


If it doesn’t do exactly what you want now, it probably will within six months. By now you’ve figured out the theme: Scribus is lightweight, it does its job admirably, and it costs you nothing. The bare-bones Scribus interface makes it easy for anyone to get started.Īdobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher now have a freeware analog in Scribus. Additional functionality comes from an extensive array of plug-ins, ensuring that Audacity can now confidently stand on its own against Soundbooth. It supports all major audio formats, including basic effects such as reverb, delay, and compression. The interface isn’t going to win any awards, but it’s clean and uncluttered–impressive for a program with so much functionality. A full-force audio editor, Audacity has been earning critical and popular acclaim for several years now, and every new version improves significantly upon the last. Is anyone out there giving it a try?Īudacity’s uncluttered panel belies the myriad features available.Īdobe Soundbooth might have a steel trap on your audio-editing sensibilities, but Audacity can set you free. Whether Synfig is truly capable of competing with Flash for complex multimedia animations remains to be seen. Neither Flash nor Synfig make for quick studies without a guide, but both are learnable. (Apparently, I can’t handle it, since it took me two tries to get a successful installation.) There’s also what seems like several metric tons of documentation and tutorials on the Synfig wiki, which is befitting for any app with Linux roots that has been ported to Windows.
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There are four install files that need to be installed in order: Gtkmm, Gtk+, Synfig Core and Synfig Studio. Synfig takes a bit of effort, but if you’re reading this blog post then you can probably handle it. Like Flash, it’s a 2D vector-based animation tool, and it’s one of several programs I found that tries to conquer that particular programming mountain, and does an admirable job of it–especially for freeware. Synfig Studio is a great answer to the replace-Flash question. Synfig’s editing system is managed with modular windows. Okay, so you can get the basic functionalities of Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver without the gut-punch to your wallet. (Read about other alternatives for Adobe Creative Suite in the first part of Roll your own Adobe CS3 for free.
