jakfish
No, it is not supported (read: hardcoded) on linux. You're advised to post a request on their forum. While this seems a bit unfortunate but read below to understand why ...jakfish wrote:........ Re: softmaker for linux 2006--have you figured out any way to increase size of menubars, menu fonts, etc.? ........
@all interested parties
If you ever wondered why softmaker apps have fantastic speed and small memory footprint, then look at the dependency list ... GTK2 and glibc is not on the list thus reducing a lot of layers ... yeah, software is like onions ... like onions, they have layers ...
Softmaker apps (on linux) uses their own "widget toolkit". Anyone wondered how they could implement those 95/2000/XP/Vista appearance? ..... Well, if you've used XP themes, then you'll know basically how it works ... The use of direct owner painting allows apps skinning but also requires specific support for many functions. The internal menus, fonts, lists and buttons combos have fixed sizes due to this. It has been requested a few times on their forum to allow resize-able menus etc (on linux) ... hopefully with enough people requesting, they'll do something about it ...
(BTW, in my simple tests, upon loading textmaker 2006 linux, top reports roughly 18MB of ram usage.)
Frankly, I prefer textmaker linux anytime compared to abiword/OOwriter. Sure textmaker is proprietary ... but the core functions works fine and it gets the job done right ... Nothing wrong using proprietary software if they do the actual job properly ... I find textmaker to be the perfect answer to fill that gap between abiword and OOwriter. Abiword is cranky with my docs and OOwriter is way too big with functions that I never use.
I own a copy of office2k but I've been using textmaker 2006 windows portable for the past two+ years and now finds that the same .doc documents opens correctly on textmaker 2006 linux. The same cannot be said for abiword ... I also couldn't care less about file formats. I just feed them through a viewer and copy-n-paste back to textmaker if I need to ...
The softmaker office2006 link-to-another-link that jakfish pointed out is for the full free version. The poster in the original link have indicated prior approval for publishing the download. So, grab a copy and give it a test run ... If you like it, register it for the price of free ...
Here's a tip:
Let's say you wanted a portable softmaker running in your flashdrive, just make a copy of /usr/share/office2006 into your flashdrive and create an empty portable.txt (ie. touch portable.txt). This instructs textmaker/planmaker to save all configs in the same folder.
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