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What
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TextMaker
has been nominated
for "Best
Software 2003"
by Pocket
PC Magazine |
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 French-speaking
readers might be interested in this
review.
Spanish-speaking
readers might like to read this
article and this
review.
"The
gold-standard in Pocket PC word processors"
Brighthand.com
Pocket PC News
"TextMaker
is now the undisputed king of handheld word processing."
Steve
Clack for Palmtop
User magazine, UK
"TextMaker
[...] is a wonderful word processor for the PocketPC. Imagine
being able to work on Word documents on the road, with the full
feature set of a desktop-class word processor available on your
Pocket PC! Now you can import Word documents with all formatting intact,
edit it, and save it as a Word document. [...]
TextMaker
is a must-have program!"
"Pocket
Press", AOL's weekly newsletter for PDA users
"Overall,
I'm impressed. TextMaker lives up to the hype as few
applications do, and provides unprecedented word processing power
on pocket-sized screens. [...]
[TextMaker]
joins my list of Pocket PC 'killer apps'."
Jeff
Kirvin, writingonyourpalm.net
"If
you spend any time working with documents on your Pocket PC, you
need this software!"
pocketpctools.com
"Pocket
Word is disappointing - is there something better?
Yes.
TextMaker from SoftMaker is an excellent Pocket PC word processor
that allows easy import/export of Word documents without loss of
formatting. It has a rich feature set that puts many a desktop
Word Processor to shame. We have no hesitation in recommending
this as a thoroughly useable and useful piece of software."
User
Guide of firstloox.org
"...
qualifies as a must buy for 2003.
[...]
Service support from SoftMaker is good. They are responsive, and they
pay attention to the customer. This is so important and that makes up
the pleasure of purchasing a well made software. You have a feeling
of security and continuity that you bought a well made product where
the developers are committed to see you through."
ppcsg.com
"This
is not some half-hearted attempt - like many other Pocket PC programs
- it is a full-featured word processing tool, with just about every
truly useful feature that you could possibly want, whether on a
desktop computer or a Pocket PC."
InfoScape
Systems, Australia
"Since
its beta launch so long ago, TextMaker has attracted rabid media
coverage, not to mention the equally intense user enthusiasm. [...]
Once one
has entered TextMaker and set up personal details, any user of a
desktop word-processing package will feel right at home, with
all the controls in the expected place. Heavily-used functions
(especially those suited to a PDA program, such as zoom) are situated
in a one-tap toolbar at the bottom, and all other commands are either
in a hierarchical menu or in user-configurable bars. [...]
A full
range of ‘big’ word processor options are fully
implemented in TextMaker. Over and above Pocket Word, users will be
pleased to discover outlining, full image support, footnotes,
headers, page numbers, a decent search tool, chapters, tables, forms,
bookmarks, undo/redo, calculations, thesaurus and spell-checker: I
pause for breath. Obviously, formatting is also a major feature, with
full support for colour, font, spacing, positioning, borders and
shading all available at the touch of a button.
Since the
only competition for TextMaker on this platform is Pocket Word, we're
truly grateful to SoftMaker for not just trying to go one better -
they could have made do with a small selection of these features, or
even remedying some of the major mishaps of Pocket Word, but instead
went all out and provided a serious program whichever platform
it’s for.
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. Since Pocket
Word did an excellent impersonation of a butcher when handling these
same files, SoftMaker have done well here. [...]
Overall,
TextMaker is a true wonder of a program. Given a portable
keyboard, I would be happy to create a long and complicated document
with this application without fear of missing a feature or losing my
work. In its efficient use of space (both storage and screen) and
equally efficient programming, it stretches the limited platform of
the Pocket PC to new limits. In sheer power alone it happily
leaves its rivals in the dust: in fact, I’d go so far as to
say that this is the most important PPC program now available
for almost any mobile professional.
Anthony
Newman for infosync.no
"TextMaker
is the most feature-packed word processor to be developed for the
Pocket PC platform and it has all the features that you would
expect to find on a high-end PC word processor (and a few more besides)."
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10/10 |
PDA
Essentials, UK, 8/2002 issue
"[The
launch of the full version of TextMaker] marks an important
milestone for PocketPC users."
pdapro.co.uk
"Leaves
Pocket Word in the Dust"
brighthand.com
"TextMaker
is an impressive word processing application with the potential to
be a killer-app for mobile professionals."
