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Asked: 2011-10-10 19:13:48 +0800 CST

Are there any Ubuntu-based equivalents of Corel Draw, PageMaker, PhotoShop and Quark Express

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Are there any Ubuntu based application for the below listed softwares.

  • Corel Draw - latest version

  • PageMaker - Latest version

  • Photoshop - Latest version

  • Quark Express - latest version

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4 Answers

  1. Photoshop is a raster graphic editor. Ubuntu has Gimp and Krita

    Gimp

    PageMaker and QuarkXPress are both desktop publishing applications. It's interesting you mentioned those because Adobe InDesign is currently a clear leader among commercial applications in this area. Open-source equivalents are Scribus, KWord and (to some extent) Lyx

    Scribus

    CorelDraw is a vector editor. In Ubuntu, Inkscape provides similar functionality.

    Inkscape

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  2. These are the best alternatives to the softwares you have listed above:

    1) CorelDraw - Inkscape, Xara Xtreme and Scribus (for desktop publishing only)

    2) Pagemaker - Scribus, Lucidpress and Spring Publisher

    3) Photoshop - GIMP, Krita, CinePaint and Pinta

    4) Quark Express - Same alternatives as Pagemaker and probably CorelDraw too.

    Source: I manage a website which publishes free and open source alternatives to commercial softwares so I have to research about lot of softwares. You can check it here.

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  3. I would also like to add MyPaint as an alternative to Gimp and Krita for raster painting. And though a bit dated at this point Xara Extreme is an alternative to Inkscape for Vector Graphics. Still perfectly usable for most tasks.

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  4. ... Scribus for page layout. Not exactly pagemaker though, probably better. Not sure how it compares these days to Quark these days. Or InDesign for that matter.

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