The latest mobile office suite from SoftMaker comes with significant improvements and advantages:
- NEW: SoftMaker Presentations, the new alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint
- NEW: PDF export in all applications
- NEW: Printing from the Pocket PC in all applications
- NEW: New versions of TextMaker and PlanMaker with many new features
Your office suite is the most important application on your PC for
document creation, both at work and for personal tasks.
Choose the right office suite, and you will become more productive
immediately. Choose SoftMaker Office 2008, and you will get
the job done in less time, with better results, and at
a drastically lower cost than with Microsoft Office.
If you need to exchange Word documents, Excel sheets, or PowerPoint
presentations with colleagues and business partners, you are no
longer dependant on high-priced Microsoft Office: SoftMaker Office
2008 reads and writes all your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files seamlessly.
Everything speaks for SoftMaker Office 2008:
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Powerful: Sophisticated office
software for beginning and professional users alike. |
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Compatible: Reads and writes all
Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files seamlessly. |
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Fast: Starts and works blazingly
fast. Slow is out. |
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Reliable: Does what you want. No
nasty surprises.
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What's new in SoftMaker Office 2008
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NEW:
PowerPoint-compatible presentation graphics program SoftMaker Presentations |
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NEW: PDF
export from all applications in SoftMaker Office |
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NEW: Printing
from all applications (comes with a copy of JETCET Print for Windows
Mobile 5 and 6) |
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NEW:
Menus and dialogs are now also available in Dutch, Italian,
and Bulgarian |
TextMaker 2008
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NEW: Reading
and writing of Microsoft Word files
improved yet again |
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NEW:
Supports reading and writing
of OpenDocument files |
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NEW:
Built-in style manager lets you transfer paragraph and
character styles between documents. |
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Objects and pictures can now be anchored to tables. |
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Toolbar with word counter |
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... and many other new features |
PlanMaker 2008
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NEW:
Now with more than 330
calculation functions |
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New automatic functions such as AutoSum and AutoProduct
help you build calculations fast. |
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NEW: QuickInfos
tell you a function's parameters without you having to scour the
manual for them. |
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... and many other new features |
Powerful. For beginners and
professionals alike.
SoftMaker Office 2008 comes with the following applications:
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TextMaker 2008, the reliable and
friendly word processor that reads and writes all Microsoft Word
files without a hitch. |
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PlanMaker 2008, the fully
Excel-compatible spreadsheet that lets you create the most
intricate worksheets. |
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SoftMaker Presentations 2008, the brand
new presentation graphics program – fully compatible with
Microsoft PowerPoint. |
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BasicMaker 2008, a scripting
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All programs are a perfect match. They not only provide
consistent menu and dialog box arrangements, but can also exchange
data smoothly with each other.
For instance, you can insert a PlanMaker worksheet in TextMaker, or a
pie chart from PlanMaker in a SoftMaker Presentations slide. Using
the OLE server fuctionality, you can insert any document,
calculation, or presentation slide in any SoftMaker Office application.
Furthermore, all applications of SoftMaker Office work with the same
file formats. That means you can, for example, create an address list
in PlanMaker, save it as a dBASE database, and then use it in
TextMaker as address database to create mail merges or print address labels.
Compatible. Microsoft Office,
OpenDocument, and many more.
When you receive documents from friends or colleagues, you want to
edit them with your office suite. That's why SoftMaker Office reads
and writes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with highest fidelity.
You can even set your default file types to "Word",
"Excel", and "PowerPoint", and never worry about
exchanging documents again!
NewsForge.com says about PlanMaker: "You won't find a
more Excel-compatible spreadsheet on any operating system",
and InfoSyncWorld raves about TextMaker: "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."
TextMaker also supports the open document standard OpenDocument,
thereby making it compatible with OpenOffice.org. In addition,
TextMaker, PlanMaker, and SoftMaker Presentations export documents to PDF
format at the flick of a key. Such files can be viewed and
printed with Adobe Reader or any other PDF viewer.
Fast. Nobody wants to wait.
Nobody likes to wait. You should not put up with slow office
software – period! SoftMaker Office starts lightning fast, works
lightning fast and calculates lightning fast. While the competition
still tallies up the figures, your document is already done!
But SoftMaker Office is not only fast: it also has minimal
hardware requirements. Even on older computers – back to
Windows 2000 – SoftMaker Office cuts a fine figure.
You can even install SoftMaker Office 2008 on a USB stick. That way,
you always have your office suite with you, ready for action.
Reliable. Does what you want.
Nothing is more annoying than an office suite that does not do what
it is supposed to do. The German computer magazine c't has
published some horror stories
about some of our high-priced competitors.
In contrast, SoftMaker Office is renowned for working reliably in all
situations: It won't be fazed by the largest documents and most
complex calculations.
Affordable. Costs only a fraction of
Microsoft Office.
What the Press Says About SoftMaker Office for Windows
SoftMaker Office
"The best cross-platform office suite I have yet used."
softwareinreview.com
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"SoftMaker Office is a well-designed office suite
at an affordable price. It is an attractive proposition for all users
coming from Microsoft Office."
Computerwoche 2/07
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"SoftMaker Office represents an improved, more
powerful Microsoft Office 2003, but built with ease and speed at
every turn in its interface and engine. Most people will want exactly
that, especially those not willing to relearn everything with
Microsoft Office 2007."
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
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"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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TextMaker
"Imagine taking the best and most-used features
of Word 2003, vastly expanding its document creation power, and
throwing in a healthy dose of perfectionism throughout the user
interface. Forget your imagination and just check out TextMaker. I'm
betting you'll love it because it will never slow you down."
donationcoder.com
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"It's stable, capable, and lightweight, but its
crowning features is still its superior file format compatibility
with Microsoft Word. [...]
So right off the bat, I was extremely impressed
with TextMaker."
softwareinreview.com
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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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"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.
TextMaker provides the features you would expect in a
modern graphical word processor.
"The MS Word
document import function worked very well,
importing even complex layouts."
Linux Magazine
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"With TextMaker, SoftMaker offers an affordable
word processor that provides useful functions which are unknown in
Microsoft Word."
Computer Partner
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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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PlanMaker
"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
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"The enormous feature-richness at minimal
hardware requirements speaks for PlanMaker as an Excel alternative."
PC Professionell
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"PlanMaker provides Excel feeling –
without the bloat and at a fair price."
PC-Direkt
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"PlanMaker is a powerful and fast calculation
program with an outstanding price/performance ratio. Quick to
install, easy to learn."
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