Hope on the Horizon for Word Processing on QT

[Zuber]

Just had a quick play. Still very much Beta... but very impressive.

[jagrka]

I\'m excited about the possibility of having a REAL wordprocessor for the Z. Does anyone know the timetable for the release of the Zaurus version?

[wirawan0]

OT: is there a free version of wordprocessor on Z?

[yzord]

Yes, it\'s called Hancom word!  Okay, being a little cheeky there. The only other free \"proper\" (ie. not an extended text editor) word processor is Abiword, but you\'ll have to run Xqt or flash to PdaXrom to use it (obviously, you\'d need a C7x0 to get it working right, as Abiword is a 640x480 app).

Oh, and as to timetable, none of us on the beta team no as of yet, however, at the pace of updates and bugfixes as well as the current state of the program (pretty dang solid), I would assume it isnt going to be too far off. If you do heavy/serious wordprocessing, it\'s definitely worth the price (and you might get a license to use it on an desktop linux as well, if they follow the same sale model).

Yz

[padishah_emperor]

Not too sure of it being pretty dang solid, I\'m doing the beta, but would not buy it. There seems to be a scrolling/speed problem on my 860 but I can\'t find a cause or replicate the problem consistantly.

So far, I haven\'t seen anything better than Hancom word, for MY needs, AbiWord (as with all \'desktop\' Linux apps) takes too long to load on the Z.

[yzord]

As far as I\'m concerned, it\'s pretty dang solid for a beta that just came out _less than a month_ ago. Speed is certainly a concern, but try loading a ]50k document into Hancom Word and see how quick it bogs down to even slower than TM, and I\'m not even getting into the horrendous round-tripping problems HW has. I\'d expect more speed optimization after the bugs have been ironed out.

Personally, I feel that HW is more like a fancy text editor than a real word processor, IMO - it\'s great if your needs are for very light text-editing. Unfortunately, for any serious writing (ie. word processing), I feel it\'s fairly useless. But, as always, these are my opinions, and I\'m glad Textmaker is out to offer me a choice.

Yz

[padishah_emperor]

Hi Yz
I do a lot of wordprocessing, but mainly for writing personal stuff under 10 A4 pages, I have never had the issues that others have.  But for those who want a \'bigger\' wordprocessor, TextMaker is a better choice than AbiWord for sure.  But I am to be convinced, if we beta testers are going to get a gratis copy then I\'ll switch of course, otherwise no. But I agree with you completely, the fact it is an option is good for all.  

I wonder if it runs on OPIE or pdaXrom though? It could be a killer app for those users.
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[Ling]

Maybe I am a dope, but I would be interested in a cutdown port of OpenOffice for Zaurus. Particularly if they could follow the lead of the Mozilla team and make it modular. I don\'t want a bunch of hassle moving documents between my Z, my home PC and my work PC (which is XP/Office).

[padishah_emperor]

No, that isn\'t going to happen :-) I think that would be too much of a re-write for a poor Z porter, but if you want to get me a team of programmers and some money to pay them, I\'ll get right on with it today ;-)

Your best bet is to wait for and buy TextMaker