IBM Lotus Word Pro

Infobox_Software
name = IBM Lotus Word Pro



caption =
developer = IBM
latest_release_version = 9.8.5
latest_release_date = 2007
operating_system = Microsoft Windows
genre = Word processor
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/smartsuite/wordpro.html www.ibm.com]

Lotus Word Pro is word processor software produced by IBM's Lotus Software group for use on Microsoft Windows-compatible computers and on IBM OS/2 Warp. Word Pro can be obtained as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite.

Word Pro was based upon Ami Pro (published by Samna), but was substantially rewritten (including a new native document format). The predecessor to Ami Pro, Amí, was released in 1988, and was the first fully-functional Windows word processor. (The Windows version of Microsoft Word would not debut until early 1989.) Shortly after the release of Amí, the development team added support for tables and renamed the product Ami Pro.

Lotus obtained Ami Pro to round out their office suite by acquiring Samna, and continued to develop Ami Pro further, with version 3 becoming a 32-bit application available for Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2. The Windows versions of Ami Pro were also bundled with Adobe Type Manager for Windows, as Windows had poor support for scalable fonts before the introduction of TrueType.

In 1994, Joe Guthridge was one of seven awarded the Windows Pioneer Award for feedback the Amí development team gave to Microsoft during the early development of Windows.

ee also

* Comparison of office suites

External links

* [http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/smartsuite/wordpro.html Lotus Word Pro page]
* [http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/smartsuite/ Lotus SmartSuite page]
* [http://www.lotus.com/ldd/ssforum.nsf?OpenDatabase SmartSuite technical forum]
* [ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/Kvlotus.exe Free viewer for Lotus SmartSuite products (EXE)]
* [http://www.unitedgames.co.uk/may2003.pdf Videogames fanzine made using Ami Pro 3.0, showing off the word processor's desktop publishing-like abilities]