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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: 252,867 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: 2,409 This Week
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    AkelPad
    A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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    Downloads: 1,745 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: 993 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: 935 This Week
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    Subtitle Workshop

    Subtitle Workshop

    Free subtitle editor

    Subtitle Workshop is a free application for creating, editing, and converting text-based subtitle files. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want.
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    Downloads: 1,291 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: 182 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: 479 This Week
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    WikidPad is a wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.
    Downloads: 85 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: 82 This Week
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    SynWrite

    SynWrite

    Advanced text editor for programmers and Notepad replacement.

    SynWrite is a free source code editor, HTML editor, and Notepad replacement for Windows systems. It is a full-featured alternative not only to simple Notepad, but also to professional editors.
    Downloads: 51 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: 42 This Week
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    biblatex
    Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities
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    Downloads: 42 This Week
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    DWDS/Dialing Concordance

    a collection of indexing and search tools for corpus linguists

    DWDS/Dialing Concordance (DDC) - a collection of index and search tools for corpus linguists
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    Downloads: 75 This Week
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    XML Tree Editor

    XML Tree Editor

    Basic cross-platform tree view XML editor

    XMLTreeEdit displays XML files as tree views and allows basic operations: adding, editting and deleting text nodes and their attributes. The main goal is providing a simple tool to create/edit XML configuration files for users without knowledge of XML. Built in Free Pascal Lazarus, which allows easy compilation for different target platforms. Currently binary executables were produced and tested on Windows (XP, 7) and Ubuntu Linux (GTK2). For developers: there are two units listed separately to support XML configuration files in your application: XMLfile.pas - Lazarus/Free Pascal uXMLConfig.pas - Delphi (2007..XE2)
    Downloads: 39 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: 34 This Week
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    Portable Apps For Dummies

    Portable Apps For Dummies

    Portable applications development. Makers, creators etc.

    Our site is created to collect in one place information about portable app development. We hope that people who need this information will find it on our site. We are not limited to one method of creating portable applications, we want to write about them all. If you know the methods that we don't have, let us know about them. And we will inform about them our visitors.
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    Downloads: 164 This Week
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    The goal of this tool is to simplify and accelerate the process of creating bookmarks for DjVu and PDF documents. You can see additional information on the project page.
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    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    NppCalc

    NppCalc

    plugin for evaluates the expressions in the Notepad++

    NppCalc - plugin for evaluates the expressions in the Notepad++ NppCalc used to work with math, trigonometry, statistics, combinatorics, arrays, sets, bits, strings, dates, color, image, measurement, file and folder, RS-232, TCP/IP, encoding, encryption, hashing, compression, etc, Over 400 functions. Q: How does this work? A: Just type function name and press Enter!
    Downloads: 52 This Week
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    XML Editor/Validator/Designer with CAMV

    XML Editor/Validator/Designer with CAMV

    CAM XML Editor for XML+JSON+Hibernate+SQL Open-XDX sponsored by Oracle

    The CAM editor is the leading open source XML Editor/Validation/Schema toolset for rapidly building / deploying XML /JSON /Hibernate /SQL data /Forms applications. Visual WYSIWYG data design, rule entry wizards + drag & drop dictionary components. Will import, analyze / refactor from XML Schema / JSON. Oracle is a proud enterprise sponsor; with NIEM.gov support. Do SQL data import/map+ Open Data API delivery+ Hibernate JPA + UI Forms/Pencil Makes XSD schema (default, flatten, NIEM, & OASIS modes) + JAXB bindings; Mindmap FreeMind or UML models(XMI); XML unit test & live SQL data; HTML docs + spreadsheets (NIEM IEPDs). Canonical component dictionaries from schema sets, SQL, JSON, ERwin XSD, or spreadsheets. The XML CAM templates (OASIS standard) store the exchange structure, content model, code lists, DBMappings, SQL lookups+business rules (XPath). Java CAMV XML/JSON validation engine is a complete exchange test framework [XMLUnit, TEAM(Schematron)]. Java/Eclipse +Saxon/XSL
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    Colorer Library
    Colorer provides source text syntax highlighting services. It colorizes source codes in editor systems (more than 200 syntaxes). Uses powerful HRC format(XML, RE, context free grammas), allowing to support any language. Available as Eclipse plugin.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    IniTranslator is a Windows tool for developers and users to simplify the translation and localization of ini style language files in a manner similar to how poEdit works. IniTranslator can also load and save other formats through its plugin interface.
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement. Tabbed environment, customizable editor, lines numbering. Keeping last sessions, bookmarks. Reloading documents "on-demand", outer changes tracking, sending documents as attachments and portability.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Notepad X
    Notepad X is an alternative open source text editor for Microsoft Windows, with a lot of customization options created to help users managing text documents featuring tab navigation.
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    Downloads: 19 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: 7 This Week
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