Thursday, May 23, 2002
A rich office suite for Windows CE is on the way!
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 04:42 AM
http://www.softmaker.de/anywhere/anyce,en.htm
SoftMaker Office is on the way, and they have a beta ready to go of their word processor called TextMaker. But don't get too excited yet. It only works on the Handheld PC, including the H/PC Pro and H/PC 2000 devices. Nothing for Pocket PC's.
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"Spell-checker? Graphics? Footnotes? No problem. Tables? Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting? Glossary? At your fingertips. The Windows CE version has almost all of the features the desktop version of TextMaker offers!" Here is a short version of the feature list:
Documents can be opened and saved in numerous formats
TextMaker for Windows, PocketWord, Word for Windows (not included in this beta version), RTF, ASCII, Unicode
Direct document exchange with the desktop version of TextMaker
no conversion required, no loss of formatting
Sophisticated table support
Outliner
All character and paragraph formatting capabilities you can expect from a high-end word processor
Spell-checker, hyphenation, and thesaurus available in many different languages (beta version includes German and English only)
Insert images in numerous formats (including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF) and drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)
WOW!
Now that is a word processor. So, do you want this on your Pocket PC? Forget the full office suite for now, which I assume would include a powerful spreadsheet, presentation application and some sort of database. Just think about the word processor alone! How much would you pay for it? Please vote in the poll by selecting the comments link below and vote in the poll. Let's encourage SoftMaker to modify this to work on Pocket PC's! Thanks to Marc Zimmerman for the heads up. Attention Jeff Kirvin - you can only vote once! 
SoftMaker Office is on the way, and they have a beta ready to go of their word processor called TextMaker. But don't get too excited yet. It only works on the Handheld PC, including the H/PC Pro and H/PC 2000 devices. Nothing for Pocket PC's.
<!>"Spell-checker? Graphics? Footnotes? No problem. Tables? Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting? Glossary? At your fingertips. The Windows CE version has almost all of the features the desktop version of TextMaker offers!" Here is a short version of the feature list:
Documents can be opened and saved in numerous formats
TextMaker for Windows, PocketWord, Word for Windows (not included in this beta version), RTF, ASCII, Unicode
Direct document exchange with the desktop version of TextMaker
no conversion required, no loss of formatting
Sophisticated table support
Outliner
All character and paragraph formatting capabilities you can expect from a high-end word processor
Spell-checker, hyphenation, and thesaurus available in many different languages (beta version includes German and English only)
Insert images in numerous formats (including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF) and drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)
WOW!
Now that is a word processor. So, do you want this on your Pocket PC? Forget the full office suite for now, which I assume would include a powerful spreadsheet, presentation application and some sort of database. Just think about the word processor alone! How much would you pay for it? Please vote in the poll by selecting the comments link below and vote in the poll. Let's encourage SoftMaker to modify this to work on Pocket PC's! Thanks to Marc Zimmerman for the heads up. Attention Jeff Kirvin - you can only vote once!
