Scribus

Scribus is an open source desktop publishing application. Throw MS Publisher out of the window with confidence! Works on all the platforms that matter.

(If you can’t find the Windows version, it’s here. Installing it might not be for the faint-hearted…)

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Evolution

Evolution is the email client and personal information manager – think Outlook –  which has been an integral part of the Gimp desktop on Linux for some time.

It’s been available for Mac OSX for a while, and now it has been ported to Windows too. Ace!

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PDFCreator

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. It features stuff like encryption, autosave filing based on tags, and PDF merging. Cool!

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AbiWord

AbiWord is a fantastic multi-platform word processor which is compatible with MS Word documents, as well as many other file formats.

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