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I could probably justify a minimal one-off fee That is part of the problem. You paid more than 70 Euro for the Handheld PC version, but now you can just afford a "minimal one-off fee" for the iOS version. For that, we not only have to give you the current version, but all new versions wou...

I kind of agree with the OP. I was excited about the iOS app, having been with Softmaker for over 20 years now (I still have Softmaker 2002 on my HP Jornada 720 handheld PC - and it's working fine!). I downloaded the app, but then saw that I couldn't print from it without paying on ongoing fee. I co...

It's been many years since the days when I was a huge advocate of Softmaker Office (beginning when I ran it on my H/PC Jornada 720 - and that still works today). My last post here was about 4 years ago. I moved back to Microsoft Office for a number of reasons, but the main one was price. I'm not say...

Although not frequently, I still run Windows XP here. I run it in a Virtual Machine due to Windows 8 not playing nice with some old software I need to use, and also on an old netbook because it doesn't have the space & hardware to accommodate Windows 8. The old netbook is a perfectly fine machin...

Frankly, the attractive prices that you are seeing for Playbook indicate that RIM is trying to clear stock. This is not a good omen for software developers evaluating the platform. I'm not sure how that changes the fact that there are now over two million PlayBook owners - far more people in the po...

I wouldn't have asked if I'd not found that site that had converted many Android .apk apps to Blackberry .bar files. If it could be done with all those apps without having to rework them from scratch, I just thought it might be a way for Softmaker to tap another market. Softmaker always used to be t...

Now that I have my Playbook, I can see that it would be an excellent device on which to run Softmaker (just Textmaker and Planmaker would be great additions). The hardware itself is much better than my budget Android tablet (that I don't use much due to the poor picture quality and lousy battery lif...

Do other Android app writers use something other than C++ then? Excuse my ignorance, but I just read on that site about how 1,000+ Android (.apk) apps had been adapted to be Blackberry (.bar) files. They do say that some aren't able to be converted, but there's no mention of C++ that I've found. It'...

I've just run across this thread again because Googling for Softmaker on Blackberry brought up this result. On a related note, have you considered using the Android compatibility runtime to deliver SoftMaker office to the BlackBerry PlayBook and future BlackBerry phones? Given the price of Blackberr...

I suspect it's because Microsoft don't seem to want to offer a traditional model Office Suite anymore. They appear to be pushing "Office 365" - a subscription based model that you pay for every month/year (failure to pay stops the software from working, apparently). It's their way of guara...

But if LibreOffice doesn't attempt to provide collaboration features, why should we mark it down in the final reckoning for not including them? What a bizarre criteria. Using that criteria, I'm surprised they don't give the highest rating for an Office Suite to the card game "Solitaire". ...

While there is mention for iOS in the article, there's no mention of Android. Logically, this would primarily be a Windows 8/RT app, given that iOS already has Pages/Numbers/Keynote, and Android has the likes of Softmaker Office and others. What does Windows Phone 8 have right now? The user would ha...

What children wish for and what they're going to get might be two entirely different things (particularly here in the UK). The full report, here: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/u-s-kids-continue-to-look-forward-to-iholiday/ indicates that it's just the 6-12 year age group that has a 48...

I've used Softmaker Office since my old H/PC Jornada 720 (which still works). Today, I have an iPad (first gen), iPod Touch (2nd gen), 7" tablet (Android 4), and I've just replaced my ageing Android phone with a 4.3" model (Android 4). While it would be nice to have Softmaker for my Apple ...

In case anyone's interested in trying Softmaker on an older/unsupported Android, I've just downloaded the beta of Textmaker to my Samsung Galaxy Portal running Android 2.1. It downloaded and installed okay. It's a bit slow on opening. I was able to open a txt document from my Dropbox, but all I get...