"SoftMaker
Office 2006 represents an improved, more powerful Microsoft Office
2003, but built with ease and speed at every turn in its interface
and engine."
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
...
"We
recommend TextMaker and PlanMaker without reservation."
WINdorado
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"An
extremely inexpensive alternative to the conventional Microsoft
Office offering"
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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
...
"TextMaker's
installation was flawless
under Red Hat Linux. Once the program is set up, anyone familiar with
desktop word-processing programs will feel right at home. All of the
controls and options we are familiar with from previous destop
publishing or word processing programs are in the expected places. ..."
"TextMaker
loads very fast,
with no hesitancy on our test system (a 133
MHz Pentium II). This seems to be due in
part to SoftMaker's decision to use its own class library, rather
than either the Gtk or Qt toolkits. The product takes up little
resources, and full versions are available for mobile devices such as
the Pocket PC. ..."
"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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"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."
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