KompoZer

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Adobe Dreamweaver, GoLiveCS2 & MS Frontpage 2003 Alternative

KompoZer is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of CSS, XML and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.

Those who are familiar with the Dreamweaver interface will feel comfortable with KompoZer:

• WYSIWYG editing of pages, creating web sites as easy as typing a letter with your word processor.
• Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through the files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site.
• Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's popular browsers.
• Switch between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
• Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages easy.
• Powerful support for templates, forms and tables.
• The most powerful and easiest-to-use Web Authoring System.
  
  

WorldWind is an open source virtual globe developed by NASA and open source community for use on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. The program overlays NASA and USGS satellite imagery, aerial photography, topographic maps and publicly available GIS data on 3D models of the Earth and other planets.

WorldWind was released for the first time in 2004 by NASA. The latest version (1.4) developed mainly by open source community members from WorldWind Central/Free Earth Foundation had its premiere on February 14, 2007.

Apart from the Earth there are several worlds in WorldWind: Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter (with the four Galilean moons of Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto) and SDSS (imagery of stars and galactics). All these worlds are available in the File menu.

Users interact with the selected planet by rotating it, tilting the view, and zooming in and out. Five million placenames, political boundaries, latitude/longitude lines, and other location criteria can be displayed. WorldWind provides the ability to browse maps and geospatial data on the internet using the OGC's WMS servers (version 1.4 also uses WFS for downloading placenames), import ESRI shapefiles and kml/kmz files. This is an example of how WorldWind allows anyone to deliver their data.

Other features of WorldWind include support for .X (DirectX 3D polygon mesh) models and advanced visual effects such as atmospheric scattering or sun shading.

The resolution inside the US is high enough to clearly discern individual buildings, houses, cars (USGS Digital Ortho layer) and even the shadows of people (metroplitan areas in USGS Urban Ortho layer). The resolution outside the US is at least 15 meters per pixel.

Microsoft has allowed WorldWind to incorporate Virtual Earth high resolution data for non-commercial use.

WorldWind uses digital elevation model (DEM) data collected by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. This means one can view topographic features such as the Grand Canyon or Mount Everest in three dimensions. In addition, WW has bathymetry data which allows users to see ocean features, such as trenches and ridges, in 3D.

Many people using the applications are adding their own data and making them available through various sources, such as the WorldWind Central or blogs mentioned in the link section below.

All images and movies created with WorldWind using Blue Marble, Landsat, or USGS public domain data can be freely modified, re-distributed, and used on web sites, even for commercial purposes.

OS: Windows 2000/XP
License: NASA 1.3

Miro (previously known as Democracy Player and DTV) is an Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF).

Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based "channels", manage them and play them. Miro is designed to mesh with other PCF products such as Video Bomb, a social tagging video website, and the Channel Channel, a TV guide for internet television.

Make and broadcast your own Internet TV with your digital camera or your DV camcorder. Online are the step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to by millions of people.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Synfig Studio

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Synfig is a powerful, vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer resources and people. 2D Animation has traditionally been very expensive because every frame must be drawn by hand. Even with today's digital inking and painting software, the process still relies on individuals hand-drawing each frame. This task is called “tweening”.

Synfig animation technology gets rid of the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually.

This allows you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence.

GIMPshop is a modification of the open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), and to get the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make Photoshop users feel comfortable using GIMP.

It shares all GIMP's features, including the long feature list and customisability, while addressing some common criticisms regarding the program's interface: GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windows version, uses a plugin called 'Deweirdifier' to combine the application's numerous windows in a similar manner to the MDI system used by most Windows graphics packages. While GIMPshop doesn't support Photoshop plugins, all GIMP's own plugins, filters, brushes, etc. remain available.

Due to the changes to the interface, many Photoshop tutorials can be followed in GIMPshop unchanged, and most others can be adapted for GIMPshop users with minimal effort.

OS: Win 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence.

Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, text, paths, markers, clones, transforms, gradients, alpha blending, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
The Paint Bucket tool works just like the Paint Bucket tool in bitmap image editors -- clicking in an area fills the area with the chosen color. Unlike other editors, the Inkscape tool features some additional fill methods to help you finish your work faster.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence.

