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Writer

Writer - 3.0

Text editor with RTF, HTML, powerful tools, backups & more

All Time: (4.1)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 3.0
Release Date: 2002-12-01
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 2,518
Downloads (all versions): 35,749
Price: $10.00

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Product Description:

Writer is a small word processor that allows you to create basic documents with the minimum of effort. The interface has been designed to be as user-friendly and intuitive as possible, allowing you to work on your document without interruption. It has several advanced features such as text manipulation tools, HTML and RTF support, automatic backups and much more.

What's new in this version:

Writer 3 boasts many new features and fixes from Writer 2.8. The main new features are:
  • Automatic "Smart Quotes"
  • HTML and RTF Import and Export
  • Automatic Document Backups
  • Text Tools for automatic text manipulation:
    • UPPERCASE
    • lowercase
    • Capitalise Words
    • Strip Leading '>' Marks
    • Strip Other...

    • Count...
    • Smarten Quotes
    • Stupefy Quotes
  • Insertion Point location is now saved with documents
  • New Icons!

Main improvements to existing features:

  • Pictures are now survive import/export to SimpleText format
  • Many interface improvements
  • Improved file saving routines
  • Optimised to use less CPU time

Complete release notes from the alpha/beta testing period can be found here.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS 8.5 or higher
  • PPC

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Writer ReviewIt would be… - Version: 2.3, 6/10/2002 10:22PM PST

Ameslan
useful if it would handle different file types such as .RTF (to be compatible with the WordSmith word processor for my Palm 3xe). Otherwise paying anything is too much and not worth any rating. This is why I refuse to use anything other than BBEdit Lite or Corel's WordPerfect. The other features can also be found in freeware titles as well, like the very feature-laden PandoCalendar, etc. All that aside, this appears to be a fairly robust low-end user product that has quite a bit of potential. If the feature set were to exceed comparative freeware titles, the cost factor could concieveably be considered irrelevant (such as when my employer purchased the Personal Organizer title even though we got the Palm Desktop free with my aforementioned Palm 3xe).
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Writer ReviewWish i had… - Version: 2.3, 5/9/2002 07:24AM PST

Robert Sharpe
known about iText before paying 5 dollars for Writer... It's free and works better with larger pictures.
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Writer CommentaryI apologise for… - Version: 2.3, 5/9/2002 04:00AM PST

Daniel Kennett
this. The correct link is [http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/files/writer_compat.sit.bin]. The 'Alternate download' link will be changed to reflect this.
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