SoftMaker Office NX and 2024
Revisions released so far
New revisions of SoftMaker Office NX and SoftMaker Office 2024 with improvements and corrections are released regularly. These are installed automatically in the form of service packs.
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- Compatibility with Arch Linux and Manjaro restored
- Better AI with the new GPT-4o
- New Duden Korrektor
- Freely scalable user interface
- Adaptation of the user interface to Windows 11
- Copy only the filtered data in PlanMaker
- Support for Zotero 7
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- Better picture scaling in Presentations
- Kindle-compatible EPUB export
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- PlanMaker’s dark mode now offers dark documents also.
- Create QR codes and barcodes dynamically
- A shortcut key for translations
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- New SmartChat function for text review
- Longer texts with SmartChat
- New Duden Korrektor
- Pass formatting through formulas in PlanMaker
- Numbering in Greek, Russian and Bulgarian
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- Dark documents in TextMaker’s dark mode
- Let SmartChat address your readers formally or informally.
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- In PlanMaker, the input line can now be enlarged to multiple rows.
- Conveniently fill cells in PlanMaker
- QR codes and barcodes now also in PlanMaker and Presentations
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Revision 1200 was the initial release of SoftMaker Office NX.
2024-05-27: Improvements in revision 1214
Compatibility with Arch Linux and Manjaro restored
Recently, the OpenSSL library in Arch Linux and Manjaro was updated to a new version. This resulted in a collision with our own OpenSSL library, which meant that SoftMaker Office could no longer be started on the affected systems. This problem has been solved with the 1214 revision.
Download new .tgz installer: SoftMaker Office NX SoftMaker Office 2024
The Pacman packages for Arch Linux and Manjaro have also been updated by their maintainers.
Better AI with the new GPT-4o NX UNI
One of the most popular new features in SoftMaker Office is SmartChat, which uses artificial intelligence to intelligently summarize, improve and even compose texts on (almost) any topic.
We use the best AI currently available, ChatGPT from OpenAI. The "intelligence" of ChatGPT lies in the underlying language model. Until now, this was GPT-3.5. But we are now using the brand new GPT-4o model, which offers important advantages:
- Smarter: GPT-4o understands complex queries better, thereby delivering more precise and relevant answers.
- Larger: Your input may contain up to 128,000 words instead of around 16,000. This makes it possible to summarize even large documents.
- Faster: GPT-4o delivers results up to twice as fast as before.
- Up-to-date: While the knowledge of GPT-3.5 ends in September 2021, GPT-4o is up-to-date as of the end of 2023.
- Polyglot: GPT-4o understands around 50 languages and can respond in all of them.
- Understanding: GPT-4o is better at interpreting ambiguous or unclear queries and giving appropriate answers.
- More creative: GPT-4o shows improved performance in creative tasks such as writing stories, poems or other creative texts.
As a user of SoftMaker Office NX Universal, what do you need to do to use the new AI? Nothing at all. We have already activated it on our server. When you open SmartChat, you are already working with GPT-4o.
New Duden Korrektor NX UNI PRO
The new revision uses the latest Duden Korrektor to make your German-language texts even better.
Its most important change is the support of the Duden recommendations for automatic hyphenation. If you go to File | Options | Duden Korrektor options, open the list "Hyphenation style" and select the new option "Duden recommendation", you will get easy-to-read, easy-to-understand hyphenations that match the speech habits in German.
Freely scalable user interface
Do you feel that the icons and labels in the ribbon and dialog boxes are too small or too large?
You can change this now. A feature that SoftMaker Office users are already familiar with on other operating systems is now also coming to Windows: Revision 1212 allows you to fine-tune the scaling of the user interface.
You will find the new function by selecting File | Options, switching to the "Appearance" tab and clicking on the button "User interface size". Then use a slider to select the desired size of the dialog font, and SoftMaker Office will match it with a suitable size for the icons in the ribbon or the toolbars.
Adaptation of the user interface to Windows 11
The look of SoftMaker Office now fits harmoniously into Windows 11. When using Windows 11, elements such as input fields, checkboxes and dropdown lists now look the same as they do in other Windows 11 programs.
Copy only the filtered data in PlanMaker
If you use an AutoFilter to filter the data in a PlanMaker worksheet and copy it to the clipboard, only the visible (filtered) data will now be copied.
Support for Zotero 7 NX UNI PRO
TextMaker is now compatible with Zotero 7.
2024-02-21: Improvements in revision 1210
Better picture scaling in Presentations
When you changed the slide size in Presentations (for example, from 4:3 to 16:9), all pictures were automatically resized. With revision 1210, you will now be asked if this is desired.
Kindle-compatible EPUB export NX UNI PRO
TextMaker now creates EPUB files that the Amazon program KindleGen can convert into Amazon-compatible e-books.
2024-01-31: Improvements in revision 1208
PlanMaker’s dark mode now offers dark documents also NX UNI NX HOME
As TextMaker's improved dark mode with dark document background has met with so much approval, we have now also integrated it into PlanMaker.
As soon as you switch PlanMaker to dark mode, the worksheet background automatically becomes dark. Dark text colors appear brighter so that the text remains easy to read.
