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Atlantis is an innovative, no-nonsense word processor carefully designed with the end-user in mind. Compact, fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient, Atlantis will be the perfect companion for a wide range of your word processing tasks, – from simple to most complex.
It does not matter if you are a novice or a power user, Atlantis has the tools you will ever need to compose highly professional documents. Using a most original and practical Control Board, you will create and manage all components of complex documents with unparalleled ease: sections, fields, headers & footers, newspaper columns, bulleted & numbered lists, styles, bookmarks, footnotes & endnotes, etc, all are a breeze with Atlantis.
Both the Safeguard and Backup Files features make sure that you work under extremely safe conditions. Private documents can also be encoded and secured: you can save them to a proprietary COD file format using powerful 256-bit encryption technology.
The Atlantis AutoCorrect and Spellcheck-As-You-Type features combine with a unique typing assist, the Atlantis Power Type, to dramatically simplify your word processing life.
The Atlantis interface is entirely customizable: menus, toolbars, hot keys, colors and sounds can all be adjusted to suit your own requirements. What’s more, Atlantis is a fully portable word processor. You can install Atlantis to a memory flash drive, and Atlantis will travel with you wherever you go.
And much-much more for you to discover…
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http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/downloads.htm
AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor.
Like most Open Source projects, AbiWord started as a cathedral, but has become more like a bazaar. AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project’s word processor.
SourceGear released the source code to AbiWord and a developer community quickly formed around the project. SourceGear has since then stopped working on the project.
The developer community has since then continued to make improvements and increase the quality of AbiWord. Version 1.0 was released in April 2002, followed by Version 2.0 in September 2003, 2.2 in December 2004 and 2.4 in September 2005.
Download:
http://www.abisource.com/download/
To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.
OpenOffice.org is an office suite you can download completely free of charge, which is quite the bargain, especially when you consider that it’s not a load of old tat. Not even close, in fact. This is a fully functioning office suite that’s compatible with Microsoft Office files, consisting of a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc) and presentation (Impress) programs, along with a database (Base) and a vector drawing tool (Draw).
This is quite simply incredibly well featured for a free download. Writer offers a range of wizards (from letter templates through to a font wizard that allows the user to download fonts from the Internet), a PDF export facility, full word count, spell checker, auto-complete and auto-correct functions (the latter is very smartly implemented), a huge range of formatting options… basically, everything you’d expect from a fully-fledged word processor.
About the only downside is that things can go a little pear shaped when dealing with Microsoft Office documents containing heavy formatting, tables and suchlike, but in our tests we found it dealt with some of the fiddlier docs we threw at it better than our other word processor (WordPerfect), which was quite surprising. When dealing with Excel files in Calc, we also found the suite handled importing them just fine, and with version 2.2 OpenOffice’s Excel support has been improved (for example, it can now handle Excel files containing Pivot Tables drawn from external data).
So what else is new with version 2.2 of the suite? A number of tweaks have been implemented to solve some security issues, which is an invisible but welcome step. Various minor adjustments have been made to streamline the interface across the board and the result is an even slicker experience for the user. And naturally, there’s a huge raft of bug fixes.
We can’t stress enough how impressive this is for a freebie suite. Both Writer and Calc in particular perform admirably compared to full-priced rivals, and Impress and Base are right up there in terms of power and usability.
As this is an open source project, one obvious weakness is that there’s no customer support provided, aside from searching through and/or posting on the Web site’s forums. Essentially it boils down to a matter of time versus money: if you can’t take the time to scour the community message boards for your support if things go awry, and you really can’t afford to take any chances, then you’re best off forking out for a full-priced office suite. But that’s really the only downside.
URL: www.openoffice.org
