Home Products Projects Support Shop About us SoftMaker Office Font Collections CD Labeling NEW: 2012 for Windows 2010 for Linux 2010 for Windows Mobile 2010 for Windows CE Overview – TextMaker – PlanMaker – Presentations In the Press Downloads       Academic Pricing | Blog | Forum | Resellers | Site Map | Contact us | Your Feedback    Free fonts: www.freefont.de     What the Press Says About SoftMaker Office for Linux SoftMaker Office 2010 "Kiss Microsoft Office Goodbye: It's a New Year, time to break bad old habits and make vows to live a better life. I can't help you lose weight or stop smoking, but I do have one suggestion: Break the habit of using Microsoft Office. [...] I've tested all three suites for compatibility with Microsoft Word and Excel by making up fairly complex documents and then importing them into the corresponding alternative applications. The imported documents contained charts, text and picture boxes and drawing objects. By and large, they all did well on relatively simple documents. On more complex documents, SoftMaker Office, the product of a tiny software company based in Germany, really stood out. It did a great job importing graphics and tables that tripped up OpenOffice and Zoho. Why spend $279 on Microsoft's behemoth Office 2010 suite when you can get a slick, lightning fast alternative for less than one-third of the price?" CIO Magazine   SoftMaker Office 2008 "The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org. SoftMaker Office shows superior compatibility with Microsoft Office formats, while OpenOffice.org 3.1 falls flat. With its TextMaker application, SoftMaker has achieved what the combined forces of Sun Microsystems and the whole of the free open source community could not: reliably exchanging data files with Microsoft Word." InfoWorld ... "It's the best word processor and spreadsheet program you can get for the Linux platform, and is the functional replacement for Microsoft Office on non-Windows PCs." softwareinreview.com ... "SoftMaker Office is a well-designed office suite at an affordable price. It is an attractive proposition for all users coming from Microsoft Office." Computerwoche ... "SoftMaker Office represents an improved, more powerful Microsoft Office 2003, but built with ease and speed at every turn in its interface and engine. Most people will want exactly that, especially those not willing to relearn everything with Microsoft Office 2007." The Great Software Blog ... "We recommend TextMaker and PlanMaker without reservation." WINdorado    TextMaker "Imagine taking the best and most-used features of Word 2003, vastly expanding its document creation power, and throwing in a healthy dose of perfectionism throughout the user interface. Forget your imagination and just check out TextMaker. I'm betting you'll love it because it will never slow you down." donationcoder.com ... "It's stable, capable, and lightweight, but its crowning feature is still its superior file format compatibility with Microsoft Word. [...] So, right off the bat, I was extremely impressed with TextMaker 2006." softwareinreview.com ... "In a nutshell: it's fast, inexpensive, and works with Word documents flawlessly. [...] In general TextMaker was a very enjoyable word processor to use. ... With TextMaker there is little to no learning curve if you're already familiar with any other word processing program." The Jem Report ... "TextMaker is one of those gems ... that those who do not love them are those who have not used them. ... It really deserves to become the standard Linux word processor. It blows everything else written for Linux -- indeed, everything else I've seen that's currently published for any platform -- clear out of the water. But it's not just good by comparison. It is one of the best word processors -- maybe the best word processor -- I've ever used." Dennis E. Powell, Linux and Main ... "The speed with which the program launches catches the eye. The TextMaker interface pops up immediately on modern machines, and TextMaker runs smoothly even on older hardware. "The MS Word document import function worked very well, importing even complex layouts." Linux Magazine ... "We had no problems importing very detailed 35 to 110 page native MS Word documents with rich images, charts, symbols, and more without fail. The same document, saved as a '.doc' from StarOffice also imported into TextMaker without any issue. ..." "Our advice: Download the product as a great Office replacement for MS Word on Linux. TextMaker delivers a stable, and capable, word processor for the Desktop Linux user." desktoplinux.com ... "Perhaps the most appreciated feature will be the lossless round-trip conversion for Word documents, which worked without a hitch on all our formatted, footnoted and neat Word documents. Overall, TextMaker is a true wonder of a program."  Anthony Newman, infosync.no      PlanMaker "Exacting Excel compatibility is an absolute requirement for some would-be Linux switchers, so SoftMaker Office is the logical choice over OpenOffice.org." Paul Hudson, Linux Format ... "You won't find a more Excel-compatible spreadsheet on any operating system, but Microsoft compatibility is far from PlanMaker's only worthwhile feature. PlanMaker is both smaller in size and faster to start than most of the other spreadsheet applications I've used. One particularly data-heavy test case with a single large chart took only 10 seconds to load, while the same worksheet took more than a minute to load in StarOffice 7 Calc. Compatibility with other programs is where PlanMaker really shines. SoftMaker has a page detailing its Excel compatibility features. While you have to take a manufacturer's propaganda with a grain of salt, my own analysis of the test cases shows them to be completely accurate and as-advertised." Jem Matzan, NewsForge ... "Compatibility with Microsoft products is higher than it is with OpenOffice. The speed is definitely there. PlanMaker works well in a low memory environment, better than either OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. [...] PlanMaker also has some interesting drawing tools. In fact, from my perspective they are good enough to rough out an ER diagram or flowchart. Easy to use, easier than what Excel has as a matter of fact, and simple with plenty of screen control and mouse manipulation to make resizing an object simple and moving connected entities easy." Daniel Christle, WindoWatch ... "The enormous feature-richness at minimal hardware requirements speaks for PlanMaker as an Excel alternative." PC Professionell ... "PlanMaker provides Excel feeling – without the bloat and at a fair price." PC-Direkt ... "PlanMaker is a powerful and fast calculation program with an outstanding price/performance ratio. Quick to install, easy to learn." CHIP          © 2011 SoftMaker Software GmbH       Pricing includes VAT for customers inside the EU. Add shipping & handling.