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    Scribus

    Scribus

    Powerful desktop publishing software

    Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
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    Downloads: 20,988 This Week
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    QPrompt

    QPrompt

    Personal teleprompter software for all video makers.

    Free teleprompter software for all video creators. Built with ease of use, fast performance, control accuracy, and cross-platform support in mind. QPrompt works with studio teleprompters and tablet teleprompters, cellphones, and webcams. It was also designed for use in video conferences.
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    Downloads: 912 This Week
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    Imaginary Teleprompter

    Imaginary Teleprompter

    Free teleprompter software

    Free teleprompter software. Built with web technologies so its easy to customize. Features include: mirroring, dual-screen support, rich text editing, image support, custom styles, and auto-save.
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    Downloads: 320 This Week
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    Subtitle Workshop

    Subtitle Workshop

    Free subtitle editor

    Subtitle Workshop is a free application for creating, editing, and converting text-based subtitle files. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want.
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    Downloads: 1,038 This Week
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    DeepSpeech

    DeepSpeech

    Open source embedded speech-to-text engine

    DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers. DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. Project DeepSpeech uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. A pre-trained English model is available for use and can be downloaded following the instructions in the usage docs. If you want to use the pre-trained English model for performing speech-to-text, you can download it (along with other important inference material) from the DeepSpeech releases page.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    StackEdit

    StackEdit

    In-browser Markdown editor

    Unrivalled writing experience. StackEdit’s Markdown syntax highlighting is unique. The refined text formatting of the editor helps you visualize the final rendering of your files. StackEdit provides very handy formatting buttons and shortcuts, thanks to PageDown, the WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor used by Stack Overflow. Whether you write, you review, you comment… StackEdit's layout provides you with the flexibility you need, without sacrifice. StackEdit’s Scroll Sync feature accurately binds the scrollbars of the editor panel and the preview panel to ensure that you always keep an eye on the output while writing. StackEdit can sync your files with Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub. It can also publish them as blog posts to Blogger, WordPress and Zendesk. You can choose whether to upload in Markdown format, HTML, or to format the output using the Handlebars template engine.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    OS X Portable Applications

    Portable OS X FOSS applications

    OS X FOSS portable applications are packaged so you can carry around on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (or also on your internal hard disk), taking your preferences with you.
    Downloads: 42 This Week
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    VisualSubSync is a subtitle program using audio waveform representation as its cornerstone. SRT and SSA/ASS subtitle formats are supported. It also provides some tools to help improving the quality of your subtitle.
    Downloads: 34 This Week
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    TextMate

    TextMate

    TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later

    Powerful and customizable text editor with support for a huge list of programming languages and developed as open source. Making multiple changes at once, swapping pieces of code, and a lot more is made trivial with TextMate’s easy way to add multiple insertion points. Select what you want to search, what you want to search for, and TextMate will present the results in a way that makes it easy to jump between matches, extract matched text, or preview desired replacements. See what files have changes in the file browser view, what lines have changes in the editor view, bring up a diff of the current file’s changes, commit a subset, TextMate supports it all for all the major version control systems. One file mixing languages? Projects using different build systems? Third party code with different formatting preferences? TextMate can handle it all by associating detailed scope selectors with key shortcuts, settings, etc.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    pgfplots - A TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX in two and three dimensions with a user-friendly interface and pgfplotstable - a TeX package to round and format numerical tables. Examples in manuals and/or on web site. ATTENTION: As of February 2020, the development has been moved to https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgfplots ! Please refer to the new page for downloads and change requests! This page is kept in read-only mode.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Subtitle-Workshop-Classic-v6.3.4

    Subtitle Editor derived from 6.0c, but with VLC and Hunspell checker

    Audio waveform, VLC Video Renderer, UTF8 coding, Audio stream detection and Selection, Resizeable screens, Hunspell spellcheck, Easy shortcut editing, user profiles and more than 70 filetypes supported.
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    Downloads: 96 This Week
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    Aewan is a multi-layered ascii-art/animation editor that produces both stand-alone cat-able art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration in your terminal applications.
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    Downloads: 91 This Week
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    The Beamer class is a LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video projector. THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. Home page: https://github.com/josephwright/beamer Mailing lists: http://groups.google.com/group/beamer-class
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    Markdown Monster

    Markdown Monster

    An extensible Markdown Editor, Viewer and Weblog Publisher for Windows

    Markdown Monster is a powerful, yet easy-to-use Markdown editor with syntax highlighting and sophisticated and fast edit features. A collapsible, synced, live preview lets you see your output as you type and scroll. Easily embed or paste images, links, tables and code using raw markup or our smart UI helpers to simplify many operations with a few keystrokes or a click or two. Paste images from the clipboard or drag and drop from Explorer or our built-in file browser. Inline spell-checking and word counts keep your content streamlined. You can export Markdown to PDF or HTML on disk or copy Markdown selections as HTML to the clipboard. The HTML preview can display syntax-colored code snippets for most coding languages. Choose from light or dark app themes, and individual and fully customizable preview themes. Use the built-in folder browser to open, manage and drag files into content, use the document outline to quickly jump through content, or use our shell integration.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Canorus

    Canorus

    Music score editor

    Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond
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    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    Early Access iText, a PDF generation library in Java
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Markdownify

    Markdownify

    A minimal Markdown editor desktop app

    Make changes, See changes. Instantly see what your Markdown documents look like in HTML as you create them. While you type, LivePreview will automatically scroll to the current location you're editing. The good old GitHub Flavored-style Markdown. So, you don't feel out of the place. Syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks with language identifiers and Markup languages. Change the color scheme of the editor based on your preferences. i.e to choose between Dark mode/Light mode. Supports emojis in the preview mode for when you need to express yourself via one. To clone and run this application, you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. Markdowinfy is built using Electron, Node.js, and some more awesome software packages.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    PDF Clown

    PDF Clown

    General-Purpose PDF Library for Java and .NET

    PDF Clown is a general-purpose Java and .NET library for manipulating PDF files through multiple abstraction layers, rigorously adhering to PDF 1.7 specification (ISO 32000-1). This project aims to provide a universal access to PDF files (creation, reading, editing, rendering...) through an accurate and elegant object-oriented API. * Features: http://pdfclown.org/overview/features/ * Overview: http://pdfclown.org/overview/architecture/ * Website: http://pdfclown.org/ * Blog: http://www.pdfclown.org/blog/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDFClown
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    PabloDraw
    A Windows-based ansi/ascii editor with unlimited multi-user capabilities.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    OOoLilyPond (OLy) is an Extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. With OLy, you can include musical notation within text and presentation documents. The music expressions are entered as text codes and translated to images (png or eps) using LilyPond. The development has moved to GitHub (https://github.com/openlilylib/LO-ly). You will not find new releases here anymore.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Gnome Subtitles
    Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    HelpMaker is a Help Authoring Tool to make WinHelp, HTML-Help, HTML-Website and RTF (i.e., manuals) files. HelpMaker is fully functional GUI help authoring tool written in Delphi. Many open-source developers use this to document their open-source project
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    FOray

    Modular XSL-FO Implementation for Java.

    FOray is an open-source XSL-FO publishing system that is suitable for converting XML content into PDF and other document formats. Although not yet fully conformant with the XSL-FO standard, it is very useful for many applications.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    ENDEDIT

    ENDEDIT

    ENDEDIT is a B800 text screen editor

    ENDEDIT is a B800 text screen editor. Such screens were usually displayed as an end screen when exiting Dos games. Source code repository: https://github.com/jval1972/ENDEDIT
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Graphical User Interface to PDFTK
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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