[Bradford] 10 free software applications you should try...

[David Carpenter]

I'll take 10, ...and so will my wife!
(don't tell Linda she'll kill me if she finds out I have a wife!)

Liking this very much Dave!

This is mine:

We love Publisher don't we? Great for making those posters and fliers
with clip art and fancy writing.

BUT, not everyone has Publisher, and when we send them the files we
always get emails back saying they can't open it, so you have to print a
load off and drop them round....

Why not use Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/) - the Open Source Desktop
Publisher. Everyone can have a no cost desktop publisher!

When you send that file and they say they don't have a copy, just point
them to http://www.scribus.net/ and they can get a copy for free.

At last, a way to share your desktop publisher creations, work
collaboratively and to give your printer a break!

This might also be useful...
http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

Cheers
t'other David

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:19 +0100, David Spencer wrote:
> So what about something like this --
> 
> Are you jealous of the likes of Bradford Council and Yorkshire Water,
> with detailed geographical information at their fingertips?  Are
> applications like ArcGIS and Mapinfo way out of your price range?
> 
> If you need a Geographical Information System, Quantum GIS can meet your
> needs free of charge.  It can read the Ordnance Survey maps and postcode
> data recently opened up for free use, and then you can superimpose your
> own geographical information - cycle routes, council wards, school
> catchment areas, broken paving slabs - anything you can map can be
> plotted, analysed, shared and published.
> 
> Unlike so much of today's expensive software, Quantum GIS has a proper
> User Manual, and even has a "Gentle Introduction" for beginners.  It is
> licensed free of charge, and is freely redistributable, so you can put
> the power of GIS into the hands of as many people as you need, and it
> won't cost you a penny.  It runs equally well on Windows, Mac and Linux.
>  Find out more at http://www.qgis.org/
> 
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