Welcome to Desktoptips Free Software and reviews page. The most exciting news for those who wish to begin to learn Desktop Publishing is that you can download a group of programs that will allow you to create professional Documents and prepare them for the printer to publish.......all entirely for Free. Each of these programs are supported on Desktop Tips.

Below are the Essential Desktop Kit programs and Download Links:

The GIMP

 

Portable GIMP
for Portable Apps

 

Scribus

Portable Scribus
for Portable Apps:
I downloaded
my copy from
Download.com

 

Inkscape

Brilliant Digital Editing Program with a huge range of Tools and filters. A must have program !
Version of The GIMP for Portable apps. Take The GIMP with you on your memory stick.
Superb Desktop Publishing Program with multi page, multi document support. Create a masterpiece and send it to the publisher in proffessional PDF format withCMYK conversion.
Excellent Vector Graphics creation program. Simple to use and yet powerful and accurate. Supports SVG and PDF export functions.

PortableApps: TAKE YOUR FAVOURITE PROGRAMS WITH YOU IN YOUR POCKET.
PortableApps is one of the best Freeware programs Iv'e seen recently. You can already buy memory sticks with the U3 system on it, but you have to buy many of the extra programs. PortableApps is Free and so are the programs that install on it, which include The Open Office suite, Firefox, Thunderbird. And of course you can add The GIMP, VLC media editor (plays huge range of movies like divx, mpeg etc. and mp3 files).
Note: I downloaded the Scribus portable from Download.com not PortableApps.com but it works fine under Portable Apps.
Visit the PortableApps home page for your Free download and more information.
You can add extras to The GIMP like a background window plugin or a plugin to make The GIMP look more like Photoshop. All of the other Plugins and Scripts work as well.
Portable Desktop Publishing has arrived !

Color Picker is an invaluable freeware program that allows you to choose colors and create a palette from anywhere on your computer screen. It also displays all the different color models. It allows you to compare at a glance the RGB and CMYK values for any image. Its also handy because it actually shows you the colors being projected on your screen compared to what you have chosen in the the graphic program you are using.
ColorPicker:

Ghostscript:

Essential add on for Scribus giving PDF file saving support.

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