PDFCreator is a tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. (Attention: Vista users see PDFCreator website for important information)

Key Features:

• AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
• Merge multiple files into one PDF
• Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
• Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
• And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
• Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
• Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
• Send generated files via eMail
• Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS

OS: Windows (Vista users please read information on DVD)
License: GNU General Public Licence.

Scribus

Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application.
It is known for its broad feature set of page layout features comparable to leading commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.

Scribus supports most major graphic formats in addition to SVG. Professional type/image setting features include CMYK colors and ICC color management. Although written in C++, it has built-in scripting using Python. It is available in more than 24 languages.

Printing is achieved via its own internal level 3 PostScript driver, including support for font embedding and sub-setting with TrueType, Type 1 and OpenType fonts. The internal driver fully supports Level 2 PostScript constructs and a large subset of Level 3 constructs.

PDF support includes transparency, encryption and a large set of the PDF 1.4 spec as well as PDF/X3, including interactive PDFs form fields, annotations and bookmarks. However, although PDF export is very good, it is not currently able to import/edit PDF files, and PDFs exported from Scribus are not searchable in Acrobat Reader if the document contains proportional fonts.

The file format, called SLA, is based on XML and is fully documented. Text can be imported from OpenDocument text documents, as well as RTF, Microsoft Word .doc, and HTML formats (although limitations apply).

Scribus cannot read or write the native file formats of commercial programs like QuarkXPress, Microsoft Publisher, and InDesign; the developers feel that reverse engineering those file formats would be prohibitively complex and could risk legal action from the makers of those programs.

OS: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
License: GNU General Public Licence.

Avidemux

Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit videos.

It can open MPEG, Nuppelvideo, AVI, openDML, and BMPs.
Most common codecs are supported ( DivX, Xvid, M-JPEG, MPEG, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libmpeg2 and libavcodec.
Video can be edited, appended, cut, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either MPEG 1/2 or AVI (MPEG4/MJPEG).
The Spidermonkey Javascript engine is used to give powerful scripting capabilities.

OS: Win 98/ME/2000/XP
License: GNU General Public Licence.

CamStudio

Macromedia Captive 2, Camtasia Studio 3.1.2 Alternative

CamStudio is a screencasting program for Microsoft Windows.
The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files.
CamStudio is coded in Microsoft Visual C++.
CamStudio V2.0 is not compatible with Windows Vista.
It can be run under Vista by using the operating system's compatibility mode set at Windows XP (Service Pack 2).
However, the quality of recorded audio can be poor.

OS: Windows
License: GNU General Public Licence.

Jahshaka

Adobe After Effects 7.0 Alternative

Jahshaka is a cross-platform, open source, video editing, effects, and compositing suite!
Imagine if you could...
Create Effects in real time
Animate with unlimited features
Edit with flexibility and speed
Paint and design on moving video
Work in any format at any resolution
Create music with all the tools the pros use
...all while sharing files, projects and clips with users on your network or around the world
Jahshaka v3.0 will let you do this, and much more. Jahshaka was written from the ground-up to work in different environments, and lets you use the tools you need to get the job done in real time. Thanks to the power of OpenMl and OpenGl you can do this on anything from PC's to Mac's to high-powered Sgi workstations and not have to worry about mixing audio, video and graphics card, installing custom hardware and drivers, or spending millions of dollars for high end speed, power and functionality.

JahPlayer is a professional grade media player capable of playing uncompressed video and image sequences at resolutions as high as 2K and 4K in real-time and features a robust set of image analysis and asset management tools. Jahplayer uses a completely hardware accelerated pipeline, allowing you to maintain the aspect ratio of the source media or change it on the fly, and is capable of both disk based playback and ram based playback.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence.

VirtualDub

VirtualDub is video capture and video editing software for Microsoft Windows, written by Avery Lee. It was originally created for the purpose of compressing anime videos.

VirtualDub has many advanced features, is able to use plugins to add different video processing techniques, and can process .avi files, if the required video and audio codecs are installed.

VirtualDub comes with a number of filters. Examples include reducing the video size by half, converting the video to grayscale, arbitrary rotation and about a dozen more. Plugin filters further extend VirtualDub's capabilities.

