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There's also a paid one here. It says it's available for Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure, Keynote and PowerPoint, and the Illlustrator single license is apparently something like $24.
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If your needs are that simple, you can probably do what you need using the free, web-based and popular http://pixlr.com/ which supports PSD files.
It has a simpler interface and gentler learning curve for people familiar with photoshop than the obvious other free alternative GIMP (which you could always download any time you needed any more features or if ...
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As mentioned in my comment, I think Photoshop Elements 8 is a good investment for any cash-strapped company that needs to edit/view PSD files and work with designers who use Photoshop. However, Gimp and Paint.NET also support PSD files.
I'm not sure the extent to which they support them, but I think Gimp's support could be better than Pixelmator since Gimp ...
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XML is text. Any plain text editor will work. You simply don't want a rich text editor such as word.
You can use Text Edit, the default text application on the Mac OS. But you must go into its preferences and tell it to ignore RTF commands on open and save.
I prefer BBEdit from barebones.com. But that's merely my preference.
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As you can read in the iOS Human Interface Guidelines, you'll actually need quite a number of icons for the different devices/purposes. The iPad requires a different icon size, while the retina display introduced with the iPhone 4 doubles the resolution.
In your case you should look at the Application icon and/or the Web clip icon (which are luckily the ...
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From my answer here:
You need a font management tool of some kind to help you organize your fonts into sets of your liking. There are a number of them out there; Extensis Suitcase Fusion and FontXplorer Pro come to mind.
From the FontXplorer website...
Is font management for you? Font
management is for anyone who uses more
than just a handful of ...
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The source code compile nicely on my Mac with the Darwin configuration file. I use the MacPorts tools to install and maintains the libs. However i was forced to update a line of the source code in the file.c file, due to the changes in the libpng library :
Find the line which makes a function call to:
png_set_gray_1_2_4_to_8
and replace the call with
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I would recommend Mellel. It is not free, but it is cheap. I like their approach. The only way to style the text is by creating character styles and paragraph styles that you then use throughout the document. It is how you should work in all word processors, but many, notably Word, tempt you to work in wrong ways that are confusing, cumbersome, and give an ...
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What's the final delivery method? Print? digital - epub - webpages? all of the above?
For print... if you're looking for fairly cheap on the Mac, you could use Pages. It's not overly robust but will handle most general needs. Then there's always Word/OpenOffice/NeoOffice as well.
FOr digital, ebooks are basically html files merely packaged together. You ...
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