It's here! SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PCs is now in public beta testing. You can download and try out the new generation of the mobile office software from SoftMaker.
In an ideal world, you could create a file in Microsoft Office on your desktop computer, put it on your Pocket PC, edit and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office, with content and all formatting still intact.
Unfortunately, it does not work that way. Microsoft's Office Mobile is, after all these years, still not able to reliably open Microsoft Office files without massive data loss – all functions and formatting that it does not know, are silently stripped and thrown away. After Office Mobile touched them, many files share only a distant resemblance with their older versions.
Enter SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PCs. This full-featured office suite lets you open, edit, and save any Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file on your Pocket PC. Directly and without conversion, retaining all the formatting, functions, and contents of your Office files.
SoftMaker Office 2008: The only desktop-quality office suite for your Pocket PC
SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PCs is the only full-fledged office suite for Pocket PCs. It offers the complete feature set of a modern desktop office suite right on your Pocket PC.
Good riddance to Microsoft's puny Office Mobile! SoftMaker Office 2008 is here.
SoftMaker Office 2008 comes with the following applications:
Word processor: TextMaker 2008
Spreadsheet: PlanMaker 2008
Presentation graphics: SoftMaker Presentations 2008
NEW: TextMaker 2008
Word processor
NEW: PlanMaker 2008
Spreadsheet
NEW: SoftMaker Presentations 2008
Presentation graphics
SoftMaker Office lets you do on a Pocket PC what you can do with Microsoft Office on your Windows PC. Imagine having a full-fledged office suite in your pocket!
Furthermore, SoftMaker Office 2008 is not only available for Pocket PCs, but also for Windows and soon for Linux and Windows CE. You can exchange your documents, without conversion, between all these platforms.
NEW: SoftMaker Presentations 2008: now on your Pocket PC!
SoftMaker Presentations 2008 is the only Pocket PC application worldwide that lets you edit PowerPoint files on the Pocket PC without file conversion and without loss of quality.
All elements of PowerPoint files are preserved, among others:
all types of formatting
all slide transitions and animations
all slide designs and color schemes
all graphics, drawings, and backgrounds
all notes and comments
... simply everything that could be in a PowerPoint file!
But highest compatibility is not the only advantage of SoftMaker Presentations: It offers the complete feature set of a desktop presentations program. You can create, edit, and manage slides, insert and edit all types of drawings, graphics, and tables ... even apply all animations and transitions that you know from PowerPoint, etc. etc.
SoftMaker Presentations 2008
on the Pocket PC
Numerous ready-made design templates make it easy for you to effortlessly create
elegant presentations. If you you don't like a chosen design, simply switch to another template or create your own one – with slide masters, placeholders, color schemes, and all the other features that you know from professional presentation programs.
Choose among numerous pre-built designs
Edit color schemes to your liking
The Slide menu with its numerous options
NEW: TextMaker 2008: Word processing on highest level.
Since TextMaker made its debut on the Pocket PC in 2003, it has earned itself an excellent reputation: There is no alternative to TextMaker if you need professional word processing on the Pocket PC, and there is no other mobile word processor that opens and writes Word documents as accurately as TextMaker.
The 2008 version improves on its predecessor TextMaker 2006 yet again. It adds many important new features:
NEW: Create PDF files directly with TextMaker – optionally with font embedding and even as fillable forms
NEW: Print directly from TextMaker – on a wide range of printers by using "Jetcet Print" or, without any additional software, directly to Bluetooth-capable PostScript printers
NEW: Reading and writing of Microsoft Word files has been improved yet again.
NEW: You can now save documents in the OpenDocument format, making it easy to exchange files with OpenOffice.org.
NEW: Apply borders or shadings to whole pages, change the vertical alignment of whole pages
NEW: Copy stylesheets between documents using the new built-in stylesheet manager.
NEW: Objects and graphics can now be anchored to tables. This does not only improve import of Word files but also offers additional layout options.
NEW: Toolbar with built-in word counter
NEW: Menus and dialogs are now also available in Dutch, Italian, and Bulgarian
... and many more improvements!
NEW: PlanMaker 2008: Calculate and present data like in Windows.
PlanMaker is the only spreadsheet for the Pocket PC that offers the userfriendliness and capabilities of professional desktop spreadsheet packages like Microsoft Excel. A huge number of calculation functions, Excel-compatible charting, AutoShapes, drawings etc. – no other spreadsheet does that on the Pocket PC!
Probably the most valuable feature: PlanMaker reads and writes all Excel files seamlessly. If you need to reliably read and write Excel files on the Pocket PC, you can always count on PlanMaker.
PlanMaker 2008 builds upon its predecessor PlanMaker 2006 and offers important new functions:
NEW: Create PDF files directly with PlanMaker
NEW: Print directly from PlanMaker – on a wide range of printers by using "Jetcet Print" or, without any additional software, directly to Bluetooth-capable PostScript printers
NEW: New automatic functions such as AutoSum and AutoProduct help you fill out worksheets more quickly.
NEW: QuickInfos give useful hints about formulas right when you create or edit them.
NEW: PlanMaker 2008 now comes with more than 330 calculation functions.
NEW: Menus and dialogs are now also available in Dutch, Italian, and Bulgarian
... and many more improvements!
System requirements
Any Pocket PC with StrongARM or Xscale CPU
Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5, or Windows Mobile 6
Installation on a memory card is recommended
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofpbetareg_en.htm
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