In addition to filters, entire image sequences can be saved to hard disk as BMP or TGA files, which may be later modified. In addition, the sound track can be extracted from a video, and modifications made to it; filters can be applied before the track is spliced back in. Frame sequences and sound tracks must be edited in external software programs.

VirtualDub can also help overcome a common problem with digital cameras that also record video. Many models, especially Canon, record in an M-JPEG format that is virtually incompatible with some NLE programs, such as Vegas 6.0 and 7.0; simply saving such an AVI file as an "old-style AVI" in File allows the video to appear in Vegas.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence.

Audacity

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Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe Audition 3 Alternative

Audacity is a easy-to-use recorder and audio editor for Windows,
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from vinyl records, cassette tapes, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

• Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
• Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with new recordings or other files. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence

Amaya is a free open source web browser and authoring tool created by a structured editor project at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), a French national research institution, and later adopted by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in the early 80's, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on Grif, both developed and sold by French software company Grif SA.

Originally designed as a structured text editor (predating SGML) and later as an HTML and CSS editor, it was then expanded to include XML capabilities such as XHTML, MathML and SVG.

Amaya displays free and open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG animation.

OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
License: W3C

DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional looking DVDs.

The main DVDStyler features are:

• you can put buttons, change font and colors
• you can copy and paste any menu object
• you can drag and drop MPEG files directly
• you can create NTSC/PAL menus
• you can import image file for background
• you can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen
• you can change font/color
• you can set chapters for each movie
• you can change post command for each movie
  

Blender can be used for modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning,
animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing
compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.

Here are some examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHvayDzMRcI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruTNnF6Ztg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AiLyQWXjIg&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vLvJF4uEM&mode=related&search=

OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications.

• FTP/SFTP uploading, downloading and synchronization
• JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code
• Code Assist on HTML, JavaScript, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
• Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code structure
• Error and warning notification for your code
• Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
• Cross-platform support

OS: Windows
License: APL v1 0 & GNU General Public Licence

Hugin is a cross-platform open source panorama photo stitching program developed by Pablo d'Angelo and others. It is a GUI front-end for Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools and Andrew Mihal's Enblend. Stitching is accomplished by using several overlapping photos taken from the same location, and using control points to align and transform the photos so that they can be blended together to form a larger image. hugin allows for the easy (optionally automatic) creation of control points between two images, optimization of the image transforms along with a preview window so the user can see whether the panorama is acceptable. Once the preview is correct, the panorama can be fully stitched, transformed and saved in a standard image format. A long list of language versions helps to get familiar with the complex possibilities since tweaking of a broad set of parameters can be used to achieve outstanding results.

Hugin and the associated tools can be used to

• combine overlapping images for panoramic photography
• correct complete panorama images that are e.g. "wavy" due to a badly levelled panoramic camera
• stitch large mosaics of images and photos, e.g. of long walls or large microscopy samples
• find control points and optimize parameters with the help of software assistants/wizards
• output several projection types like equirectangular (used by many full spherical viewers), mercator, cylindrical, stereographic and sinusoidal
• advanced photometric corrections and HDR stitchin

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence

VLC media player is a software media player by the VideoLAN project.

It is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.
VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client", but that meaning is deprecated.

• VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. (For example, files still downloading via BitTorrent or eMule) This is because it is a packet-based player.
• The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.
• VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg. This means that DVD Video and MPEG-4 playback as well as support for Ogg and Matroska (MKV) file formats works "out of the box". However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MPlayer and xine-lib-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC does, however, also support codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.
• VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art.
• VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag. An entire library of tapes (or about 50 D-VHS 2 hours long) can be placed on a single terabyte sized hard drive. However, they must be imported by playing the tapes in real time, and can't simply be copied as data files.
• Using a FireWire connection from cable boxes to computers; VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
• VLC media player can display the playing video as the desktop wallpaper.
• On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence

Taksi is a screencasting program that can take screenshots and record video clips of game sessions and other similar 3D-graphics applications.
Originally inspired by Fraps, Taksi aims to provide an open source alternative for video capture (screencasting).

