Comments on: SoftMaker – Free office suite software http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/free-office-suite-software/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:59:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: CS http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/free-office-suite-software/comment-page-1/#comment-17973 CS Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:54:28 +0000 http://www.online-tech-tips.com/?p=10041#comment-17973 I've been doing some testing on every word processor I could find in order to finish a very large document I started in Word. MS word canNOT complete the document! It can't get it into pdf--tried acrobat and even word 2007 doesn't do it with its new "save as pdf" add-in, it breaks the thousands of links I have in the document--they work in the document but aren't published in PDF. After all the software I've looked at I found SoftMaker's TextMaker to be the most compatible with *.doc files, the fastest, one of the few that could handle the large complex size of my document, small foot print, and great exportation to pdf with forms if needed. Prior to TextMaker I had used Word, of course, and OOo for the past couple of years. Despite the many claims that Openoffice.org works well with *.doc files I've found that it can import them if saved in Word in the right format but you will never get them out looking correct--saving in *.doc or*.rtf from OOo writer has destroyed this document every time, adding usually about 100+ pages to a 900 page document not to mention formatting and hyperlink issues. I don't think OOo is serious about being truly cross compatible with *.doc files; however, after using textmaker I can say they certain seem to be. Not to mention OOo strange way of doing things. I suggest people give SoftMaker Office a shot if they need something that really does work *.doc files well and gives pdf export at a very reasonable price. I’ve been doing some testing on every word processor I could find in order to finish a very large document I started in Word. MS word canNOT complete the document! It can’t get it into pdf–tried acrobat and even word 2007 doesn’t do it with its new “save as pdf” add-in, it breaks the thousands of links I have in the document–they work in the document but aren’t published in PDF.

After all the software I’ve looked at I found SoftMaker’s TextMaker to be the most compatible with *.doc files, the fastest, one of the few that could handle the large complex size of my document, small foot print, and great exportation to pdf with forms if needed. Prior to TextMaker I had used Word, of course, and OOo for the past couple of years. Despite the many claims that Openoffice.org works well with *.doc files I’ve found that it can import them if saved in Word in the right format but you will never get them out looking correct–saving in *.doc or*.rtf from OOo writer has destroyed this document every time, adding usually about 100+ pages to a 900 page document not to mention formatting and hyperlink issues. I don’t think OOo is serious about being truly cross compatible with *.doc files; however, after using textmaker I can say they certain seem to be. Not to mention OOo strange way of doing things.

I suggest people give SoftMaker Office a shot if they need something that really does work *.doc files well and gives pdf export at a very reasonable price.

]]> By: Walter http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/free-office-suite-software/comment-page-1/#comment-16276 Walter Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:04:39 +0000 http://www.online-tech-tips.com/?p=10041#comment-16276 Most people don't use 10% of what these suites are capable of. I like OpenOffice for a free app, but I currently use Microsoft Office 2007 because of the Outlook integration with my server. Most people don’t use 10% of what these suites are capable of. I like OpenOffice for a free app, but I currently use Microsoft Office 2007 because of the Outlook integration with my server.

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