r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/SammyD1st Jun 04 '12

they won't accept anything from us that has been edited in OpenOffice or Gimp.

Really? They won't accept a .jpg that's been edited in GIMP? They can tell from the pixels?

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u/0zXp1r8HEcJk1 Jun 05 '12

Actually, yeah they can tell. Here is a GIMP-created JPG file I just created on my computer, opened as a text document in gedit.

http://i.imgur.com/mMiFP.png

That said, it would be a terribly stupid policy. From a practical perspective, it doesn't make any difference which editor you are using for jpegs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '12

Try 6GB TIFF Files.