Jim
McCarthy, pocketanywhere.com
(November 2002 issue)
"What
strikes you first when browsing through TextMaker's menus is how enormously
feature-rich it is. Unlike Microsoft's Pocket Word, which it
aims to replace, it's not crippled in terms of functionality. In
fact, it's basically comparable in capabilities to Word 95 for the
desktop PC. That's mighty impressive for a program that only takes up
7.5 MB of storage space.
[...]
What
makes TextMaker a really special program, however, is not just its
phenomenal feature set, but its efficiency: in space, in speed and in
ease of use.
We've been
waiting for a long time for a program like this..."
Anthony
Newman, brighthand.com
"We've
been waiting for a Word replacement since the release of the Pocket
PC OS when we found that the built-in application was too limited for
those of us who wanted to seamlessly edit, create, and view Word
documents on our Pocket PC. SoftMaker has come to the rescue and
delivered an amazing product, TextMaker.
[...]
Conclusion:
This product will be a must have for anyone who wants a real word
processor and addresses one of the few weak points in the Pocket PC world."
Matthew
Miller, pocketpclife.co.uk
"After
a 3 hour test drive I'm more than impressed with TextMaker
for Pocket PCs; I'm jumping with joy.
TextMaker
for Pocket PCs supports everything from the simplest word processing
features like styling, tables, header /footers, footnotes and spell
check to more powerful features such as mail merging, inserting
picture and form objects and generating table of contents and indices.
[...]
Worth
every penny..."
Jim
McCarthy, pocketanywhere.com
"I
wouldn't normally publish a non-Loox related press release but this
is, in my humble opinion, probably the best
piece of software news for the Pocket PC since they were first introduced!"
Duncan
Purvis, firstloox.org
"It’s
amazing, really amazing and I’m completely amazed. (Really,
I don’t get any money from these guys but it really amazed me as
you can read here ;-)."
Arne
Hess, ppcw.net
"It's
been a long time coming, but Pocket Word finally has itself a world-class
text editor.
Bottom
line: Compu2Go heartily recommends SoftMaker's TextMaker. [...]
The price tag will likely be in the $70 range, but for anyone who
needs superior text editing on the fly, TextMaker is worth twice
the price!"
John
Mierau, compu2go.com
"Ever
since the launch of Pocket PC, many people have lamented at how bad
Pocket Word is. Many Pocket PC enthusiasts jokingly called it
‘Pocket Notepad’. In my opinion, TextMaker is what
Pocket Word should have been. [...]
This is an
achievement to the Pocket PC industry as it is by far the most
feature-packed program that I have used. It makes using Pocket PC
stand up to the meaning of "pocket-ability". Finally, I am
able to carry my work around with complete proper editing.
Start up
was fast and snappy, taking away the myth that large documents with
embedded pictures will suffer slowdowns. Screen refreshes were fast
and reacted in almost real time. The program was tested on both a X-scale
400Mhz model and an ARM 206Mhz model. In both units, the documents
ran smoothly. [...]
TextMaker
has a neat, clean and easy-to-use intuitive menu system. It is
impressive how SoftMaker fully utilized the small Pocket PC screen
fitting the host of functions into that tiny space. The menu
system resembles the menu system found in Office Word, thus
shortening the learning curve. [...]
Incredibly
fast. Snappy. [...]
Conclusion:
Arguably the best Pocket PC word program. I
would recommend it to anyone. It qualifies as a must-buy for 2003.
Service
support from SoftMaker is good. They are responsive, and they pay
attention to the customer. This is so important and that makes up the
pleasure of purchasing a well-made software. You have a feeling of
security and continuity that you bought a well-made product where the
developers are committed to see you through.
With an
optional desktop version for just US$20, it is great value for money.
The desktop version is a versatile and feature-packed word processor
that stands on its own against well-known commercial versions of word
programs in the market."
ppcsg.com
"TextMaker
promises to be the app of the century for the Pocket PC."
Mark R
Penn in the brighthand.com forum
"If
any one asks me what apps I would recommend to a new user this is it.
It is also one of the very small number of programs that I have seen
on the Pocket PC that I think realises the full potential of the device."
ceebmoj
in the brighthand.com forum
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