Are there any Ubuntu-based equivalents of Corel Draw, PageMaker, PhotoShop and Quark Express

Question

Are there any Ubuntu based application for the below listed softwares.

• Corel Draw - latest version

• PageMaker - Latest version

• Photoshop - Latest version

• Quark Express - latest version

Answer 1

Photoshop is a raster graphic editor. Ubuntu has Gimp and Krita

PageMaker and QuarkXPress are both desktop publishing applications. It's interesting you mentioned those because Adobe InDesign is currently a clear leader among commercial applications in this area. Open-source equivalents are Scribus, KWord and (to some extent) Lyx

CorelDraw is a vector editor. In Ubuntu, Inkscape provides similar functionality.

Answer 2

These are the best alternatives to the softwares you have listed above:

1) CorelDraw - Inkscape, Xara Xtreme and Scribus (for desktop publishing only)

2) Pagemaker - Scribus, Lucidpress and Spring Publisher

3) Photoshop - GIMP, Krita, CinePaint and Pinta

4) Quark Express - Same alternatives as Pagemaker and probably CorelDraw too.

Source: I manage a website which publishes free and open source alternatives to commercial softwares so I have to research about lot of softwares. You can check it here.

Answer 3

I would also like to add MyPaint as an alternative to Gimp and Krita for raster painting. And though a bit dated at this point Xara Extreme is an alternative to Inkscape for Vector Graphics. Still perfectly usable for most tasks.

Answer 4

... Scribus for page layout. Not exactly pagemaker though, probably better. Not sure how it compares these days to Quark these days. Or InDesign for that matter.