SoftMaker Office

SoftMaker Office

Original author(s)	SoftMaker
Initial release	1994[1][2]
Stable release	2010
Preview release	2011[3]
Operating system	MS Windows, Linux, Android, Pocket PCs, Windows CE
License	Proprietary (commercial or freeware/registerware)

SoftMaker Office is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows CE, and the Pocket PC, developed since 1989 by the German company SoftMaker Software GmbH, Nuremberg.

Some previously commercial versions of SoftMaker Office were later released as freeware (SoftMaker Office 2006 and SoftMaker Office 2008)^[4][5][6].

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

Functionality

SoftMaker Office has many functions of the correspondent programs from MS Office, OpenOffice.org or WordPerfect Office and also adds features such as its ability to run off USB flash drives and integrated reference works. It uses not only its own native formats, but is also highly compatible with Microsoft Office file formats. It can read and write Microsoft Office file formats as well as OpenDocument Format (word processor only), RTF and HTML. Export to PDF function is included. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported; furthermore an integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).

The user interface is based on Microsoft Office's look and feel.

See also

• Comparison of office suites
• Comparison of word processors
• Comparison of spreadsheets

References

1. ^ Andy Updegrove (2006-07-05). "The Emerging ODF Environment, Part IV: Spotlight on SoftMaker Office 2006". http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2006070509040463. Retrieved 2010-03-28. 
2. ^ "Infos zu PlanMaker 97". 1997-06-03. Archived from the original on 1997-06-03. http://web.archive.org/web/19970603185443/http://www.softmaker.de/planmake.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-28. 
3. ^ "How SoftMaker Office for Android is progressing". http://softmaker.com/english/blog/?p=194. Retrieved 2011-05-24. 
4. ^ "SoftMaker Office 2008 now available for free". 2011-05-22. http://www.softmaker.com/newsletter/2011-05-22-e.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-24. 
5. ^ "SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows". 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-03-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20090314112527/http://www.softmakeroffice.com/. Retrieved 2011-05-31. 
6. ^ "Register SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows". http://www.softmaker.de/reg/ofw06freefull_en.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-31. 

External links

• SoftMaker Software
• SoftMaker Office 2010 product page
• SoftMaker Office 2010 trial download page
• SoftMaker Office 2008 freeware download page
• SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows CE/Handheld PC (Review)
• SoftMaker Office 2006 freeware (Review)
• Ashampoo/SoftMaker Office 2008 freeware download page