Pollen Alternatives

Pollen is described as 'Publishing system that helps authors create beautiful and functional web-based books. Pollen includes tools for writing, designing, programming, testing, and publishing' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are six alternatives to Pollen for Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD. The best Pollen alternative is LaTeX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pollen are Groff, SILE, DocBook and ConTeXt (Typesetting System).

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Pollen alternatives page was last updated Oct 31, 2024
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  1. LaTeX icon

    LaTeX

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    LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.

    16 LaTeX alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Document output

    LaTeX Features

    1.  Typesetting
    2.  LaTeX Equations
    3.  Export to PDF
    4.  Publishing
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Typography
    7.  Bibliography generator
    8.  Text formatting

    LaTeX VS Pollen

     

    • LaTeX is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Pollen.

    • LaTeX is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pollen.

    • LaTeX is Free and Open SourcePollen is also Free and Open Source
  2. Groff icon

    Groff

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    The groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Groff Features

    1.  Typesetting
    2.  Text formatting
    3.  Tables
    4.  Export to Postscript

    Groff VS Pollen

     
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    SILE

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    SILE is a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign, but seeks to be more flexible, extensible and programmable than them.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    SILE Features

    1.  Multiple languages
    2.  Grid layout
    3.  Typesetting

    SILE VS Pollen

     
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    DocBook

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    DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no...

    6 DocBook alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    DocBook Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown
    2.  Publishing

    DocBook VS Pollen

     

  6. ConTeXt (Typesetting System)

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    “a system for typesetting documents based on TEX and METAPOST. You can use this system for converting documents coded in TEX format as well as documents coded in XML into high quality PDF” (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/)

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    ConTeXt (Typesetting System) Features

    1.  Tex
    2.  Consistent commands
    3.  Typography

    ConTeXt (Typesetting System) VS Pollen

     

  7. Text::Amuse

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    Markup language for AMuseWiki.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Text::Amuse Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown
    2.  Text Based Format

    Text::Amuse VS Pollen

     
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