Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 4, 2007 @05:44PM from the sure-the-gimp-has-a-plugin dept.

jsepeta writes "I've been using Adobe products for years, and own several older versions of the products from their Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro, and Dreamweaver. I'd like to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford $2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite and, frankly, shouldn't need to because there should be competitive products on the market. But I can't seem to locate software for graphic design and printing that outputs CMYK files that printing companies will accept. And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design. Any suggestions? Our company is notoriously frugal and would certainly entertain the idea of using open source products if we could implement them in a way that doesn't infringe upon our Microsoft-centric hegemony / daily work tasks in XP."

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They by Disharmony2012 · 2007-06-04 17:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

have not switched to Vista yet? =O
Re:The first rule of The GIMP by drawfour · 2007-06-04 20:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Watch how many moderation points get blown on this here comment :P I'm guessing two. On the other hand, I'm guessing that exactly 0 mod points will be wasted modding this reply.