SoftMaker Office
SoftMaker Office is an office suite developed since 1987 by the German company SoftMaker Software GmbH, Nuremberg.
SoftMaker Office 2006 and 2008, previously available for purchase, were later released as freeware, later superseded by SoftMaker FreeOffice.
Components
SoftMaker Office includes:
TextMaker, a word processor
PlanMaker, a spreadsheet application
SoftMaker Presentations, a presentation graphics application that is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint
BasicMaker, a Win32-only VBA-like programming tool
The package SoftMaker Office Professional includes additional
an e-mail client,
a Duden spell checker,
two Duden dictionaries,
four Langenscheidt dictionaries.
Functionality
SoftMaker Office has many functions of office suites such as MS Office, OpenOffice.org or WordPerfect Office, and can also run from USB flash drives and supports integrated reference works. It has its own native formats, and can read and write file formats of Microsoft Office, OpenDocument format (word processor only), RTF and HTML. It can export to PDF. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported, and it has an integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).