![]() ![]() ![]() Scribus: A desktop publishing program, the open-source alternative to Adobe InDesign. ![]() I also use the word processing program, Writer, for most of my blog entries and short stories. I use the spreadsheet program, Calc, to track my revenues and expenditures for my publishing business, since it currently isn’t a large enough enterprise to justify a full-blown accounting program. Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. OpenOffice & LibreOffice: Two different versions of an MS Office-style productivity suite, originally the same product but now on different development forks. Here are a few that I couldn’t do without. Getting yourself into murky legal waters is the last thing you want when you’re trying to get to market as quickly and cheaply as possible.įortunately, there are a number of excellent tools available that can do everything the big-name software titles can do, but which are completely free or very inexpensive. ![]() Even if you have access to them through your primary employer, you’ll probably be violating some terms of service if you use them for your own for-profit work. Many people learned to use them in college and have continued using them throughout their professional lives.įor a do-it-yourselfer trying to get started in self-publishing, however, they have a big disadvantage: they’re all expensive as hell. These software packages have a long history behind them and a huge installed user base. Step into any big business office and you’ll find lots of software with big names attached: Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Intuit QuickBooks, Adobe InDesign, and many more. ![]()
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