TextMaker for Pocket PCs
"Since the HTC Advantage has such a large display
and accommodating hard drive I think it makes a perfect mobile
writing platform and to really help turn the device into a
UMPC/laptop replacement you need to try the SoftMaker Office Suite
that gives you a full desktop quality and feature packed word
processor (TextMaker) and spreadsheet application (PlanMaker). I plan
to take a deeper look at these powerful applications in the near future."
Matthew Miller in the ZDNet Blog
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"This German software is miles ahead of Word
Mobile, the word processor shipping with each Pocket PC."
Where Word Mobile fails miserably, TextMaker roars
ahead. This application inserts pictures
into the text, creates tables, and is also able to append tables of
contents, indices, or bibliographies to your documents.
Summary: TextMaker makes
Word Mobile look even lousier than it already is."
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"com!" magazine,
PDA & Smartphone edition 12/2006
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"TextMaker is the word processor your Pocket
PC was meant to have. It's not only the
most robust program of its type we've ever seen on a handheld PC, it
can open and save documents in a variety of formats – including
Word (all versions, from 6.0 to XP), Pocket Word, Rich Text Format,
and even HTML 4.0.
What's more, it's remarkably easy to use, with icons
that actually look like their function and menus that closely
resemble those of a desktop word processor. Hey,
Microsoft – steal this program!"
Handheld Computing Magazine
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"TextMaker is the most feature-packed word
processor to be developed for the Pocket PC platform and it has all
the features that you would expect to find
on a high-end PC word processor
(and a few more besides)."
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10/10 |
PDA Essentials, UK, 8/2002 issue
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"TextMaker is an impressive word processing
application with the potential to be a killer-app
for mobile professionals."
Jim McCarthy, pocketanywhere.com
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Overall, TextMaker is a true wonder of a program.
Given a portable keyboard, I would be happy to create a long and
complicated document with this application without fear of missing a
feature or losing my work. In its efficient use of space (both
storage and screen) and equally efficient programming, it stretches
the limited platform of the Pocket PC to new limits. In
sheer power alone it happily leaves its rivals in the dust:
in fact, I’d go so far as to say that this is the
most important PPC program now available
for almost any mobile professional.
Anthony Newman for infosync.no
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PlanMaker for Pocket PCs
"People who need to edit Excel sheets on the
road, have currently no alternative to PlanMaker."
c't 26/2004
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"If you need the functions and flexibility that
you only find in spreadsheets for desktop computers, you should
definitely have a closer look at PlanMaker."
Notebook, Organizer &
Handy 2/2004
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"The first alternative to Pocket Excel,
PlanMaker, is a handheld spreadsheet application like no other.
PlanMaker incorporates a feature list that would look impressive for
a desktop spreadsheet application, and on a
PDA is nothing short of staggering. All the
features most obviously missing from Pocket Excel are there:
graphing, spell checking, templates, and so on. Even more impressive
is the array of advanced features you'd
probably never expect to see on a handheld,
such as a full set of onsheet drawing tools, goal seeking,
conditional formatting, outlining and syntax highlighting. [...]
In short, if you can do it on your desktop
spreadsheet, there's a very good chance you can now do it on your
Pocket PC too. Equally important for power users, you can forget the
frustration of having Pocket Excel lose even the most basic
formatting when syncing with your desktop spreadsheets. [...]
PlanMaker is exactly what power users have been
waiting for, and, for those who rely
heavily on their spreadsheets, may even be enough to make them switch
platforms from Palm OS or Symbian devices, where such spreadsheeting
power simply doesn't exist."
Palmtop User Magazine
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"If you do serious number crunching and would
like to take it with you, then PlanMaker is a must-buy.
It's the only option out there and it's very good. If you arm your
Pocket PC with one of the fold-out keyboards there would be no
difference between PlanMaker and Excel except for the omission of the mouse.
SoftMaker has raised the bar again, first with
TextMaker, and now with PlanMaker. I doubt any other company will
touch these guys for quite some time."
pocketnow.com
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SoftMaker Office for Pocket PCs
"TextMaker
and PlanMaker
support both their own formats of their desktop applications as well
as Word- and Excel documents.
People who want to get their documents faithfully back
to the PC after editing them on the PDA, will find TextMaker
and PlanMaker as
suitable solutions for Pocket PCs."
Heise.de February 2006
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"This software helps business professionals leave
their bulky laptops at home. With TextMaker and PlanMaker, one can
truly call the Pocket PC a real desktop replacement. This software
blows every other Pocket PC software out of the water in terms of
desktop compatibility and the plethora of functions it offers."
Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine
Best Software Award 2006
More quotes (Windows and Linux)
"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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"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 |
