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    Apache OpenOffice

    Apache OpenOffice

    The free and Open Source productivity suite

    Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.
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    Downloads: 255,520 This Week
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    KDiff3

    KDiff3

    A graphical text difference analyzer

    This repository is no longer maintained and is kept for archival purposes. See https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3 for the newest code and https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/ for release bundles. All bugs should be filed at bugs.kde.org. KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool with integrated editor. It can also compare and merge directories. Platform-independant.
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    Downloads: 2,373 This Week
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    OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool

    OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool

    The free computer aided translation (CAT) tool for professionals

    OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.
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    Downloads: 1,899 This Week
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    LibreOffice

    LibreOffice

    A free and powerful office suite

    LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) – development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice makes your work look great while you focus on the content, thanks to its powerful styles system and structuring tools. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard (OpenDocument Format).
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    Downloads: 1,105 This Week
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    jEdit

    jEdit

    jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java.

    jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture.
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    Downloads: 691 This Week
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    Allows editing of any size file in hexadecimal, decimal and ASCII. A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. 68K, PPC and Carbon run on MacOS 7-9 and X.
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    Downloads: 193 This Week
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    wxMEdit

    wxMEdit

    wxMEdit, Cross-platform Text/Hex Editor, Improved Version of MadEdit

    •Added automatically checking for updates •Added bookmark support •Added right-click context menu for each tab •Added purging histories support •Added selecting a line by triple click •Added FreeBASIC syntax file •Added an option to place configuration files into %APPDATA% directory under Windows •Improved support for Find/Replace •Improved Mac OS X support •Improved system integration under Windows •Improved encoding detection result •Improved Hex editing support •Added more choices for data format copying/pasting in Hex Area •Added new feature: Paste with Overwriting in Hex Area •Improved encoding support --Added grouping of encodings --Added new encodings: ISO-8859-16,CP1258,KOI8-R/U,GB18030,CP850,CP852,CP855,CP866,CP437 for ASCII-Art •Redesigned dialogs with Code::Blocks wxSmith •Updated translations --Added Spanish,Russian,German,Polish translation --Updated Chinese and Japanese translations •Other fixes and changes
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    Downloads: 224 This Week
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    Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit

    Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit

    Localization tools built by localizers for localizers

    Tools for localization: - Pootle: web based translation management system. - Virtaal: Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool. - Translate Toolkit: QA, format conversion and support (PO, Java .properties, OpenOffice, Mozilla, XLIFF, TMX, TBX, CSV, Qt .ts).
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    Downloads: 115 This Week
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    Ada Class Library

    Ada Class Library

    Ada Class Library - an object orientated library for Ada.

    Text search and replace. Scripting (small tool programs). CGI scripts. Execution of external programs (incl. I/O redirection). Garbage Collection. Extendended Booch Components. CD-Recorder
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    Downloads: 366 This Week
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    JuffEd
    JuffEd is a free, cross-platform text editor for programmers and advanced users. Has syntax highlighting for many languages, code folding, find/replace using plain text and regexps, code completion, multiple charsets and many other useful features.
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    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    OxygenOffice Professional(OOOP, O2OP)is an enhanced version of free OpenOffice.org what is a multi-platform office productivity suite.OxygenOffice Professional contains more extras like templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support. Get 3.2.1
    Downloads: 31 This Week
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    GloboNote

    GloboNote

    Create sticky notes, to-do list, journals & reminders all in one app

    GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application. It lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, journals, reminders and other notes in one place. There are no limits to the number of sticky notes you can create. Notes can be organize by groups and search using the search tool. GloboNote can be run in any OS that has Java 8 installed.
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    Downloads: 40 This Week
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    SETEdit is a friendly text editor. It is a text mode application with windows, buttons, mouse support, etc. The main target of the project are programmers so the editor is mainly oriented to programming.
    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    FCKeditor

    FCKeditor

    FCKeditor (retired)

    FCKeditor is the previous version of CKEditor and has been discontinued after version 2. The new CKEditor is redesigned from the ground up, offering more WYSIWYG text editing features, enhanced security and better integration. Don’t force yourself with retro FCKeditor. Switch to the new, cool CKEditor at ckeditor.com
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    AraWord

    AraWord

    AraWord is a pictogram-based word processor for disabled people.

    AraWord is currently a part of ARASUITE!!!! Pleas, look for ARASUITE in Sourceforge!!!! https://sourceforge.net/projects/arasuite/ AraWord is a word processor that combines pictograms and text to help disabled people. More info: http://www.catedu.es/arasaac/index.php
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    Downloads: 121 This Week
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    biblatex
    Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities
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    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Canorus

    Canorus

    Music score editor

    Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    jdTextEdit

    jdTextEdit

    jdTextEdit is a powerful texteditor with a lot of features

    Downloads: 61 This Week
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    Docear

    An Academic Literature Suite

    Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Jaxe
    Jaxe is a free Java XML editor with a configurable GUI, using XML schemas for validation and XSL for exports in HTML or XML.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    GNU nano is a GPLed clone of the Pico text editor. It aims to emulate Pico as closely as possible, while possibly adding new features. Nano has moved to Savannah. Please see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nano/ for current releases.
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    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    VisualMathEditor

    VisualMathEditor

    LaTeX, AscciMath and MathML editor developed in Javascript and HTML

    Visual Math Editor New Version “ It now offers more than 730 LaTeX symbols and 210 AsciiMath symbols. It now works in all modern browsers without plugin. It now works with LaTeX, AsciiMath, MathML and HTML syntaxes. It improves the ergonomics of the user interface.” VisualMathEditor is a LaTeX, AsciiMath and MathML editor developed in Javascript and HTML. It operates independently on the web or locally. It has many features and menus that help the equation-entry and allow their posting and backup. Formulas : - math physics symbols - operation symbols - logical symbols - arrows symbols - relation symbols - bracket symbols - differential symbols - functions symbols - integral symbols - matrix symbols - sqrt & frac symbols - sub & sup symbols - sum & prod symbols - greek characters
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    Downloads: 34 This Week
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    JOrtho - Java Orthography Checker
    JOrtho is a spell checker for Java. The library works with any JTextComponent from the swing framework. The dictionary is based on the free Wiktionary.org and applicable for multiple languages. You can select the spellchecking language via context menu.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    net2ftp

    net2ftp

    net2ftp is a web-based FTP client

    net2ftp is a web based FTP client. Use it at http://www.net2ftp.com or install it on your own web server (PHP needed, MySQL optional). Features: browse, copy/move/delete files and directories recursively, upload, download, edit, view code with syntax highlighting, zip and unzip. net2ftp now also supports FTP over SSH.
    Downloads: 26 This Week
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    RText is a customizable programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of its features include: syntax highlighting, editing multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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