TextMaker
Home page: http://softmaker.com
Status: 
TextMaker is a word processor for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and several portable devices. It is part of the SoftMaker Office suite.
Reviewer: J David Eisenberg (23 Nov 2006)
Review method: Tested on a 50-page document.
A very quick look at it shows that it did a reasonable job rendering a 50-page document. An image anchored as character on the first page was missing.
A lot of the text has a charcter style "HTML Code"; that entry appears in the list in the "Character Style..." dialog box. However, the text I highlighted was listed as "Normal" style, courier font.
I can't "save as" OpenDocument text.
The planmaker software doesn't open .ods files at all.
Its own internal format appears to be some proprietary binary format.
Notes:
- Support is limited to import. TextMaker cannot write OpenDocument files.
- There is a free, light-weight TextMaker viewer based on the same engine as TextMaker itself. It can serve as an OpenDocument viewer.
Version: 2006
| File type | Import | Export | Native | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | .odt | Yes | No | No |
| Drawing | .odg | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Spreadsheet | .ods | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Presentation | .odp | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Commments:
It's great that SoftMaker (the company behind TextMaker) is working hard to support the OpenDocument format. We wish them success.