Free/Open Source Tools
These are a collection of free (as in beer) and/or open source (free as in speech) tools that I've used, loved, and sometimes fiddled with. You can download a list of graphics-related tools (PDF, 13kB). I'll try to keep the links up to date but let me know if there are any that fall out of development or aren't good, or if you know of tools that should be included here.
Document Creation/Editors:
- Cream, Simplified VIM Text Editor
- Notepad++ (free/open notepad replacement with syntax highlighting, folding, regex search/replace, etc.)
- PDFCreator (printer driver for PDFs)
GIS/Remote Sensing:
- GRASS GIS (excellent GIS)
- Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- QGIS + GRASS (native Windows 32 application)
- SAGA GIS
- GeoVISTA Studio
- SPRING (GIS + image analysisfrom Brazilian INPE)
- MultiSpec (Multispectral Image Analysis)
Graphics Tools:
- PrintKey 2000 screen capture utility
- The Gimp (raster and vector drawing tool)
- InkScape (vector drawing tool)
- Dia (vector drawing tool, Visio-esque)
- ImageMagick (graphics conversion, simple editor)
- XnView (graphics conversion, simple editor)
Statistics, Graphing, Charting:
General Office-like Software Suites:
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