08-12-2002, 10:28 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Everything that Pocket Word wished it could be?
http://www.softmaker.de/anywhere/anycepocket,en.htm
I'm immensely pleased to bring you some great news on the Pocket PC software front: TextMaker is officially being devleoped for the Pocket PC, and it should be available in beta form shortly. And when it comes time to buy the software, you'll hear about it here first.
"Ever wanted to do be able to view and edit your Word or TextMaker documents on your Pocket PC? Then TextMaker for Pocket PCs is for you!Compared to a certain "word processor" called Pocket Word, TextMaker offers the full feature set of a high-end word processor: Spell-check your documents. Work with pictures in numerous formats. Insert footnotes. Create TOCs and indices. Insert tables, even create forms. Use the integrated outliner. And there's a lot more...
TextMaker for Pocket PCs has practically all the features of the desktop version of TextMaker and is the most comprehensive word processer ever made for your Pocket PC. TextMaker for Pocket PCs brings Desktop-class word processing to your Pocket PC! Availability: TextMaker for Pocket PCs is currently under development. The first beta version will be available for download in a few weeks."
And here are just a few of the features:
� Documents can be opened and saved in numerous formats � e.g. TextMaker for Windows, Pocket Word, Word for Windows, RTF, ASCII, Unicode
� Direct document exchange with TextMaker for Windows and TextMaker for Linux � no conversion required, no loss of formatting
� Integrated file manager
� Almost unlimited undo/redo
� Search and replace text, formatting, and meta characters
� Sophisticated table support
� Sort text and tables
� Calculations in text and tables
� Outliner
� Insert fields like date, time, page number, author, auto-numbers etc.
� Character map for inserting special characters
� Bookmarks
� Glossary function: just type "asap" and "as soon as possible" will appear (fully customizable)
� Create forms including text fields, checkboxes, lists, calculations etc.
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08-12-2002, 10:32 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 170
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Looks VERY nice. If the developer ever reads this, I guess this will be mostly used by people who write and travel light. If I where you, I would include full support for the portable (foldable especially) keyboards available for the platform, in the form of key shortcuts, etc.
Best wishes with this program, it looks GREAT.
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08-12-2002, 10:38 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 121
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Definatly looks like a winner. I wonder how hard it would be to print from the PPC in this program...
heyday
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08-12-2002, 10:39 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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If this is ultimately ends up as a fast, stable app, it could easily become the best-selling program for PPC's.
--bdj
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08-12-2002, 10:42 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by Venturello
If I where you, I would include full support for the portable (foldable especially) keyboards available for the platform, in the form of key shortcuts, etc.
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Even better: the keyboard shortcuts are fully user-configurable. You can create as many keyboard mappings as you like and switch between them.
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH
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08-12-2002, 10:47 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 137
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What would be really nice is to be able to perform a mail merge with Pocket Excel and then be be able to print via IR. A whole office in your pocket! 8)
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08-12-2002, 10:49 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 498
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good job.
SoftMaker, good job.
you should inform us to test it as soon as it is avaiable.
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08-12-2002, 10:49 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 121
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How about we had text-to-speach or better yet.... Mind control to text....
heyday
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08-12-2002, 10:53 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by BTS
What would be really nice is to be able to perform a mail merge with Pocket Excel and then be be able to print via IR. A whole office in your pocket! 8)
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Well, you asked for it ... TextMaker has an integrated database that lets you view and edit .DBF files, and TextMaker supports mail-merging ... 
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08-12-2002, 10:55 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 159
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Originally Posted by heyday
How about we had text-to-speach or better yet.... Mind control to text....
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Well, not text-to-speech, but maybe speech-to-text with the upcoming Windows CE.NET. I hear it supports SAPI 5.0, and we have worked on speech recognition support for the Windows version of TextMaker in the past. Looks like we should revive this project ...
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