Drag the slider to compare the document display before and after.
If you prefer the previous bright worksheet background in dark mode or if you want to quickly check how the worksheet will print, simply click on the “Dark document” icon in the Quick access toolbar – it’s the icon highlighted in yellow in the adjacent screenshot.
Tip: If this icon is not shown in your Quick access toolbar, click on the ">>" icon at the right end of the Quick access toolbar and add the “Dark document” icon using Add/remove buttons.
Create QR codes and barcodes dynamically NX UNI PRO
With TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations, you can embed QR codes and barcodes in your documents in a flash.
This function has now been improved in PlanMaker so that you can also choose a table cell instead of a fixed text. This allows you to dynamically retrieve the source data for your QR code or barcode from a worksheet, calculate it or even drag it from another PlanMaker document.
A shortcut key for translations NX UNI
TextMaker produces excellent translations in a wide range of languages thanks to the integrated DeepL.
If you are translating sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph, repeatedly clicking on "Translate now" can become tiresome at some point. This is why TextMaker now allows you to assign a shortcut key to the "Translate now" command.
Proceed as follows:
- Choose File | Customize | Customize ribbon.
- Enter the search term "Translate" in the Quick search field.
- Then click on Shortcut keys to expand the dialog box.
- Enter a suitable shortcut key near the bottom of the dialog box and click on Add.
- Close the dialog box again.
The new shortcut key can be used immediately.
2023-11-20: Improvements in revision 1206
New SmartChat function for text review NX UNI
Artificial intelligence is really good at writing and improving texts. Right from its release, TextMaker NX has offered helpful functions for summarizing and creating texts.
Revision 1206 adds the new function "Review text", which subjects your texts to a "text review".
It examines texts for errors in content and style and assesses the readability and level of difficulty of the texts. It helps you write even better texts by providing useful tips on their weak points.
Longer texts with SmartChat NX UNI
Texts that you send to ChatGPT via SmartChat can now have up to 16000 words instead of 4000 words. This is helpful when summarizing long texts. For orientation, this lets you automatically summarize around 40 pages in one go.
New Duden Korrektor NX UNI PRO
With revision 1206, you receive the latest Duden Korrektor, which recognizes additional grammatical errors in German texts. For example, it now finds case errors such as “Der Sachverständige konnte keinem Fehler finden” or “Wen gehört das Fahrrad?”. Errors in the placement of commas, especially missing commas in subordinate clauses, are detected even better. The spelling dictionary has also been expanded.
Pass formatting through formulas in PlanMaker
PlanMaker now passes formatting such as "Currency", "Date/time" and "Percent" through result cells. For example, if cell A1 contains "€42.00", then =A1+1 no longer returns "43", but "€43.00".
Numbering in Greek, Russian and Bulgarian
When numbering paragraphs and headings, TextMaker now also supports doing so with Greek, Russian and Bulgarian letters.
2023-09-07: Improvements in revision 1204
Dark documents in TextMaker’s dark mode
The latest revision of TextMaker offers a welcome improvement for all fans of the dark mode: Documents can now also be displayed with a dark background, and not just the user interface. This type of display is particularly easy on the eyes.
As soon as you switch to dark mode, the document background automatically becomes dark. Dark text colors appear brighter so that the text remains easy to read.
Drag the slider to compare the document display before and after.
If you prefer the previous bright document background in dark mode or if you want to quickly check how the document will print, simply click on the icon “Dark document” in the Quick access toolbar – it’s the icon highlighted in yellow in the adjacent screenshot.
Tip: If this icon is not shown in your Quick access toolbar, click on the ">>" icon at the right end of the Quick access toolbar and add the “Dark document” icon using Add/remove buttons.
Let SmartChat address your readers formally or informally NX UNI
SmartChat is a handy tool that writes texts for you automatically when you are in a creative slump. Whether it's a birthday card in a foreign language, a report for the club newsletter, a technical text for work or study, or even a fairy tale that delights children: SmartChat delivers!
However, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian have different types of personal pronouns that depend on the desired formality. In French, it is “vous” vs. “tu”, in German “du” vs. “Sie”, etc. If ChatGPT chooses the wrong degree of formality, you have to revise the text manually. This is not only tedious, but you are practically guaranteed to overlook at least one pronoun or fail to adjust at least one verb form to match the pronoun.
This risk is a thing of the past. With its latest revision, TextMaker lets you select the desired degree of formality in the function "Write a story". This works for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian – all major languages that distinguish between formal and informal addressing.
2023-07-25: Improvements in revision 1202
Multi-row input line in PlanMaker
The input line can now be enlarged, which makes editing long formulas easier. You can choose to show the input line as a single row or multiple rows, or have it automatically expand for long formulas.
Conveniently fill cells in PlanMaker
If you have a column with values and write a formula or a value to its right, you can now automatically fill the cells below by double-clicking on the lower right corner of the selection rectangle.
QR codes and barcodes now also in PlanMaker and Presentations NX UNI PRO
The QR code/barcode feature is now also available in PlanMaker and Presentations.
2023-06-20: Revision 1200
Revision 1200 was the initial release of SoftMaker Office NX.
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