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SoftMaker Office

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Original author(s)
  
SoftMaker

Stable release
  
2016

Initial release
  
1994; 23 years ago (1994)

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, Pocket PCs, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Qtopia

License
  
Proprietary (commercial or freeware/registerware)

Website
  
www.softmaker.com www.freeoffice.com

SoftMaker Office is an office suite developed since 1987 by the German company SoftMaker Software GmbH, Nuremberg.

Contents

SoftMaker Office 2006 and 2008, previously available for purchase, were later released as freeware, and later still superseded by SoftMaker FreeOffice.

Components

SoftMaker Office includes:

  • TextMaker, a word processor
  • PlanMaker, a spreadsheet application
  • SoftMaker Presentations, a presentation graphics application that is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint
  • BasicMaker, a Win32-only VBA-like programming tool
  • The package SoftMaker Office Professional includes additional

  • an e-mail client,
  • a Duden spell checker,
  • two Duden dictionaries,
  • four Langenscheidt dictionaries.
  • Functionality

    SoftMaker Office has many functions of office suites such as MS Office, LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice or WordPerfect Office, and can also run from USB flash drives and supports integrated reference works. It has its own native formats, and can read and write file formats of Microsoft Office, OpenDocument format (word processor only), RTF and HTML. It can export to PDF. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported, and it has an integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).

    The user interface is similar to Microsoft Office's.

    References

    SoftMaker Office Wikipedia