As of the version 0.7.6, DirectX versions 8 and 9, OpenGL and GDI-based applications are supported by Taksi. Fullsize or half-size video recording is also possible.

• Live video compression possible with any VFW video codec installed and usable on a Windows system (including but not limited to Xvid, DivX, etc), which can reduce the usually heavy load (associated with video capture) on hard disks.
• Supports user-specified key binding.
• Custom video settings supported and available on a per-game basis.
• Video capture
• Real-time computing
• Screencasting
• Screen capturing, formats available are PNG or 24-bit BMP.

Audio is not captured. (to be expected in the future, now you can use external software to record sound)

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP
License: BSD (TaksiLicense)

ZScreen is a open source screen capture program for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. Supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. It can optionally interface with image editing software.

• Region/window/full-screen screenshots
• Automatic FTP of screenshots
• URL copied into clipboard in a single keystroke so that a user may paste that link via irc, email, im, etc.
• Custom automatic naming conventions with variables such as %mi to retrieve the current minute (or %t to get the title of the active window for instance)
• Interfaces with image editing software such as Microsoft Paint or Adobe Photoshop so that editing may be done before a screenshot is uploaded
• History section that stores the URL to every screenshot that has been uploaded so that a person may just copy and paste multiple URLs off to someone via a chat medium
• Very silent operation, it can just be set up once and then left alone. Everything that needs to be used regularly can be accessed from the right click menu
• Simple to configure. Two hotkeys (one for active window and one for cropped shot / full screen) make it easy so that you do not need to unnecessarily open up the program window
• Region (cropped shots) can be captured and the URL given out to someone else in less steps then any other program in existence

OS: Windows
License: GNU General Public Licence

FreeMind is a mind mapping application written in Java. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It provides extensive export capabilities. An XHTML export allows a user to create a mapped image with links to a folding outline.

The most notable features of FreeMind.

• Folding of branches
• Exports to HTML, XHTML (a static 'all-expanded image' plus expanding +/- list below image). Also exports an 'all-expanded image' in the following formats: PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF format. Images are non-interactive. Does NOT export to Flash (although this is a feature of the current Beta version; v.0.9.0 Beta 8).
• Icons on nodes
• Clouds around branches
• Graphical links connecting nodes
• Search restricted to single branches
• Web and file hyperlinks from nodes

OS: Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP
License: GNU General Public Licence

KeePass Password Safe is a password management utility for Microsoft Windows released under the GNU General Public License. KeePass stores passwords, usernames, and URLs in an encrypted database unlocked by a password, key file, or a combination of the two. The database is encrypted with AES or Twofish encryption ciphers.

KeePass is maintained by Dominik Reichl. Development began in November 2003. The project is currently rated "Production/Stable", and there are more than 28 translations available. There are currently several unofficial ports in development targeting Linux/Mac OS X, PocketPC, and J2ME.

According to the utility's author, KeePass was the first password management utility to use security-enhanced password edit controls, in this case one called CSecureEditEx. The author makes several claims to the security of the control and its resistance to password revealing utilities, however the author does not cite or make any references to any third-party testing of the control to corroborate the claims of its security. The source code is freely available and open to such testing.

Access to the database is restricted by either a master password or a key file. Both methods may be combined to create a "composite master key". If both methods are used, then both must be present to access the password database. KeePass version 2.x will introduce a third option: dependency upon the current Windows user.

OS: Windows
License: GNU General Public Licence

"WAMP" stands for "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" and is a variant on "LAMP" (the meaning is the same except that the L stands for "Linux"). These four programs provide a very popular platform for developing a wide variety of web-based applications. Windows you probably have heard of, Apache is a popular web server package (allows people with web browsers like Internet Explorer to connect to a computer and see the information there as web pages), MySQL is a database manager (that is, it keeps track of data in a highly organized way) and PHP is a scripting language that has highly evolved facilities for creating web pages.

