Best Free Home & Office Software for Linux

Office Suite

• OpenOffice 3: "Covers the basics of office document creation: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, a desktop database. It allows you to save your documents in many choices of file formats so you'll have no problem exchanging documents with MS Office.

PDF Writer

• CUPS-PDF: Creates a virtual PDF printer to convert a file printed in queue to PDF and save it in a user directory. 

PDF Reader

• Okular: More than a viewer for pdf and other document formats including postscript, djvu, tiff, chm, dvi, xps, odf and so on. It can be used on both KDE and GNOME desktop environments, with features for annotations, highlighting, drawing lines and shapes, adding textboxes and stamps, selecting and saving a part of documents as text or in an image format.
• Evince: A document viewer for pdf and other document formats including postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi, aiming to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
• Foxit Reader: Small size, user-customized toolbar, fast launch speed, full screen capabilities, snapshot, zoom, thumbnails and other features. 

PDF Tools

• PDF-Shuffler: "Presents you with the pages of files in thumbnails so that you can easily merge, re-order or delete the pages, or right-click a thumbnail to rotate or crop a page before exporting to a new pdf file.
• Sun PDF Import Extension: "Allows you to import and modify PDF documents in OpenOffice from a PDF/ODF hybrid file with 100% layout accuracy."

Personal Finance

• GnuCash: "Double entry accounting, keep tabs of budgets, create various accounts in each category, full suite of standard and customizable reports.

Personal Information Management

• Calgoo: "Works very well as a stand-alone program, and it can also synchronize your data across computers. In addition to Calgoo's native calender you can synchronize Google, Outlook, 30 Boxes and generic (*.ics format) calendars.
• Chandler: "Excellent task management, with "triage" (presents tasks and events in "now", "later" and "done" categories). Imports external SMTP email accounts, Google calendars and Highrise tasks. Exports calendars and tasks. Email messages can be edited, added to, and sent directly from Chandler.

Notes Organizer

• KeepNote: "Stores notes in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting and images, full-text search.

Electronic Book Reader

• Calibre: "Includes an e-book viewer, library management, format conversion, news feeds, ebook conversion and sync features. A complete solution to all your e-book needs.

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