TextMaker?

[Tony Alfrey]

On Saturday 24 May 2003 06:57 pm, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >I first got their free version and then I bought their regular
> > version, mainly because I wanted to be able to seamlessly read and
> > write Word format documents and because I wanted to support a
> > company that was writing linux apps for the desktop.  It is really
> > quite decent and their support is good.
>
> And the "seamlessly read and write Word format" part is working?

To about the 95% level.  Some of the fonts are not the same, some of the 
specialty things like bullets (Wingdings or something??) so it 
shows/prints a different character, but otherwise stuff like formatting 
works well.  It works better at reproducing and creating a Word 
document than does Word on wine and much better than koffice (which 
only reads Word format but does not write) and much better than 
WordPerfect.  I used to use Star Office but it's been a while so I 
can't compare it with SO.
There are a few features that Word has that it does not have yet, but 
they (SoftMaker) say they intend to include more things in upgrades.
And it starts up very fast.
I don't use Word to its full capacity but I will get some Word files 
from my wife (who considers herself a Word expert and seemingly enjoys 
looking at the Blue Screen Of Death) and see if TextMaker can reproduce 
and edit them cleanly.

-- 
Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"