Technical Communication Tools: Gimp, Microsoft Word, Text Editor, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, Paint Shop Pro, Blender, DocBook

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: GIMP, Microsoft Word, Text editor, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, Paint Shop Pro, Blender, DocBook, Terminal emulator, Interleaf, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Paint.NET, Barco Creator, Microsoft Visio, IETM, ARIS Express, Keynote, Document comparison, XMetaL, XML editor, GIMPshop, Pseudo terminal, Adobe LiveCycle Designer, Flash for Linux, DokuWiki, OpenOffice.org Impress, QFX, HelpNDoc, Creately, LucidChart, Digitalsoft Keypoint, Xpdf, Harvard Graphics, Retriever Communications, Help & Manual, IBM Lotus Freelance Graphics, RUMBA, Linotype-Hell DaVinci, Adobe Persuasion, AuthorIT, PDFedit, ScreenShot Direct, MadCap Software, Help authoring tool, Barco Strike!, GimPhoto, Hyper Publish, Help Generator, Cacoo, Apache Forrest, PaperKiller, SAP Knowledge Warehouse, CaseComplete, VCN ExecuVision, Document processor, Dalim Tango, Barco ColorTone, HyperText Studio, GX Text, RELOAD, PixBuilder Photo Editor. Excerpt: Microsoft (Office) Word is a commercial word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple Macintosh (1984), the AT&T Unix PC (1985), Atari ST (1986), SCO UNIX, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows (1989). It is a component of the Microsoft Office software system; it is also sold as a standalone product and included in Microsoft Works Suite. The current versions are Microsoft Office Word 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office Word 2011 for Mac. In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC. Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi-Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern...