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Remember that OpenOffice already has the ability to turn any of their normal documents and spreadsheets into a PDF at a click of a button. However, if all you need is to be able to allow your Marketing droids to generate PDFs from documents they create in other software, then you can slap PDFCreator on their little Windows boxen.
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CMYK separation, PDF generation,and much of the toolsets you’d expect to see in Quark or InDesign certainly more than enough power for your Marketing department.Īcrobat Pro – If you’re heavily using features like annotation, collaboration, form creation, et cetera, then you probably won’t be replacing Acrobat Professional.
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InDesign – Professionals already use Scribus to handle multipage full color layouts sent directly to commercial print houses, so it’s gotta be worth your time to look at. While it might be missing a pet feature or two, the bottomline is that Inkscape is ready to be taken seriously as a replacement for Illustrator (and, previously, FreeHand). You can create substantially complex pieces with Inkscape which will probably far out-pace the ability of your Marketing department to bother learning in the first place. These days it has continued to advance and I’d suggest it’s ready for the professional world. I’ve toyed with it for 2 or 3 years to keep tabs on its’ development, after being fairly impressed during my first run through. Illustrator – Definitely have a strong look at Inkscape. Otherwise, there really is nothing to compare to Photoshop. Although, someone else mentioned Pixel which could possibly cut the mustard depending on your needs. Photoshop – You’re unlikely to replace that one. Marketers are not designers, so it would appear as though if Software X does a reasonable job approximating most tasks of Adobe Y, then one can adopt it. The original poster framed the scenario as tools for the marketing department to use, which clearly lowers the bar in terms of expectations as to what level of competency will be applied. However, one may be able replace some of the other software depending on how you used it. We don’t even have to discuss its’ intolerable user interface because GIMP’s graphic capabilities are not even in the same ballpark as Photoshop. GIMP may be acceptable for casual doodler or cropping photos, but it ultimately a complete waste of time for any professional accustomed to a plethora of serious tools and a myriad of features used daily to make a living. No doubt that I would agree with the parent 100%.