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TextMaker 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD. Fast. Powerful. Compatible.

     

TextMaker 2006

SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux or
SoftMaker Office 2006 for FreeBSD

US$ 69,95

European customers: € 69.95

Upgrade from SoftMaker Office 2004:

  

$ 34.95
European
customers: € 34.95

Upgrade from older
versions of SoftMaker Office, TextMaker, PlanMaker:

  

$ 49.95
European
customers: € 49.95

Prices include VAT for European customers

 

Welcome to your NEW word proessor for Linux and FreeBSD!

TextMaker 2006 offers everything you expect from a high-end word processor, executes all tasks instantaneously, provides superior Microsoft Word compatibility, and is extremely easy to use.

What more can you ask for? Fast. Compatible. Powerful. User-friendly. All this at a price everyone can afford.

 

Reads and Writes Word Documents with Highest Fidelity

TextMaker 2006 offers superior compatibility with Microsoft Word. In fact, you won't find another word processor that is as capable of handling intricately formatted Microsoft Word files as TextMaker 2006.

Many of the new features in TextMaker 2006 have been designed with the goal of allowing TextMaker users to work seamlessly in Microsoft Word-dominated environments. Even if your colleagues or business partners use Word under Windows, you can seamlessly exchange documents with them:

COMPATIBLE: Track Changes

As soon as you switch on the new Track Changes feature, TextMaker records all changes made to a document. Deleted text appears struck through, text additions are displayed underlined.

If you let a colleague or superior review this document, he or she can accept or reject your changes one by one. It doesn't even matter if such a document is then edited with TextMaker or Microsoft Word: all tracked changes are equally visible in both word processors.

TextMaker's new comments feature is just as compatible: Comments and annotations appear as balloons in the right page margin – just like in Word 2003.

 

COMPATIBLE: AutoShapes like in Microsoft Word

TextMaker 2006 offers a complete set of drawing functions that let you create arbitrary geometric shapes or freehand drawings, and insert symbols from its vast symbols library into your documents.

You can customize drawings with a huge selection of fill patterns, color gradients, drop shadows, lighting effects, borders etc., and you can rotate, mirror, flip and otherwise reshape them.

Even better: All such drawing objects are AutoShapes that can be transferred back and forth to Microsoft Word with 100% accuracy.

 

COMPATIBLE: TextArt – Text Effects like in Microsoft Word

TextMaker 2006 now supports text effects that let you put together attractive headlines and stunning logos. Text following a wavy line, with a beautiful drop shadow, or running in a spiral – all this is just a few mouse clicks away!

 

  

TextMaker doesn't restrict itself to just providing excellent document exchange with Microsoft Word, but also comes with other filters, for example capable XML import filters for OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument.

 

Five Good Reasons for TextMaker

TextMaker is not "just compatible", but also offers unique advantages compared to other word processors. Some examples:

1.

Better proofing tools: TextMaker comes with advanced proofing tools – the German government's commission on the German language preferred TextMaker's spell-checker over all other word processors!

Of course, TextMaker doesn't limit itself to the German language: it comes with spelling dictionaries in 17 languages, synonym dictionaries in 10, and reliable automatic hyphenation in 33 different languages. It even includes a five-language translation dictionary.

2.

Better layout capabilities: If you want not only correct but also attractive documents, you'll find a competent partner in TextMaker.

Among its capabilities are master pages, sophisticated typographic functions, powerful tools for creating forms, and most importantly: predictable text formatting. With TextMaker, pictures don't jump from one page to another, "just because", or disappear entirely.

3.

Better database connectivity: Mail merging doesn't have to be complicated. With TextMaker, creating serial letters is child's play!

The built-in database does not only store addresses for mail merges but also lets you insert single addresses into single letters with a few mouse clicks. Just choose a letter template, select the address in the database and you get a perfect letterhead as result. Think about it: You write regular letters much more often than serial letters, and TextMaker saves you time here as well.

4.

You don't need to speak English or German to use TextMaker: The user interface (menus and dialogs) of TextMaker is available in 10 languages. Further, TextMaker provides a full set of ready-made document templates in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.

Automatic hyphenation and spell-check is implemented in many languages as well, and last but not least, there's an in-built dictionary for instant translations in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

5.

TextMaker is not only available for Linux and FreeBSD, but has versions for Windows, Pocket PCs, Windows CE, and Sharp Zaurus as well – one word processor, six platforms.

All versions of TextMaker 2006 share the same file format and can exchange documents with each other without any conversion.

