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Title: Textmaker Review
Post by: Ian on March 28, 2005, 07:48:44 pm

TextMaker is a truly excellent word/document processor; I just posted a (belated) review on bargainPDA (http://www.bargainpda.com/), with a fair number of screen shots and so on.

If you want the tool I used to make the GIF animations, I can post that too, but it's just a wrapper for imagemagic - it really takes the work out of manually rotating, GIFfing and combining all those BMPs!!

Best Regards
Ian.

Title: Textmaker Review
Post by: g333 on March 28, 2005, 08:05:45 pm

I tried that software but it was not that good. It wouldn't let me enter anything besides English and kept crashing when I tried to use the handwriting recognition software to enter Japanese characters.  

If you only need it for English it is quite nice.

Glen

Title: Textmaker Review
Post by: kahm on March 29, 2005, 12:17:59 am

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I tried that software but it was not that good. It wouldn't let me enter anything besides English and kept crashing when I tried to use the handwriting recognition software to enter Japanese characters.  

If you only need it for English it is quite nice.

Glen
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You're right about not being able to enter Japanese. Attempting to use the handwriting recognition for Japanese didn't crash my 860 though - nothing happened at all, and the program was fully responsive afterwards.

Title: Textmaker Review
Post by: g333 on March 30, 2005, 07:36:07 am

Reinstalling the program stopped it crashing but I can't type in Japanese no matter what I do.  

Title: Textmaker Review
Post by: ev1l on March 31, 2005, 08:16:35 pm

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Reinstalling the program stopped it crashing but I can't type in Japanese no matter what I do. 
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It's probably just not aware of Unicode. simplifies the coding, but kinda kills the target market.

Title: Textmaker Review
Post by: kahm on March 31, 2005, 11:01:03 pm

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Reinstalling the program stopped it crashing but I can't type in Japanese no matter what I do. 
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It's probably just not aware of Unicode. simplifies the coding, but kinda kills the target market.
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I found a file in the home directory on my 860 from Textmaker. It specifically says it doesn't support Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, as it doesn't support 2 byte character encoding.

Doesn't bother me too much - I use zeditor for what little Japanese editing I do.