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Eventmanagement

screen capture program

Make 3D stills, animations, and can even be used to do some more complex image manipulations with its excellent node compositing system. Invaluable once you get the hang of it.

it is the best out there for editing and creating complex PDF files. Can also create PDF forms

for brainstorming and creating a basic site map.

CamStudio, a fully-featured open source, screen-capturing tool.

If you ever need to edit fonts for your designs you may want to check out FontForge, a handy, open source font editor.

Opensource Flowchart designer

Inkscape is the premier open source vector graphics editor (much like its commercial counterparts, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW).

NOTEPAD++ is a very popular open source text editor for Windows. Though not strictly just for web designers, it has an excellent source code editor the supports HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript.

CSSED is a fully-featured GTK-2 based CSS editor that has a plugin system for utmost extensibility; check out some of the available plugins for CSSED.

Quanta Plus is a robust web development IDE. It’s highly-extensible and is able to run custom scripts. It has an excellent visual CSS editor that has code hints and auto-completion of syntax.

Bluefish Editor is a lightweight, fast editor for web designers and programmers.