Software Resources - General Desktop

Name: Adobe Acrobat
Description: PDF creator and reader
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: AFPL Ghostscript
Description: Provides interpreters for the PostScript language and for PDF files. It also allows you to convert PostScript files to PDF and vice versa. The Ghostscript library is a set of C procedures that implement the graphics and filtering capabilities that are primitive operations in the PostScript language and in PDF.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center;Download version available at http://www.ghostscript.com
Help Tools: http://www.ghostscript.com
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Canvas
Description: Design and drawing software. Version 8 allows you to automate vector and image editing functions.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.deneba.com/products/canvas8
/default2.html
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: DeltaGraph
Description: Chart and graph builiding application with 80 chart types and 200 styles (both 2-D and 3-D)
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.rockware.com/catalog/pages
/deltagraphw.html
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: End Note
Description: Used to search online bibliographic databases, to organize references and images, and to create bibliographies and figure lists.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.endnote.com/eninfo.asp
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: FreeHand
Description: Illustration and layout software for print and Web.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.macromedia.com/software/freehand/
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: GSView
Description: Graphical interface for Ghostscript. (See Ghostscript entry.)
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center; Available online at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
Help Tools: http://www.ghostgum.com.au
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Illustrator
Description: Software for creating vector graphics
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator
/main.htm
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Irfanview
Description: Graphics viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 that provides support for animated GIFs, multipage TIFFs, and multiple ICOs
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center; Download version available at http://www.irfanview.com/
Help Tools: http://www.irfanview.com/
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Microsoft Office
Description: Suite of e-mail (Outlook), word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel) and presentation (PowerPoint) software.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: NIH Image
Description: Image processing and analysis program. Image can acquire, display, edit, enhance, analyze and animate images. It reads and writes TIFF, PICT, PICS and MacPaint files.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center; Download version available at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/about.html
Help Tools: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/about.html
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Omni Outliner
Description: Software for creating documents in outline form on the Macintosh.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Omnipage Pro
Description: Document conversion software that converts PDF files and paper documents into editable word processing and spreadsheet documents.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: PageMaker
Description: Page layout software. It includes template and graphic features as well as design tools.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker
/main.html
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Photoshop
Description: Photo manipulation software
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop
/main.html
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Prism
Description: Scientific Graphing Program
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: PuTTY
Description: SSH protocol utility to talk to Fred
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: SnagIt
Description: Captures screen images, text and printer output from Windows PCs. It includes an inline editor for image enhancement.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit
/default.asp
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: SSH (Secure Shell)
Description: (Now called SSH Sectia Server) Provides secure interactive file transfer and terminal emulation for servers running SSH Tectia Server or other applications that use the Secure Shell protocol.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.ssh.com/products/tectia/
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Toast
Description: Macintosh Software for burning DVDs and CDs.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast
/index.jhtml
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Visio Standard
Description: Used to create business and technical diagrams and flowcharts.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/prodinfo
/default.mspx
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


Name: Winzip
Description: File compression utility for Windows. The software zips both files and folder to save storage space or to reduce e-mail attachment sizes.
Location: Shared Resources Computer Center
Help Tools: http://www.winzip.com
Contact: Research Computing Support, rcs@fhcrc.org


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