On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:15:44 -0500 (EST) jwminer at accessvt.com dijo: >John J. J. wrote: >> Until your message I had never heard of Softmaker or their Office >> suite. I went to their web page and was struck by the almost >> complete >> lack of mention of OOo. I also couldn't find much detail about >> features. > >You probably didn't look far enough. For the Linux version >(SoftMaker Office 2008) see http://softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm >. Follow the links for TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentations down >the page. > >SoftMaker claims that OpenOffice compatibility is much improved in >SoftMaker Office 2010. At this time it's just for Windows, but a >Linux version is forthcoming and is now in its first nonpublic beta >(anyone can sign up to beta test). I have the Windows version of >2010 and Linux 2008 but I don't deal much with compatibility so I >have no opinion or results to report.
Thanks for the location of the details. Now that I have more information I see that there is no macro recorder. Like you, I don't need to deal with compatibility much, but lack of a macro recorder is a deal killer. I am very surprised that I had never heard of Softmaker before.
