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PlanMaker 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD – Calculate. Visualize. Present.
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SoftMaker Office 2006
for Linux and FreeBSD
Customers in the U.S. and Canada: US$ 79.95
If you purchase this software after April 1, 2008, you
are entitled to a free downloadable upgrade to SoftMaker Office 2008
for Linux (no release date yet). |
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Linux Format Magazine:
"If you practically live in Excel or have years
of legacy documents, this is is possibly the best option on Linux
short of acquiring CrossOver Office and Excel itself."
NewsForge.com:
"You won't find a more Excel-compatible
spreadsheet on any operating system." |
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Everybody has to calculate things every day: Check bank or tax
statements, do budgeting or sales forecasts, create comprehensive
financial models, compare mortgage offers for that great house you've
set your sight on...
PlanMaker 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD, the efficient
Excel-compatible spreadsheet in SoftMaker
Office 2006, does all of the above with ease.
Calculate.
More than 320 calculation functions are built in. They cover
date and time calculations, mathematics, statistics, financial maths,
numeric conversions, and data analysis. But PlanMaker does not stop
there: It not only solves financial equations but also excels at
higher maths, has a comprehensive set of statistics functions, works
with complex numbers, and offers the full range of array functions.
PlanMaker is not limited to two dimensions: Create up to 256
sheets per file and do three-dimensional calculations. You can
easily reference cells in that vast amount of data by creating named
ranges and then accessing these ranges by their name.
Within worksheets, you can combine data into data ranges and analyze
them through statistical functions. Furthermore, you can sort
and transpose database ranges or select them by criteria via
AutoFilter and other filters. Data grouping hides single
values or intermediate results – similar to the outliner of a
word processor –, giving you a quick view at the results of your calculations.
Visualize.
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AutoShapes,
flowcharts,
fills, gradients
and much more
Flowcharts and
org charts made easy
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Creating complex calculations is only one part of the equation. If
you want to persuade your audience, you should make sure to create
visually pleasing worksheets that help you state your point.
PlanMaker has comprehensive formatting features: Cells can be
shaded in many different styles and have any kind of borders.
Multiple cells can be merged horizontally and vertically, and the
contents of cells are easily rotated. Conditional formatting
changes the layout of cells depending on their contents, and the AutoFormat
command creates attractive layouts for your worksheets at the press
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Repeating format styles can be saved as stylesheets and later
recalled through a simple menu choice.
PlanMaker supports drawing right on the worksheet: A complete AutoShapes
drawing module is built into PlanMaker, and our vast symbols library
complements it. This means that you can not only create simple
geometric shapes, but also intricate flowcharts and org charts –
sticky connectors included!
Freehand drawing is possible just as well: Create a sketch
like in a graphics program. Also, every one of these shapes (be they
shapes, drawings, or even text art) can be filled with colors, linear
and radial gradients, bitmap patterns, etc.
Present.
Charting turns numbers into pictures. Great charting convinces
your audience. PlanMaker's charting engine helps you create great
charts with ease. Choose from any of the 70 different types of 2D
and 3D charts PlanMaker supports – in fact, any chart that can
be displayed by Microsoft Excel can also be created, edited, and
displayed by PlanMaker.
Even stock chart types like bar or column charts can be
spiffed up with color gradients, freely rotated in three-dimensional
space, or adorned with background pictures or patterns. Pie charts
support tearing out slices and combining slices and creating
sub-charts from them. Surface, bubble, or pyramidal charts? PlanMaker
is up to the task! Trend lines? No problem for PlanMaker!
Authentic Conversion of Microsoft Excel Files
PlanMaker reads and writes Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0,
95, 97, 2000, XP, Excel 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh) with the
highest fidelity, ensuring easy and safe file exchange with Microsoft
Excel users.
We have spent a huge amount of time perfecting our Excel filter. The
result is a filter so accurate that you can even set PlanMaker's
default saving format to "Microsoft Excel".
Download the free trial version
Do you want to try out SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD?
Here are the free trial versions:
Features
Easy data exchange
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Direct document exchange with PlanMaker 2006
for Windows, Pocket PCs, and Windows CE |
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Seamless document exchange with Microsoft
Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, Excel XP, and Excel 2003
as well as Microsoft Excel for Apple Macintosh |
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Visual Basic macros in Excel worksheets are preserved. |
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Read and write of password protected Excel files |
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Import and export dBASE databases and other formats |
Comprehensive calculations
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More than 320 calculation functions |
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Supports complex numbers and array functions |
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Up to 16384 rows, 256 columns and 256 worksheets per document |
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Numbers can be formatted as currency, with fixed
decimal places, thousands separators, as percentage values, as
fractions, as dates and times, etc. |
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NEW: Improved
international currency support |
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Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but
25:00), negative times possible |
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Goal seeker
(solver) |
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Syntax highlighting |
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Freeze rows and columns |
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AutoFill with smart series recognition |
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Named ranges |
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Cell comments with arbitrary text formatting |
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NEW: Easy-access
Goto button |
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NEW: Quickly
select cell ranges from dialogs |
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Cell and sheet protection against accidental or
deliberate modification etc. |
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Read and write protection for documents, encryption |
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Nearly unlimited Undo/Redo |
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NEW: Create forms
with input fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists etc. |
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NEW: Input validation |
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Sheet creation
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Cell and character style sheets |
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Transfer formatting with the format brush |
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AutoFormat: Formatting with a mouse click |
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Conditional formatting |
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Cell rotation and merging |
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Cell borders, shades, fill patterns |
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Centering across columns |
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Footers and headers (NEW:
separately for left/middle/right) |
Graphics and drawings
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Comprehensive drawing and graphic functions integrated:
drawing directly in the work sheet |
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Insert pictures in all common formats, freehand
drawings, rectangles, circles etc. |
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All drawings fully compatible with Microsoft Excel's AutoShapes |
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Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images
directly inside PlanMaker |
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Drawings can be filled with colors, patterns, bitmaps,
and color gradients |
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Arrange, flip, mirror objects |
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"Sticky" connector lines between objects |
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Comprehensive symbol library for
flow charts and org charts |
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Create font effects with the
TextArt module |
Present and visualize
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Powerful charting module lets you create
persuading charts |
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70 different chart types
(2D and 3D) |
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Import and export charts 1:1 from and to Microsoft Excel |
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Free rotation and distortion of 3D charts |
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Each chart element can be individually formatted with
any kind of filling pattern, color, or gradient |
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Apply any font type and style to each chart labeling |
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Unicode support
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NEW: PlanMaker
2006 is now Unicode-enabled. It can be used for creating
worksheets in all Western, Central European and Baltic languages,
Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. |
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NEW: The Insert
> Symbol dialog gives you access to the
full Unicode character set. |
Data analysis
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Create database ranges within worksheets |
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Data grouping (outliner) |
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Sort, filter by condition, AutoFilter |
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Database functions for sum, average, variance etc. |
Extras
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Spell-checking in 17 languages |
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NEW: Hyphenation
in 33 languages |
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NEW: Menus and
dialogs can be shown in 9 languages (switchable on-the-fly) |
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Detailed English manual (590 pages in PDF format). Download |
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Free support (by phone, postal mail, e-mail, web forum) |
System requirements
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Linux: Any Linux for PCs with glibc 2.2.5 or
higher, X Window system with any Window Manager |
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FreeBSD: FreeBSD 5.2 or higher, X Window system
with any Window Manager |
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Memory (RAM): 32 MByte |
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