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Writer X - 3.0

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

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Current Version:	3.0
Release Date:	2002-12-01
License:	Commercial
Downloads (this version):	4,188
Downloads (all versions):	10,176
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, a Spell Checker (On Mac OS 10.2 and higher), 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 X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
Internet access for dictionary

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Sooloo: I've gotten… - Version: 3.0, 12/2/2002 01:07AM PST

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makalu

to the point that I simply won't download a Realbasic-based application if it's not something that's absolutely critical to my needs. Every one of these apps is at least 2.5 MB, has all sorts of GUI/widget problems, and often have memory leaks.

This is indeed… - Version: 3.0, 12/1/2002 05:02PM PST

thomem

a useful tool, but just a bit too rudimentary. How about a ruler with tab stops or html numbered and bulleted lists, and perhaps even html tables? This could then be what TextEdit promises but doesn't deliver, a rudimentary html/rtf editor for simple documents.

This is an… - Version: 2.8, 8/16/2002 12:38PM PST

moofster

neat idea. I've always wanted a word processor that lets me test out different fonts with the click of a left/right button, change text size on the fly with a slider, etc. One of the neatest things about this program is the format it saves files in. Unlike certain other widely used word processors, the formatted files Writer saves can be opened with another text editor (such as BBEdit) and edited. None of the formatting information appears in a text editor - it must be stored in a header or something.