SoftMaker Office 2010
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"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
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"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 |
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"We recommend TextMaker and PlanMaker without reservation."
WINdorado |
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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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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"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
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"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
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"The enormous feature-richness at minimal
hardware requirements speaks for PlanMaker as an Excel alternative."
PC Professionell
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"PlanMaker provides Excel feeling –
without the bloat and at a fair price."
PC-Direkt
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"PlanMaker is a powerful and fast calculation
program with an outstanding price/performance ratio. Quick to
install, easy to learn."
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