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Posted by: Bill Landon on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 Provided by: FreeTranslation.com |
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| TextMaker for Pocket PCs is shipping |
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Pocket PC owners expect
their mobile organizers to let them open, work on, and save
Microsoft Word documents, with content and formatting kept intact.
Pocket Word, after all, is marketed by Microsoft as the mobile
companion to the desktop edition of Microsoft Word.
Reality check: Pocket Word's feature set could be, to put it mildly, described as "lightweight". "Anemic" might be a better term. Pocket Word may be suitable for jotting down a note, but definitely not for sophisticated word processing: No headers or footers. No tables. No outliner. No on-the-fly spell-checking. Severely limited text formatting. No styles. Image support? Barely existent. Document conversion from and to Microsoft Word "technically" works but has a devastating effect on documents: As soon as you move a .DOC file to a Pocket PC, all features that Pocket Word cannot cope with are stripped and thrown away. Not much more formatting than bold, italic, and underlining survives. It doesn't take much to develop a better word processor than
Pocket Word, but just-released TextMaker for Pocket PCs does
not stop there. In fact, TextMaker has it all: Multi-language
spell-checker. Spell-checking on the fly. Graphics. Footnotes.
Tables. Sophisticated character and paragraph formatting.
Paragraph and character styles. Autotext -- and lossless
conversion of Microsoft Word .DOC files right on your Pocket PC.
TextMaker for Pocket PCs is the most comprehensive word processor ever developed for Windows CE. Imagine that: Desktop-class word processing on your Pocket PC! TextMaker for Pocket PCs retails for US$49.95 (EUR 59.95). A bundle of TextMaker for Pocket PCs with the desktop version TextMaker for Windows is available for only US$69.95 (EUR 79.95). TextMaker is the first completed component of SoftMaker Office anywhere, a mobile office suite for Windows, Windows CE, and Linux which also comprises a Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet, a database package, and a PIM/groupware combo. SoftMaker Office anywhere will be available in "regular" desktop and mobile editions as well as a client/server edition running over the LAN or Internet. The components of SoftMaker Office anywhere will be released step-by-step in 2003. For additional information visit: www.softmaker.de/tmp_en.htm |
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