TextMaker

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TextMaker
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Original author(s)SoftMaker
Initial release1987[1][2]
Stable release
2021
Operating systemMS Windows, MacOS Linux, Android
LicenseProprietary (commercial or freeware/registerware)
Websitehttps://www.softmaker.com/en/softmaker-office-textmaker

TextMaker is a word processor developed by the German company SoftMaker and available as part of the SoftMaker office suite. TextMaker is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android. Some reduced versions of TextMaker are released as freeware.[3]

History[]

Development of TextMaker started in 1987 under MS-DOS.[4] The program aims at utmost compatibility with Microsoft Word (adding some proprietary features like an object mode for working with frames or a simple built-in database functionality). It reads and writes its own document format (.tmd), Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx), OpenDocument (.odt), Pocket Word (.psw, .pwd), Rich Text Format (.rtf), HTML 4.0 (.htm), and plain text files (.txt). It can also open OpenOffice.org XML (.sxw) files. The default document format can be .tmdx, .tmd, .docx, .doc, .rtf, or .odt.

Multilingual features include a five language translation dictionary, a thesaurus in ten languages, spell checking in 17, hyphenation in 29, and user interface in 14 languages.

VBA-compatible scripting is supported through SoftMaker's scripting language, called BasicMaker, which is part of its SoftMaker Office suite for Windows.

For mobile use, TextMaker can be run from a USB stick without changing any registry or system files of the host PC.

Latest versions[]

It is the only word processor worldwide to support all these systems. Furthermore, the user interface is as similar as possible across all supported platforms; the PDA versions are full-fledged versions rather than scaled-down versions lacking much of the functionality of the desktop version.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Andy Updegrove (2006-07-05). "The Emerging ODF Environment, Part IV: Spotlight on SoftMaker Office 2006 (1987: Company founded; TextMaker 1.0 for MS-DOS released)". Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  2. ^ a b SoftMaker Software GmbH. "Timeline of our software releases". Retrieved 2011-05-31.
  3. ^ "FreeOffice". Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  4. ^ "SoftMaker's product history". www.softmaker.com. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  5. ^ "No more TextMaker for FreeBSD". 2007-10-30. Retrieved 2011-05-31.

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