The suite is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Russian. It is an office suite that is available for Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. WPS Office was released in 2016 by Chinese software developer Kingsoft. This mode is available for both the newer version look and the classic menu-based interface. This makes switching from Microsoft Office easy to do as the interface is eerily similar.įor those users who have the luxury of a touchscreen PC you can use touch mode with larger icons. The new interface that was launched this year gives you the option of either working with modern or classic menus and toolbars. It also supports older file types such as PPT and XLS. This means that you can not only view but save files in formats such as DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX. The suite itself is fully compatible with all Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats. It is developed for both Windows and Linux, and offers a basic version for Android users. The company, SoftMaker, has been developing office software since 1987 and its office suite is their flagship product.įreeOffice is a complete office suite that is free to use for both home and in the workplace. Price: €29.If you are looking for a free and easy alternative to Microsoft Office, then FreeOffice is the suite for you. It’s not a complete replacement for Photoshop (one thing I miss is some kind of path tool), but it can do most things – and for the price (E29 from the app store – which includes a free upgrade when version 2.0 comes out) it’s just great! PSD format although some features like layer effects are not supported. All the familiar features are here, selection tools, gradients, brushes (it even supports Photoshop brushes). Pixelmator uses Apple’s in-built quartz filters for image effects, so if you have Apple’s Developer Tools installed and you know your way around Quartz Composer, you should be able to build your own. Pixelmator can only handle RGB but as I’m using it for web graphics that’s just fine. That’s not to say that it is a direct copy and whilst not as poweful as PS, it has some features and functionalitiy that is in fact better. As well as all this Coda has a built-in GUI for coding CSS, a preview mode which allows you to browse the DOM, a built-in Terminal for when you need access to the command line and ‘books’ - a reference section giving you the complete run-down on HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.Īnyone who is familiar with Photoshop will instantly have some idea of where Pixelmator is coming from. Coda has built-in FTP (it uses the same FTP engine as Panic’s top Transmit app). It supports Subversion for version control and it is extensible both with AppleScript and third-party plugins. It gives coding hints as you type (great if you can’t quite remember the syntax for that php function!). Whilst coding HTML it can validate on the fly. To begin with, it’s a text editor based on the popular SubEthaEdit text engine, it features syntax modes for ActionScript, ASP-HTML, CFML, CSS, ERB, HTML, Java, Javascript, JSP-HTML, LassoScript-HTML, Objective-J, Perl, PHP-HTML, Python, Ruby, Smarty, SQL & XML and additional syntax modes can be added. It’s not quite a full IDE, but it does a lot and makes what it does do very easy. Finally on to the coding! I’m currently using Coda from Panic.
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