Portable Document Format (PDF)
PDF is a file format created by Adobe for document exchange. It is used for representing documents independent of software or hardware plattform. PDF is an open standard that was officially published on July 1, 2008 by the ISO as ISO 32000-1:2008.

• Open Office - Office suite supporting to create pdf dcouments.
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• PDFCreator - Acting as a printer driver the software can be used from every apllication to create a PDF file using the printing function. The common security option for PDF are supported.
  
• FreePDF XP - Creating pdf documents from all applications. A software printer calls the Ghostscript software which creates a pdf document.
  
• Pdftk - is a simple comand line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:
  • Merge PDF Documents
  • Split PDF Pages into a New Document
  • Rotate PDF Pages or Documents
  • Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
  • Encrypt Output as Desired
  • Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
  • Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp
  • Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
  • Update PDF Metadata
  • Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
  • Unpack PDF Attachments
  • Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
  • Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
  • Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)
  A GUI-Version for Windows und Linux is provided by "GUI for PDFTK" .
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• jPdf Tweak - swiss army knife for PDF documents whhich supports merging, splitting , documents as well as rotating or rearranging of pages within PDF-files.
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• PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam) - very simple, easy to use utility to split and merge pdf files. It’s released in two versions: basic and enhanced. The enhanced version can only be downloaded as source code from the authors web page. To ease life a compiled version is available below:
  pdfsam-enhanced143e.7z HASH MD-5: D276CE8D0F1606B7BC0B306BBFCF5D9E
  pdfsam-enhanced150e.7z HASH MD-5: EB401E0ADB2E757A995E93954967D5DF
  
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• pdfposter - can be used to create a large poster by building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster.
  The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. PDFPoster needs Python.
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• BeCyPDFMetaEdit - the software supports editing of several settings like the metadata about author, title, subject and keywords of the document. Furthermore, one can customize the viewer preferences, the bookmarks, the page labels, the page transitions for slide shows and the encryption/permissions of a document.
  
• PDF Action Reader Free - fill in, save and print pdf forms are the main features of this software
  

GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats.

InkScape
Inkscape is a vector graphics editor application. Its stated goal is to become a powerful graphic tool while being fully compliant with the XML, SVG and CSS standards.

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JDraw
JDraw is a pixel oriented graphics editor. It is entirely written in Java, easy to use and saves (animated) GIFs, JPEGs, ICOs (favicons) and PNGs.

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Video Editors

• Avidemux: video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
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• ZS4 Video Editor: advanced multi-track video editing and compositing software with more than 150 built-in video effects including excellent color and chroma keying tools, distortion effects, color adjusters, pattern generating effects and many others.
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Blender
Blender is a free software 3D animation program. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.

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Audacity
Software for recording and editing sounds.

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The GodFather
ID3-Tag editor with online music database support.

Portable Document Format (PDF)
PDF is a file format created by Adobe for document exchange. It is used for representing documents independent of software or hardware plattform. PDF is an open standard that was officially published on July 1, 2008 by the ISO as ISO 32000-1:2008.

• Sumatra PDF - Sumatra PDF is a slim and fast pdf viewer for Windows with a minimalistic design.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader - the defacto standard to view pdf Documents
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• Xpdf - PDF-Viewer that includes a pdf text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities.
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XnView
Utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It can be used as like open the famous Windows-only ACDSee.

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IrfanView
Modular graphic viewer for Windows.

VLC media player
s a free cross-platform media player supporting to play DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, Audio CDs on diffrent operating systems with streaming server and client abilities.

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MJ Studio
MJ Studiois used to play back , pitch, scratch and mix mp3s. It is a complete virtual dj solution, including a mixer with 3-band equalizer with pre-hearing. Further it had a comfortable playlist with ID3 support and an autoplay feature which could play back your mp3s seamlessly.

Winamp
is a extendable media player. Due to diffrent types of plugins ( input, output, visualization, general purpose, media library, device ) the functionality can be adapted for individual preferences.

Greenshot
Screengrabber featuring grabbing a region of screen, a window or the whole screen.

JavE
JavE is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters. It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images.

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MPEG Recorder
A real-time recorder and compressor of audio and video input for the Windows platforms, using MFC, DirectX, FFMPEG and MPEG4IP.

NConvert
Batch utility to convert graphic files! It supports about 400 graphic file formats for import and about 40 for export.

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PosteRazor
Enables to print pictures in any size. It cuts a picture into pices. Each pices for example in the size of A4 can be printed and the pices can stick together to the desired picture size.

MediaCoder
Universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices.

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Audiograbber
Software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database.

No23 Recorder
can captur any audio data replayed on the system.

Streamripper
Client that records Internet radio streams in the MP3 or Vorbis formats. It has an ability to override existing files in the save folder.

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Orbit Downloader
Orbit Downloader is a download manager that has the unique ability to download streaming media. It supports HTTP(S), FTP, Metalink, RTSP, PNM, MMS, NSS, RTMP protocol and can grab the streaming formats: WMV, MOV, RM, FLV.

FlightGear
Modular flight simulation software with

• support of different Flight Dynamics Models,
• Extensive and Accurate World Scenery Data Base,
• Accurate and Detailed Sky Model,
• Flexible and Open Aircraft Modeling System,
• Moderate Hardware Requirements,
• Networking options.

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