RE: [Sheflug] Low overhead word processor

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08-Mar-03 Craig Andrews wrote:
> SoftMaker are allowing giving away free Beta versions of TextMaker,
> which is their cross platform word processing software.
> 
> http://www.softmaker.de/index,en.htm
> 
> I just had a go to see if it would be better that the usual crop of
> commercial Linux word processors, and it's blooming amazing. Starts in
> a matter of 1/2 a second on my Duron 1GHz, and it's so full featured
> it's scary (including anti-aliasing, a working UK english thesaurus,
> spreadsheet functionality in tables).
> 
> In addition, installation is a case of untar, run. No installation
> necessary.
> 
> Anyway, thought I'd mention it in case some of you might need an ultra
> low resource word processor and don't mind if you end up with a non-GPL
> one.

Thanks, Craig! An impressive piece of work. Only one thing really wrong
with it: It pretty faithfully gives you the impression you're using
MS Word -- nauseating! But it imports and exports word docs well (some
problems with graphics) so saves me opening stuff up in VMware. Does a
nice job of exporting to HTML. However, it sometimes segfaults when
importing HTML. But one can't expect perfection from a beta.

Cheers,
Ted.


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