So, if you need, for example, to access TextMaker and Microsoft Word files on the road, TextMaker will become your indispensable companion on your notebook computer or PDA: Editing Word files without loss of formatting – that's a feat only TextMaker achieves!

 

Features

Easy data exchange

Direct document exchange with TextMaker 2006 for Windows, Pocket PCs, and Windows CE

NEW: Seamless document exchange with Microsoft Word 6.0, 95, 97, 2000, Word XP, Word 2003, and Word for Macintosh

Reads and writes numerous additional file formats – HTML, RTF, Pocket Word, ASCII, Unicode

NEW: Imports OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument documents

NEW: Now also opens password-protected Microsoft Word files

Editing text

Nearly unlimited undo/redo

Insert fields like date, time, page number, author, auto-numbers, etc.

Bookmarks

"SmartText" feature: just type e.g. "asap" and "as soon as possible" will appear (fully customizable)

Calculations in text and tables

Formatting text

All of the character and paragraph formatting capabilities you expect from a high-end word processor

Extended character formats like small caps, font color, hidden text, adjustable character spacing and character width

Extended paragraph formats like automatic numbering, bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control

Fully customizable style sheets for character and paragraph formatting

NEW: Transfer formatting with the format brush

NEW: Line, paragraph, and headline numbering

Headers and footers, master pages (e.g. for watermarks)

  

Complex documents

Outliner that lets you easily promote, demote, and rearrange passages of text

NEW: "Track Changes" tracks all changes made to documents and lets you accept/reject them later

NEW: Comments – add annotations to any part of your documents

NEW: Cross references

Footnotes, endnotes, tables of contents, indices, NEW: Bibliographies

Easy creation of forms with input fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists etc.

Drawing and Designing

NEW: Comprehensive drawing and image functions built in: Draw and design directly in your documents

Insert images in all common formats, create freehand drawings, rectangles, circles...

NEW: All drawings fully compatible with Microsoft Word's AutoShapes

NEW: Object frames can be anchored to paragraphs and will move when the paragraph moves.

NEW: Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images directly inside TextMaker

NEW: Drawings can be filled with colors, patterns, bitmaps, and numerous types of gradients

NEW: Align, distribute, mirror, and flip objects, free rotation both in 2D and 3D

NEW: Contour wrap – correct wrapping of text even around rotated or irregularly shaped drawings

NEW: "Sticky" connector lines between objects

NEW: Large symbols library for flowcharts and org charts

NEW: TextArt gallery for easy pick-and-choose selection of pre-built type effects

Tables

NEW: True nested tables

NEW: Merge, split, and rotate cells

NEW: Repeating header rows (rows with headlines automatically repeat on every new page)

Sorting of text and tables

  

Unicode support

NEW: TextMaker 2006 is now Unicode-enabled. It can be used for writing documents in all Western, Central European and Baltic languages, Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

NEW: Extended support for Asian scripts

Proofing tools

Multi-language spell-checking and hyphenation

Automatic spell-checking: typos will be underlined in red.

Spell-checking in 17, synonyms in 10, and hyphenation in 33 languages

Integrated five-language translation dictionary: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish

Integrated database

Comprehensive built-in address book and database (dBASE format)

Creates, at the touch of a key, letters and faxes with letterheads, recipient's address, and salutation already filled in

Sorting, searching, selecting, filtering by condition

Create lists and labels

Easy creation of mail merges

System requirements

Linux: Any Linux for PCs with glibc 2.2.5 or higher, X Window system with any Window Manager

FreeBSD: FreeBSD 5.2 or higher, X Window system with any Window Manager

Memory (RAM): 32 MByte

 

Multi-language support

User interface:

English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, NEW: French, NEW: Russian, NEW: Hungarian and NEW: Turkish
 

Spell-checking:

English US, English UK, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canada), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
 

Thesauri (synonyms):

English UK, English US, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canada), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Dutch
 

Automated hyphenation:

English (UK), English (USA), German, German (reformed), Swiss German, Swiss German (reformed), French, French (Canada), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, NEW: Finnish, NEW: Turkish, NEW: Greek, NEW: Czech, NEW: Polish, NEW: Slovak, NEW: Slovenian, NEW: Croatian, NEW: Serbian, NEW: Romanian, NEW: Bulgarian, NEW: Russian, NEW: Ukrainian, NEW: Estonian, NEW: Latvian, NEW: Lithuanian
 

Translation dictionary:

English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish

 

 © 2006 SoftMaker Software GmbH

     

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