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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:

Powerful: Sophisticated office software for beginning and professional users alike.

Compatible: Reads and writes all Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files seamlessly.

Fast: Starts and works blazingly fast. Slow is out.

Reliable: Does what you want. No nasty surprises.


What's new in SoftMaker Office 2008

 

NEW: PowerPoint-compatible presentation graphics program SoftMaker Presentations

 

NEW: PDF export from all applications in SoftMaker Office

 

NEW: Printing from all applications (comes with a copy of JETCET Print for Windows Mobile 5 and 6)


NEW: Menus and dialogs are now also available in Dutch, Italian, and Bulgarian

TextMaker 2008

 

NEW: Reading and writing of Microsoft Word files improved yet again

 

NEW: Supports reading and writing of OpenDocument files

 

NEW: Built-in style manager lets you transfer paragraph and character styles between documents.


NEW: Objects and pictures can now be anchored to tables.


NEW: Toolbar with word counter


... and many other new features

PlanMaker 2008


NEW: Now with more than 330 calculation functions

 

NEW: New automatic functions such as AutoSum and AutoProduct help you build calculations fast.


NEW: QuickInfos tell you a function's parameters without you having to scour the manual for them.


... and many other new features


Powerful. For beginners and professionals alike.

SoftMaker Office 2008 comes with the following applications:

TextMaker 2008, the reliable and friendly word processor that reads and writes all Microsoft Word files without a hitch.

PlanMaker 2008, the fully Excel-compatible spreadsheet that lets you create the most intricate worksheets.

SoftMaker Presentations 2008, the brand new presentation graphics program – fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint.

BasicMaker 2008, a scripting language and environment that lets you automate recurring tasks.

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

...

"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"

Computer Partner

  

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

...

"With TextMaker, SoftMaker offers an affordable word processor that provides useful functions which are unknown in Microsoft Word."

Computer Partner

...

"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

 

  

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

...

"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."

CHIP

 


 


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