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http://www.openoffice.org/

Open Office is a suite of office tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and maths formulas.

It is easy to learn and is very similar to other office software in look and feel and in features. The Open Office website contains tutorials and manuals.

The word processor, Writer, is suitable for making professional documents, reports, newsletters and brochures.

http://www.gimp.org/

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

It includes these features:

http://www.inkscape.org/

Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons metadata, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.