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A standalone SVG editor?
How about Inkscape? It is:
free and open source,
has a perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing,
can open a number of other vector formats, with the help of extensions,
can ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
If you work a lot with Notepad++ (GPLv2), you can install the MarkdownViewerPlusPlus plugin (MIT License):
(According to the Github page, this plugin works for 32 and 64 bits)
Alternativelly, you ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
Its not really simple and lightweight, but
You can use Visual Studio Code, it has a Markdown preview built-in. This way you can view the source and the rendered preview side-by-side.
To display images ...
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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
I have written Huge JSON viewer based on JSON.NET, one of the fastest JSON frameworks. It matches the requirements as follows:
open decently large files: it can open the 1.44 GB example file without ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I use Typora free (commercial license, not open source) markdown editor for Windows/Mac/Linux because it works very fast. The latest version of Typora is currently a beta version and it's free ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
Returning to this two years later, I definitely no longer recommend MarkdownPad. I use Visual Studio Code, same as the currently top-rated answer.
I use MarkdownPad. It's free for most use cases, but ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
As already mentioned I would go with Inkscape if you want a full featured SVG editor with great design capabilities and powerful tools.
If you want something simpler however, are looking for a web ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
CuteMarkEd is a free and open source markdown editor. It fits all listed requirements:
Simple and lightweight: Download the zip file extract and finished (no Installation required, Zip file is ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I like using one program for everything. I use SublimeText, which is free for evaluation just like WinRar, for almost any text editing purposes and there's almost always a plugin for a certain type of ...
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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
In case I want to open truly very large files (logs from application for example), then my preferred solution is to load this file into the local mongo database (it is for free) and then use some ...
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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
Disclaimer: I'm the author of JSONBuddy.
JSONBuddy can do all of this for you and even more:
Can open and edit very large JSON and text data (please use the Plus edition if you need to edit multi-GB ...
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Offline alternative to OneNote / Evernote
I've started using Joplin after OneNote managed to delete all my data.
It has a rich text editor built in but I'd recommend using the Markdown editor (write in Markdown with a WYSIWYG output to see ...
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Linux emoji input
Albert
Try albert with Python Extensions.
It looks good and modern. It works independent of any other program. You simply use a hotkey to call albert overlay, type : and then a substring of an emoji ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I mainly use other softwares on linux for my markdowns, but when I need to edit them in windows I use ghostwriter. It may lack some advanced features (e.g. external themes/fonts support), but it is a ...
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Offline Video Subtitle creator for Windows?
You have a couple of options:
Hard Subtitles
These are visible all of the time on the final video.
There are a few dependencies to install but MoviePy fits the bill neatly. You can even do the Star ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
Any semi-decent vector editing application should fulfil your requisites (except being free). In addition to the already mentioned Inkscape, Gravit Designer is a good choice (you can use it both in ...
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C# library to read PPTX files
Check out SyncFusion's DocIO and specifically https://www.syncfusion.com/products/file-formats/presentation
There is a community edition that you may qualify for (has a generous upper limit if you ...
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Change current date and time for a specific application only
The famous Nir Sofer (Nir Soft) has a tool called RunAsDate, it:
allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify.
This utility doesn't change the current system date and ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I would recommend Atom editor. You will need to install Markdown Preview but a big advantage is that there is large amount of additional plugins for handling markdown. The preview is opened via Ctrl + ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
There is also Mark Text. It's under MIT License. But I don't know if it falls into the anything else that requires usage of browser category!
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I can advertise a tool that I wrote in my spare time.
It is not exactly light weight, since it is based on the Electron framework (like VS Code and many others). But it is very simple, because it is ...
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Command line SQL formatter or beautifier
Prettier integrates with editors and Git, has a command-line interface, and a SQL plugin.
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Offline autocue (teleprompter) program for Windows?
QPrompt
https://qprompt.app/
https://github.com/Cuperino/QPrompt-Teleprompter
Teleprompter software for all video creators. Built with ease of use,
productivity, control accuracy, and smooth ...
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Small utility to generate SSHA passwords?
I know this question is fairly old, but I reached it by looking for a tool with those specific requirements.
I ended up at this web implementation: https://iguana.alerque.com/slappasswd.html
It's ...
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Offline map browser on Android with offline search
For people who are into hiking, I can recommend the Mapy.cz app. It meets all the Absolute requirements* and provides (offline option included) 'Cycling and hiking maps of the world with marked trails ...
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Offline map browser on Android with offline search
I am going to recommend Maps - Navigation & Transit by Google.
Based on your absolute requirements:
Runs on Android. Check
Provides downloadable offline maps for the places I
travel to. Check
I ...
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Lightweight contact manager for Linux with import & export feature
Old question but maybe someone needs an alternative.
See Evolution. Osmo seems lightweight but it seems not to support vCard so I ended up using Evolution.
It is not as "lightweight" as Osmo what ...
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Offline Code Snippet Manager
You can try BoostNote, which has organizer of snippets. Maybe it dont have categories, but it has "tags" to mark notes with names of smth.
It is free.
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Portable QR Code (QRcode) generation app for Windows
I’ve been using Zint Barcode Studio, it handles 50 different barcode formats including QRcode(2008), open source and portable (will exe from USB stick)!
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zint
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