Technical communication tools

free and open-source 3D computer graphics software

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP ( ; always stylized in capitals; formerly, The GIMP), is a free and open-source raster graphics editor.

word processor software part of Microsoft 365

raster graphics editor with limited vector graphics and 3D graphics editing capabilities

presentation application by Microsoft

computer software used to edit plain text documents

set of application software to view, edit and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF)

diagramming and vector graphics software application

collection of graphics editing, video editing and web development software released and marketed by Adobe Inc. which has now been discontinued after the release of the Adobe Creative Cloud

Apple-made presentation software

PDF reader

software as a service offering from Adobe Inc.

DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language. It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. It is often recommended as a more lightweight, easier to customize alternative to MediaWiki. The 'Doku' in DokuWiki is short for Dokumentation which in German means documentation.

raster graphics editor

program that emulates a video terminal

DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.

collaboration software

Xpdf is a free and open-source PDF viewer and toolkit based on the Qt framework. Versions prior to 4.00 were written for the X Window System and Motif.

document processor for the production and manipulation of large structured documents

Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) and as a basis for publishing workflows. It was created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

presentation and vector graphics program

GIMPshop was a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to imitate the look and feel of Adobe Photoshop.

thumb|Pseudoterminals as they are used by the script (Unix)|script Unix command that records user's input for replaying it later

software for modifying XML documents

Defunct presentation software sold by Adobe Systems

software to assist technical writers in producing "help" documents

PDFedit is a free PDF editor for Unix-like operating systems (including Cygwin on top of Windows). It does not support editing protected or encrypted PDF files or word processor-style text manipulation, however.

Interleaf, Inc. was a company that created computer software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Founded in 1981, its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphics editing, producing WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") output at near-typeset quality. It also had early products in the document management, electronic publishing, and Web publishing spaces. Interleaf's "Active Documents" functionality, integrated into its text and graphics editing products in the early 1990s, was the first to give document cr

Help authoring tool for Microsoft Windows

forms authoring software tool