ADOBE ALTERNATIVES

BY: YUE SUN, YIWEI MA

ADOBE PRODUCTS

• Acrobat
• AfterEffects
• Air
• Bridge
• Dreamweaver
• Fireworks
• Flash
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Lightroom
• Photoshop
• PremiereElememt
s
• PremierePro
• Soundbooth
• And many more
 PHOTOSHOP ALTERNATIVES

VS.

• Corel PaintShop Pro

• XnView
• Picasa
 COREL PAINTSHOP PRO

• For a photographer
or amateur designer,
Paint Shop Pro offers
almost the same
capacities as
Photoshop does

• Functionality can be
extended by
Photoshop-compatible
plugins.

• Faster than PS
• More user-friendly

• 89.99 USD
 XNVIEW

• can read more than 400

file formats (including
audio and video files)

• Basic functionality

• supporting 44
languages

• Free
 COMPARISONS

Price
10

Service and
0 Functionality
Support
Photoshop

PaintShop
Pro
User XnView
Experience
 ILLUSTRATOR ALTERNATIVES

Vector Graphics Editor

computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector
graphics images interactively on a computer, and save them in
one of many popular vector graphics formats.
 CORELDRAW

Industry-standard editor, largely used in the graphic design,

sign making and fashion design industries.
 CORELDRAW

Major differences from Illustrator:

Extensive array of more than 50 import and export
filters
On-screen and dialog box editing
The ability to create multi-page documents.

Features:
The creation and execution of VBA macros
Viewing of color separations in print preview mode
Integrated professional imposing options.
 INKSCAPE
Free and open source vector editor whose primary native format is SVG

Especially popular on Linux.

Officially import SVG, SVGZ, AI, and PDF and export SVG, SVGZ, PDF, PostScript,
EPS, EPSi, LaTeX and POVRay.

Some formats have additional support through Inkscape extensions, including PDF,
EPS, Adobe Illustrator, and Sketch.
 ILLUSTRATOR ALTERNATIVES

General information
Creator First Released Latest version List price (USD)

Adobe
Adobe Systems 1987 CS4 (14) $599, $199 upgrade
Illustrator

CorelDRAW Corel 1989 X4 (14) $429, $199 upgrade

Inkscape Inkscape Team 2003 0.47 (Nov 2009) Free (Open Source)
ILLUSTRATOR ALTERNATIVES

Operating system support

Windows Mac OS X Unix

Adobe
Yes Yes No
Illustrator
CorelDRAW
Yes Dropped (v. 11) Dropped (v. 9)
Graphics Suite

Inkscape Yes Yes Yes

 ILLUSTRATOR ALTERNATIVES

Basic features
Color
Maximum page Maximum
management Scripting support
size zoom
for print
Adobe 5.7785 X 5.7785
6,400% Yes Yes
Illustrator m

CorelDRAW 45.72 X 45.72 m ≈ 45,000% Yes Yes

Inkscape 304.8 X 304.8 km 25,600% No Yes

 ILLUSTRATOR ALTERNATIVES
Vector file formats: Import
AI CDR ODG PS/EPS PDF SVG SWF DXF WMF/EMF

Adobe
Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Illustrator

CorelDRAW Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Partia
Inkscape Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
l
Vector file formats: Export
TT/T1
AI CDR ODG PS/EPS PDF SVG SWF LaTeX DXF WMF/EMF
fonts
Adobe
Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Illustrator
CorelDRA
Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
W
Parti Parti
Inkscape Partial Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes No
al al
 PDF CREATOR

PDF Creator is an application for converting

documents into pdf format on Microsoft
Windows operating systems.
PDF CREATOR
Features:

• Create PDFs from any program that is able to

print

• Send generated files via eMail

• Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are

the author and the file has not been modified

• Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being

opened, printed etc

• AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on

Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time
etc.
 WIN2PDF
Features

• Create documents from any

Windows application that
supports printing in the following
formats: PDF, PDF/A, XPS, TIFF,
SVG

• Merge PDF documents to the

beginning or end of an existing
PDF file.

• Integrate with Outlook, Outlook

Express, or other MAPI e-mail
clients to automatically attach
created files to e-mail messages.

• Custom Windows applications

including Visual Basic
applications can easily interface
with Win2PDF and can control
the created document file name
without user intervention.
Key Features

• Create PDFs from 300+ file types

• Edit PDF files, including text, graphics and

pages

• Streamlined integration with Microsoft Windows

and Microsoft Office for quick and easy PDF
creation

• Combine files together from multiple

applications

• Convert PDF to Microsoft Word, RTF, text and

images Digitally sign, certify and secure PDF
files

• Review documents electronically with sticky

notes, stamps, drawings, and markup tools
•
• Fill in, print and submit forms, or design and
collect information via your own forms
Create, combine and Edit PDF files, including text,
convert PDF files graphics and pages
Collect information accurately
with PDF forms

Secure & digitally sign

Annotate and review
electronically
 DREAMWEAVER

VS.

• MS Expression Web
• NVU
• KompoZer
MS EXPRESSION WEB

• a WYSIWYG HTML
editor and general web
design program by
Microsoft.

• PHP, HTML/XHTML,
XML/XSLT, CSS,
JavaScript, ASP.NET and
ASP.NET AJAX,
Silverlight, Flash,
Photoshop files

• extensive drag-and-drop
features

• Able to install add-ons

from third-party
developers
NVU

• A WYSIWYG editor

• Easy for novice users

and does not require
any knowledge of
HTML or CSS to use.

• Development of Nvu
has been discontinued.

• Free
KOMPOZER

• KompoZer is an open
source WYSIWYG HTML
editor based on the now-
discontinued Nvu editor.

• The same standards

based functionality

• FTP support

• Free
 COMPARISONS

Price
10

Service and
0 Functionality
Support

Dreamweaver

MS Expression Web
User
Experience NVU

KompoZer
 REFERENCES:
• http://groundwire.org/support/articles/alternatives-to-
adobe
• http://paintshoppro.info/tutorials/paintshoppro_vs_ph
otoshop.htm
• http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/XnView-
Review-11529.shtml
• http://mediadesigner.digitalmedianet.com/articles/vie
warticle.jsp?id=43025-1&afterinter=true
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics_editor
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vector_graphics_e
ditors
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_gr
aphics_editors
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
• http://www.daneprairie.com/products/win2pdf.htm
• http://www.nitropdf.com