SoftMaker Office

SoftMaker Office

Original author(s)	SoftMaker
Initial release	1994 (1994)
Stable release	2012
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, Pocket PCs, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Qtopia
License	Proprietary (commercial or freeware/registerware)
Website	www.softmaker.com www.freeoffice.com

SoftMaker Office is an office suite developed since 1987 by the German company SoftMaker Software GmbH, Nuremberg.

SoftMaker Office 2006 and 2008, previously available for purchase, were later released as freeware, later superseded by SoftMaker FreeOffice.

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

The package SoftMaker Office Professional includes additional

• an e-mail client,
• a Duden spell checker,
• two Duden dictionaries,
• four Langenscheidt dictionaries.

Functionality

SoftMaker Office has many functions of office suites such as MS Office, OpenOffice.org or WordPerfect Office, and can also run from USB flash drives and supports integrated reference works. It has its own native formats, and can read and write file formats of Microsoft Office, OpenDocument format (word processor only), RTF and HTML. It can export to PDF. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported, and it has an integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).

The user interface is similar to Microsoft Office's.

See also

• Comparison of word processors
• Comparison of spreadsheets

External links

• SoftMaker Software
• SoftMaker FreeOffice (official site with info & downloads)