Technical communication tools

ACD Canvas is a graphics, publishing, and imaging product for personal computers. The current version is Canvas X. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACD Canvas"

Adobe Acrobat was the first software to support Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format (PDF). ...more on Wikipedia about "Adobe Acrobat"

Adobe LiveCycle Designer is a forms authoring tool published by Adobe Systems. The purpose of Designer is to be a one-stop design tool for XML forms to be rendered as PDF or HTML files. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adobe LiveCycle Designer"

Adobe Persuasion (formerly Aldus Persuasion) was a presentation program developed for the Mac platform by Aldus Corporation. After it was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1994, when the two companies merged, a Microsoft Windows version was released. Adobe discontinued production from September 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adobe Persuasion"

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the market leader for commercial bitmap image manipulation, and probably the most well-known piece of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is usually referred to simply as "Photoshop". Photoshop is currently available for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows; versions up to Photoshop 7 can also be used with other operating systems such as Linux using software such as CrossOver Office. Past versions of the program were ported to the SGI IRIX platform, but official support for this port was dropped after version 3.
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AuthorIT is a Content management system used by technical writers to produce single-sourced document sets. AuthorIT is often referred to as a Help authoring tool. AuthorIT can produce documentation in the following formats: ...more on Wikipedia about "AuthorIT"

Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is a bitmap graphics editor and vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation bought out Jasc Software, and with it, the distribution rights to Paint Shop Pro. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corel Paint Shop Pro"

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A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. In some languages, words can appear in many different forms, but only the lemma form appears as the main word or headword in most dictionaries. Many dictionaries also provide pronunciation information; grammatical information; word derivations, histories, or etymologies; illustrations; usage guidance; and examples in phrases or sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dictionary"

Adobe FrameMaker is a desktop publishing application that is popular for large documents. It is produced by Adobe Systems. Although (or perhaps because) FrameMaker has evolved slowly in recent years, it maintains a strong following among professional technical writers. As an all-in-one package optimized for technical writers, FrameMaker remains unrivalled. But for deployment in high-end technical publication departments, native XML authoring systems are starting to replace it. ...more on Wikipedia about "FrameMaker"

The GNU Image Manipulation Program or The GIMP is a free software bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics. It also has some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers; it is licensed under the GNU General Public License. ...more on Wikipedia about "GIMP"

GIMPshop is a modification of the free/ open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP. ...more on Wikipedia about "GIMPshop"

Harvard Graphics was a pioneering, award-winning presentation program developed for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows by Software Publishing Corporation. Harvard Graphics, Inc. released the first version of their landmark computer program for MS-DOS in 1986 as Harvard Presentation Graphics. It was the first presentation consumer application software program to allow users to incorporate text, information graphics, and charts into custom slideshow presentations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harvard Graphics"

Help & Manual is a Windows-based help authoring tool published by EC Software, a company based in Austria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Help & Manual"

Founded in 1981, Interleaf was a company that produced a technical publishing software product with the same name. It was a competitor of the Adobe FrameMaker product. Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Interleaf"

Keynote is a presentation software application made by Apple Computer for their Mac OS X operating system. Keynote version 2 was announced on 11 January 2005 as part of the iWork software package (which also includes the Pages word processing and page layout program). The combined package has a retail price of $79 USD. Keynote 3, part of iWork '06 was realeased at the 2006 MacWorld Expo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Keynote (software)"

Lotus Freelance Graphics is an information graphics and presentation program developed by Lotus Software (formerly Lotus Development Corp.). Lotus Freelance Graphics is a part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite for Microsoft Windows. It allows users to create and compile text, digital images, diagrams, basic drawings, and charts (such as bar charts and pie charts) into a digital slide show. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lotus Freelance Graphics"

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Being widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers, it is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology: according to its vendor, Microsoft Corporation, some 30 million presentations are made with PowerPoint every day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Microsoft PowerPoint"

Microsoft Visio is diagramming software for Microsoft Windows that is part of the Microsoft Office series of applications. ...more on Wikipedia about "Microsoft Visio"

Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. It was originally written by Richard Brodie for IBM PCs running DOS in 1983. Later versions were created for the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows (1989). It became part of the Microsoft Office suite. ...more on Wikipedia about "Microsoft Word"

In Unix, a pseudo terminal is a kernel device pair that simulates an ordinary terminal but without the associated terminal hardware. Instead, a process replaces the role of the underlying hardware for the pseudo terminal session. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pseudo terminal"

RoboHelp is a Help authoring tool (HAT) created by the eHelp Corporation and now owned by Adobe following the acquisition of Macromedia. The software is used by technical writers to create computer help files in various formats, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "RoboHelp"

Script-Fu is a scripting extension for the GIMP. ...more on Wikipedia about "Script-Fu"

Technical communicators use a variety of tools to create useable information. Often referred to as a "tool set", there is no defined list of tools that are used by all technical writers. However, broad categories of tools are used by most technical writers and communicators. ...more on Wikipedia about "Technical communication tools"

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a "dumb" video terminal within some other display architecture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Terminal emulator"

A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ...more on Wikipedia about "Text editor"

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