OS: Windows 95/98/ME/200/XP/Vista
License: GNU General Public Licence

Smith is a cross-platform ColdFusion engine, written in Java. Running on the top of a Java Servlet Container and Java Runtime Environment, it can be deployed on any operating system and work with any web server. Smith is an alternative to the existing ColdFusion servers.
Smith offers the following advantages:

• good performances
• easy deployment and maintenance
• precise and user-friendly debugging output
• lightweight (runs on Tomcat, Jetty and any other servlet container)
• possibility to include JSPs from CFM
• multiple CF-applications with separate configurations running on the same servlet container
• no license costs
• continual development and improvemen

OS: Cross-Platform
License: GNU General Public Licence

7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for Microsoft Windows, and later made available to other computer operating systems. In the form of p7zip, 7-Zip has been ported for use on Unix-like systems such as GNU/Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X as well as AmigaOS. It is also compatible with DOS via either a DOS port, or by using the HX-DOS extender to run the Windows command-line version.

7-Zip operates primarily with the 7z archive format, as well as being able to read several other archive formats. In operation a user can use the command line (all systems), graphical user interface ("Windows" only) or seamless Windows shell environment methods of control.

7-Zip began in 2000 and is actively developed by Igor Pavlov. In contrast to the market-leading programs WinZip and WinRAR, which remain as proprietary competitors, 7-Zip is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (with the RAR license restrictions), with the AES code under the revised BSD license.

7-Zip supports many features, some which may not be found in popular commercial compression software.

• For encryption, 7z archives support the 256-bit Rijndael AES cipher. Encryption can be enabled for both files and the 7z directory structure. When the directory structure is encrypted, users are required to supply a password to see the filenames contained within the archive. WinZip developed AES encryption standard is also available to encrypt ZIP archives but doesn't offer filenames encryption like 7z.
• 7-Zip flexibly supports volumes of dynamically variable sizes, useful for backups on removable media such as writable CDs and DVDs.
• When in 2-panel mode, 7-Zip can be considered a basic orthodox file manager.
• 7-Zip has the ability to unpack archives with corrupted filenames, renaming the files as required.
• Lets users make self-extracting archives so that users who don't have the 7-Zip codec can still extract compressed files.

OxygenOffice Professional, previously known as OpenOffice.org Premium, is a open source
enhancement of official OpenOffice.org. The OxygenOffice Professional Team has modified the
source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it.
Here are just a few of the extras you get with OxygenOffice Professional:

Extra content

More than 2,900 graphics are included, both clip art and photos Several templates and sample documents are included too, as well as over 90 fonts. These extras are ingrated by default in the installation of OxygenOffice Professional, but they are optional, so the user can decide what parts to include and what parts to leave out. They are all free for both personal and professional use.

Extra tools

Additional tools like OOoWikipedia, which can search the free on-line encyclopaedia Wikipedia, are also included. An enhanced help menu, addtional User's Manual, and the enabled extended tips are great to help beginners get started using OxygenOffice Professional.

Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages

Ghostscript can be used as a raster image processor (RIP) for raster computer printers — for instance, as an input filter of line printer daemon — or as the RIP engine behind PostScript and PDF viewers.

Ghostscript can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter; this is often combined with a PostScript printer driver in "virtual printer" PDF creators.

As it takes the form of a language interpreter, Ghostscript can also be used as a general purpose programming environment.

Ghostscript has been ported to many operating systems, including most Unix and Unix-like systems (including Linux), Mac OS, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS.

OS: Windows
License: GNU General Public Licence

Art of Illusion is a open source 3D modelling and rendering studio.
It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.

The current version is 2.5.1, released Oct. 21, 2007. This version is both stable and powerful enough to be used for serious, high end animation work. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Some of the highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials

OS: Windows
License: GNU General Public Licence

OpenFX is an Open-Source, modeling and animation studio, distributed under the GNU General Public License, created by Dr. Stuart Ferguson. He made the decision to release the source code to the public in the middle of 1999 and released a stable version a year and a half later. The product, formerly named SoftF/X, was renamed to OpenFX.

The OpenFX featureset includes a full renderer and raytracing engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, and an extensive plugin API. Plugin capabilities include image post processor effects such as lens flare, fog and depth of field. Animation effects such as explosions, waves and dissolves add to the flexibility of the program. Version 2.0 also features support for modern graphics cards with hardware GPU acceleration.

OS: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
License: GNU General Public Licence