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jrb · Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2012, 00:37 Post subject: Softmaker FreeOffice

I just recieved this email from Softmaker. Very Happy

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3200

Yes, I received that email too. It seems to be a cut down version that can open docx and xlsx, for example, but not save to these formats. I haven't downloaded to check that though. Quite useful nevertheless since opening files of these formats is more important than being able to save to them methinks.

greengeek · Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2012, 05:03 Post subject:

I just downloaded it and it looks great. I am running Slacko 5.3 and downloaded the 32 bit .deb version and clicked on it. It didn't seem to add itself to the document menu (even after a restart of X), but I found the textmaker file at /usr/share/freeoffice and just dragged it to the desktop, then selected an icon from /usr/share/freeoffice/icons.

It can read docx, but not create them as far as I can tell.

This looks fantastic. I will have a play for a few weeks on different puppies, then I will probably pay for the 2012 Softmaker Office package to get the full docx capability.

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Got the email today in my inbox and decided to grab a copy myself.

http://www.loadandhelp.com/home-en.html

or

http://www.freeoffice.com/en/download/freeoffice

All you need to do is provide your name/email and they send you a message with the download links and a serial number.

Language dictionaries can be found here:

http://www.freeoffice.com/en/download/dictionaries

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3200

I've been using 2008 for Linux in the past and a couple of years ago bought SO 2010 for Linux which reads and saves docx format.

Though I've found Softmaker office pretty good, 2010 is much slower than 2008 on my Puppy Linux. But, more seriously, if I have more than one complex textmaker document open and save results after an editing session, the resultant saved file sometimes gets corrupted (a mix of bits from the other files). Corruption has occurred using either textmaker 2008 or 2010.

Anyone else ever experience a similar problem?

BarryK · Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2012, 07:03 Post subject:

I would like you guys feedback on FreeOffice. I am in contact with someone at Softmaker, and there is the possibility of compiling FreeOffice optimised for Puppy, and including it in an official release of Puppy.

So, I would like to get feedback from users of FreeOffice!

Terryphi · Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2012, 07:28 Post subject:

Does Planmaker open spreadsheets in the Libreoffice/OpenOffice format?
Features section on website makes no mention of this.

johnrpm · Joined: 12 Jun 2012 Posts: 13

I downloaded the tarball and precise asked if it was a package, answered yes and it installed to the document menu, added the
registration info and it works, I am amazed because things do not usually work out of the box for me as a noob.
I shall have a play with it, but I feel a bit guilty not sticking with open source, I have been trying to get the wife over to linux for some time, so this may help.

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

I'm downloading the .tar.gz package, they say it's got a script to help install, I'll test and tell later.

As far as I remember, I could both open and create ODF format documents with SoftMaker Office 2008. It never had any errors, but I missed the more flexible handling of tables from LibreOffice, I find this latter more comfortable to insert and edit tables in documents. However, SoftMaker Office 2008 is smaller and does what I need.

L18L · Last edited by L18L on Sat 15 Dec 2012, 06:43; edited 2 times in total

jrb · Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2012, 15:12 Post subject:

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

I've downloaded the .tgz package, extracted and clicked the script. It installed FreeOffice, but I had to fixmenus from terminal, then I tried to open TextMaker from the menu, I got an error. From terminal I typed textmakerfree and despite a few more errors it launched textmaker. This happened to me on Wary 5.4 beta 2.

Okeh · Joined: 21 Mar 2012 Posts: 17

smokey01 · Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2012, 21:22 Post subject:

I didn't notice a 64 bit version.

Is one available?

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268