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Product Description:
Mariner Write is a powerful yet streamlined word processor solution for the masses. Boasting an elegant interface, as well as hundreds of intuitive features such as the ability to read Microsoft Word documents and customizeable headers, footers, endnotes, and footnotes, you will require little need for the documentation. Whether creating a simple letter or composing the next great novel, Mariner Write has the functionality to be your writing tool.
Features
Features
- Microsoft Word "read" capabilities
- Enhance your reports with powerful headers and footers
- Keep documents concise with footnotes and endnotes
- OS X Services support
- Mac OS X Font Smoothing technology
- Use any color" background makes it clearer to see your work
- Share your documents by saving as PDF in fewer steps in OS X
- Mail Merge to automate your next mailing
- Automatic spell checker highlights mistakes as you type
- Stable, more responsive, uses less disk space and memory than the competition
- Mariner Write as little as 2 MB of memory!
- WorldScript savvy supports Kanji and numerous other international scripts
- Dynamic scrolling makes your pages move as you drag the scroll bar
- 80,000+ word spelling dictionary
- Drag and Drop gives you a powerful alternative to cut, copy, and paste
- AutoSave feature lets you work without worrying about losing your file
- WYSIWYG font menus let you see the typeface before using it
- Save your documents to PDF, RTF, and various ASCII text format
What's new in this version:
- Added - Spotlight Support.
- Added - Batch Print Droplet.
- Added - Various New Applescripts.
- Added - Miscellaneous performance enhancements. /li>
- Fixed - Misc. Dictionary & thesaurus fixes.
- Fixed - Window clean-up>Cascade fixed.
- Fixed - An issue where find had issues with unicode text.
- Fixed - An issue pasting images on Intel.
- Fixed - An issue with keyboard shortcuts for style sheets.
- Fixed - An issue where RTF files would immediately get marked dirty.
- Fixed - An issue where find had issues with unicode text.
- Fixed and updated - Mariner Write User Guide.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
- Universal Binary
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Easy, Quick, Functional, Best everyday Word Processor 
- Version: 3.7.2, 4/1/2008 07:24AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
kevjunk
It's a breath of fresh air, in the Mac world, to have a word processor open quickly. Mariner Write opens in one or two seconds on my MacBook 2.2Ghz. Apple's own word processor Pages takes a lot longer, and Microsoft Word 2008 seems to take forever.
The efficiencies of the program don't end there. All of the essential features are quickly accessible and well thought out. I used it to take notes tonight for a non-profit meeting and it worked very well for that.
Things I like about Mariner Write:
Open
- Option to open files from previous session
Fonts
- Hierarchical font menu, and WYSIWYG
Bullet Indent ! (woo hoo!)
Date Format
- Ability to set to many different kinds of formats -- useful.
Ruler
- Paper edge vs. printer edge.
- A full page is readable from a standard MacBook's resolution.
Files
- Can specify the number of backup copies to make. I haven't experimented with this but I think it will be a very handy feature.
File format
- Can specify RTF - Word
Thoughtful touches
- When adding buttons to the toolbar when customizing, there is an Add after and Add before. There is not a move up or move down but that hasn't been too much of a hindrance.
Keyboard shortcut for entering date..
Tables work intuitively
- Can increase a column by dragging from any point in the verticle line
- New rows added automatically when tabbing from last row
- Easy access from the editing window.
Fonts
- Floating font panel that makes it easy to choose fonts, and lets you set up font collections of your favorite fonts.
- Easy font selection at the top of the editing window
- Easy color and highlighting form the editing window
- Choosing from MANY different font styles from the font menu
- Highlighting and font color are at the top of the editing window
Editing
- Remove leading ">", handy for quote in e-mails
Graphics:
- Easy to import
- Text can wrap around a graphic!
- Easy to enlarge graphic proportionally
- Easy to insert graphic into a table cell
Save:
- Save a copy as
Print Envelope
- VERY EASY, DEDICATED FUNCTION FOR THAT
Speak!
- Selection
- All
- Good voice
Insert Rule to separate items is intuitive
Font, Size, and Style all get their own menus which makes it a snap to easily change something.
- Click the font menu then start typing the letters of the font name and you go right to it.
- Click size menu and select size or if you want 18 point just click 1 and 8 then enter
- Click the style menu and select "strike through" or just type s and t, it hightlights then hit enter
To sum it up, it's a word processor that opens fast, that is easy to use, that has all the most used features right there. There may be a rare instance in which I would want to use MS Word over this program but this is my word processor of choice for the vast majority of documents I will be creating.
(and note: I am a power user; in this program the power is the speed, and quick access to the main features usually used)
The efficiencies of the program don't end there. All of the essential features are quickly accessible and well thought out. I used it to take notes tonight for a non-profit meeting and it worked very well for that.
Things I like about Mariner Write:
Open
- Option to open files from previous session
Fonts
- Hierarchical font menu, and WYSIWYG
Bullet Indent ! (woo hoo!)
Date Format
- Ability to set to many different kinds of formats -- useful.
Ruler
- Paper edge vs. printer edge.
- A full page is readable from a standard MacBook's resolution.
Files
- Can specify the number of backup copies to make. I haven't experimented with this but I think it will be a very handy feature.
File format
- Can specify RTF - Word
Thoughtful touches
- When adding buttons to the toolbar when customizing, there is an Add after and Add before. There is not a move up or move down but that hasn't been too much of a hindrance.
Keyboard shortcut for entering date..
Tables work intuitively
- Can increase a column by dragging from any point in the verticle line
- New rows added automatically when tabbing from last row
- Easy access from the editing window.
Fonts
- Floating font panel that makes it easy to choose fonts, and lets you set up font collections of your favorite fonts.
- Easy font selection at the top of the editing window
- Easy color and highlighting form the editing window
- Choosing from MANY different font styles from the font menu
- Highlighting and font color are at the top of the editing window
Editing
- Remove leading ">", handy for quote in e-mails
Graphics:
- Easy to import
- Text can wrap around a graphic!
- Easy to enlarge graphic proportionally
- Easy to insert graphic into a table cell
Save:
- Save a copy as
Print Envelope
- VERY EASY, DEDICATED FUNCTION FOR THAT
Speak!
- Selection
- All
- Good voice
Insert Rule to separate items is intuitive
Font, Size, and Style all get their own menus which makes it a snap to easily change something.
- Click the font menu then start typing the letters of the font name and you go right to it.
- Click size menu and select size or if you want 18 point just click 1 and 8 then enter
- Click the style menu and select "strike through" or just type s and t, it hightlights then hit enter
To sum it up, it's a word processor that opens fast, that is easy to use, that has all the most used features right there. There may be a rare instance in which I would want to use MS Word over this program but this is my word processor of choice for the vast majority of documents I will be creating.
(and note: I am a power user; in this program the power is the speed, and quick access to the main features usually used)
No compatibility with AppleWorks - Version: 3.7.2, 3/29/2007 09:31AM PST
(1 of 3 users found this comment useful)
alwalker_dotmac
I had hoped that Mariner Write & Calc could be used to replace AppleWorks, but apparently there is no ability to open AppleWorks documents.
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- No compatibility with AppleWorks
This version (3.8) is just as bad as the last one. I open a formatted MS Word ".doc" and all the formatting is scrambled.
It happened with all but the most basically (or not-at-all) formatted files.
Useless for me. Sorry