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What the Press Says About SoftMaker Office for Windows 

SoftMaker Office

"The best cross-platform office suite I have yet used."

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 2/07

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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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"Recommended, compact office suite with very good filters for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel."

PC Professionell

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"Price/Performance: very good
Over-all rating: very good"

PC Magazin

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"Proves that office suite software can be useful and effective – and inexpensive at the same time!"

"Highly recommended"

Computer easy

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"We recommend TextMaker and PlanMaker without reservation."

WINdorado

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"An extremely inexpensive alternative to the conventional Microsoft Office offering"

Computer Partner

  

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 features is still its superior file format compatibility with Microsoft Word. [...]

So right off the bat, I was extremely impressed with TextMaker."

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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"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.

TextMaker provides the features you would expect in a modern graphical word processor.

"The MS Word document import function worked very well, importing even complex layouts."

Linux Magazine

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"With TextMaker, SoftMaker offers an affordable word processor that provides useful functions which are unknown in Microsoft Word."

Computer Partner

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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

 

  

PlanMaker

"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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"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."

CHIP

 

 

 

Comparing TextMaker to other word processors

c't, one of Germany's leading computer magazines investigated how common word processors cope with large documents (140 pages with 120 images, 240 footnotes etc.). Here are some excerpts:

Microsoft Word 2003

"Inserting pictures and footnotes into large Word 2003 documents resembles a thriller without a happy ending. As soon as you place images in a document, Word 2003 starts struggling with them – and this is so already on the first pages of the document. So, instead of embedding pictures, we decided to try the option "Link to file" and were at least able to insert 50 pictures. But beyond the twentieth picture, the reviewer's adrenaline level rose significantly, as pictures started jumping around and didn't want to stay at their designated position. Picture number 33 seemed to have glued itself to the page's top margin and ignored any attempts to reposition it. [...] It was impossible to predictably lay out the document – we decided to throw in the towel and handed Microsoft Word a dishonorable discharge with the File/Exit command.

Conclusion: It is stunning that a mega corporation like Microsoft is not able to produce a functioning word processor after 12 years of development."

  

WordPerfect 11

"Creating large documents with WordPerfect is like walking on raw eggs. There is the constant impression that something important could break at any moment or stop working correctly. Initially, the program accepted 90 pictures without hiccups. [...] With picture number 91, we decided to justify the paragraph that contained the picture. A program crash was the result. WordPerfect froze and had to be restarted. After the restart, inserting new paragraphs caused sudden unwanted font changes. Switching back to the desired font caused such a severe crash that we had to press the computer's reset button. As long as we restricted ourselves to just 70 pictures, such phenomena did not happen.

But still, large documents in WordPerfect are a gamble with an open ending."

  

TextMaker 2002

"TextMaker passed our horror test "Inserting pictures" with flying colors. The program distinguishes between an editing mode and an object mode, in which one moves and resizes pictures. Pictures are surrounded by an inner frame that contains the actual image, and an outer frame that lets the user easily set the wrap margins for each of the pictures four sides – a beautiful and intuitive solution.

120 pictures and twice as many footnotes didn't faze TextMaker in the slightest."

 

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