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Adobe 

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AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.rpm

AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.tar.gz

Download AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Read more at Jabref Homepage. 

Download xpdf-3.02.tar.gz

Download xpdf-3.02-linux.tar.gz

If you need to uncompress a .rar archive in Linux, you can download a program called unrar.

Also see how to use unrar command. 

Bison 

Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You need to be fluent in C or C++ programming in order to use Bison.

For more information see Bison. 

Flex (The Fast Lexical Analyzer) is a fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text. Flex is a non-GNU free implementation of the well known Lex program.

For more information see Flex.

FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.

FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of features provided by FreeType 2.

• FreeType 2 provides a simple and easy-to-use API to access font content in a uniform way, independently of the file format. Additionally, some format-specific APIs can be used to access special data in the font file.

• Unlike most comparable libraries, FreeType 2 supports scalable font formats like TrueType or Type 1 natively and can return the outline data (and control instructions/hints) to client applications.

• The design of FreeType 2 is based on modules that can be either linked statically to the library at compile time, or loaded on demand at runtime. Modules are used to support specific font formats, or even new glyph image formats!

• FreeType 2 was written with embedded systems in mind. This means that it doesn't use static writable data (i.e., it can be run from ROM directly), and that client applications can provide their own memory manager and I/O stream implementation. The latter allows you to easily read from ROM-based, compressed or remote font files with the same API. Several stream implementations can be used concurrently with a single FreeType 2 instance. You can also reduce the size of the FreeType 2 code by only compiling the modules you need for your embedded project/environment.

• By default, FreeType 2 supports the following font formats.

  • TrueType fonts (and collections)
  • Type 1 fonts
  • CID-keyed Type 1 fonts
  • CFF fonts
  • OpenType fonts (both TrueType and CFF variants)
  • SFNT-based bitmap fonts
  • X11 PCF fonts
  • Windows FNT fonts
  • BDF fonts (including anti-aliased ones)
  • PFR fonts
  • Type 42 fonts (limited support)
• FreeType 2 supports all the character mappings defined by the TrueType and OpenType specification. It is also capable of automatically synthetizing a Unicode charmap from Type 1 fonts, which puts an end to the painful ‘encoding translation’ headache common with this format (of course, original encodings are also available in the case where you need them).

• The FreeType 2 core API provides simple functions to access advanced information like glyph names or kerning data.

 Download freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz

Download freetype-2.3.1.tar.bz2

Gvallows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter.

For more information see GV Homepage.

XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins since its release. Though the original release was made under a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code, it is now released under the GNU General Public License.

 For more information see XMMX Homepage.