reusable styles, color swatches, and support for importing and exporting Adobe InDesign Markup Language (IDML) files. The application also provides a command-line interface, JSON control channel, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allow AI agents to create, edit, and automate publication layouts. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and web browsers, DesignCraft supports PDF, PNG, and EPUB exports -
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TexMaths is an addon designed to provide LaTeX support into LibreOffice. LaTeX equations can be inserted as images (SVG or PNG formats) and the LaTeX code is saved into the image attribute for further editing.
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This project aims to offer a simple cross-platform application for cropping PDF files. A simple user interface lets you define exactly the crop-region by fitting a rectangle on the visually overlaid pages.
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TeXworks
A simple interface for working with TeX documents
TeXworks is a free and simple working environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX) documents. Inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, it makes entry into the TeX world easier for those using desktop operating systems other than OS X. It provides an integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms particularly GNU/Linux and Windows and features a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users. -
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KLatexFormula is an easy-to-use graphical application for generating images (that you can drag and drop, copy and paste or save to disk) from LaTeX equations.
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Ghost
The world’s most popular open source headless Node.js CMS
Ghost is a popular open source headless Node.js CMS for professional online publishing. Ghost allows writers, podcasters and other online content creators to quickly and easily set up their own sites, publish content on their own terms and deliver newsletters online. Ghost is a powerful platform that gives you complete control over design, content, delivery, experience and more. It’s got built-in SEO features, email newsletters, and works with hundreds of tools that can help speed up your workflow. It’s also great for entrepreneurs as it has the ability to create sustainable membership businesses. -
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Tadween is a powerful multilingual application allowing users to write Arabic in applications that support Unicode but don't fully support Arabic.
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EqualX
The LaTeX Equation Editor
EqualX makes you easily write equations in LaTeX and preview them in real-time. repository: https://gitlab.com/q-quark/equalx -
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Waterloo
Java-based scientific graphics
Java-based scientific graphics with support for Java, Groovy, MATLAB, Python, the R statistical environment, Scala and SciLab. -
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Ada PDF Writer
A standalone, portable package for producing dynamically PDF documents
PDF_Out is an Ada package for writing easily PDF files dynamically. Enables the automatic production of reports. Standalone and unconditionally portable code. No external resource is needed. More information on... http://apdf.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/apdf Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/ada-pdf-writer -
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Tex to HTML translator
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This is a nice Windows and Linux screenshot tool for make, edit, share and exchange screenshots between people via the internet. This tool oriented for QA testers, programmers, designers, sales managers, support centers and other people.
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Kordil EDMS the Electronic Document Management System with power tools is a user friendly document control and management system to gather all documents and key and important information within your organizations under a single database.
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PS_View is a PostScript and PDF previewer. It is multiplatform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), GUI program based on the Ghostscript engine. Key features include huge magnification, fast viewing of large documents, exact measuring, and restart.
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it-advisor
Советы и скрипты для Thinstation 5.x и 6.x
Все записи основаны на собственном опыте и не являются чьим то официальным юзермануалом. Все скрипты и команды тестировались в установленной системе SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.4 от NOVELL Скорее всего всё будет работать в любой системе Linux как есть или с небольшими изменениями, но смысл манипуляций остаётся тот же. -
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biblatex-gost
Biblatex support for GOST bibliography style
Biblatex style to format bibliography according to Russian standard GOST 7.0.5-2008 -
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disser
LaTeX classes and templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian
LaTeX classes, Makefiles and document templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian -
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Docmenta
Single Source Publishing Web-Application
Docmenta is a Java web-application for single source publishing and help authoring. The application allows collaborative creation of documentation, e-books and online-help. Supported output formats are PDF, HTML, WebHelp, EPUB (eBook) and DocBook. For more information, visit: http://www.docmenta.org -
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Adawat Arabic Text tools
Adawat Arabic Text tools
Arabic Text tools, like remove Harakats, AutoCorrect, Normalize, Insert Symbols, etc. -
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IME tables of sawndip, or Zhuang written using Chinese characters, for the ibus table engine.
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An image postprocessor for the DIY Book Scanner described on instructables.com and diybookscanner.org. Gets images ready for OCR or for PDF. Written in Java based on a partial port of the Leptonica image processing library.
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HTML Article Generator
Quickly create custom webpages from your content
HTML Article Generator is a tool for quickly generating webpages based on content you enter, including both text and images. These webpages can be customised to give a unique appearance, with a selection of 5 different themes. Other features include the ability to save the current values you have entered and restore these values after future changes have been made. Images can have caption text added to them and given alt text to improve accessibility. Each webpage can also be given a favourite icon. This tool is useful for those who are building a website or blog and quickly need to generate a series of webpages from existing content. -
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LaTeX Track Changes
Collaborators on a version-controlled .tex file can track changes.
LaTeX Track Changes shows changes over time for a .tex file that has its history stored in a git or svn repository. The user can customize how to view the changes: limited to certain authors or by revision or date among other filters. An Emacs mode provides the user interface. Plug-ins for other editors (such as TeXShop) are planned. -
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Oasi - Open Document Speaker
A simple Text2Audio
Document Speaker - A simple Editor to give VOICE on Your Documents, save your doc as AudioBook or other format this app recognizes the language of the documents and converts them into audiobooks by recognizing texts in nearly 200 languages ... Open RTF & RTFD (mac format/inode directory) ODT,EPUB (unstable), PDF as plain Text to convert as MP4 or AudioBook. Convert Text to Voice Format: 3gp2 3GPP-2 Audio (.3g2) [Qclp,aac,aace,aacf,aach,aacl,aacp] 3gpp 3GP Audio (.3gp) [Qclp,aac,aace,aacf,aach,aacl,aacp] AIFC AIFC (.aifc,.aiff,.aif) [lpcm,ulaw,alaw,ima4,Qclp] AIFF AIFF (.aiff,.aif) [lpcm] NeXT NeXT/Sun (.snd,.au) [lpcm,ulaw] Sd2f Sound Designer II (.sd2) [lpcm] WAVE WAVE (.wav) [lpcm,ulaw,alaw] adts AAC ADTS (.aac,.adts) caff CAF (.caf) [Qclp,aac,aace,aacf,aach,aacl,aacp,alac,alaw,ilbc,ima4,lpcm,ulaw] m4af Apple MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a,.m4r) [aac,aace,aacf,aach,aacl,aacp,alac] m4bf Apple MPEG-4 AudioBooks (.m4b) [aac,aace,aacf,aach,aacl,aacp] mp4f MPEG-4 Audio (.mp4 -
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Texinfo Web Publisher
Multi-format web publishing system based on Texinfo
Texinfo Web Publisher is a Makefile based publishing system featuring simultaneous con- tent creation into HTML, non-split HTML, Framed HTML, HTML Zip, XML, DocBook, PDF, DjVu, PostScript, DVI, Plain text, Info and EPUB book formats. All Texinfo Web Publisher output formats are from a single source. Texinfo Web Publisher can be used for website creation has FTP deployment capabilities and supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Texinfo Web Publisher is a low maintenance solution for publishing websites with multi- format matching content. Texinfo Web Publisher is a wrapper for GNU Texinfo.
