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Old 05-02-2018, 06:18 AM   #1
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Office Automation - Text editing / Word processing

Happily, I just restarted the activities related to text editing sive word processing.

Before going into details: using old Kingsoft's "Writer" software on the Max2 is immensely fantastic.
Most of the problems I met in the past are gone, and effortlessly from the user side - the firmware seems well optimized.

The interest is towards featureful software that allows efficient editing of rich text in a "what you see is what you get" manner, and supports what has been basic for the past three decades on desktop software (font faces, sizes, weigh and variants, margins, indentations, justification etc.).
The tablet must be of course coupled with a hardware keyboard, normally BlueTooth.

I have done sessions using the alternative way of using typical desktop Office Automation software through the HDMI way, and there are pros and cons: the pros being the full-featured environment (two pages per screen in landscape, all of the commands, the navigation options etc.), the cons being the non-paradigmatic system (so e.g. I could not find a way to center the pages in the screen) and limitations in the current implementation (the non 1:1 resolution makes the text slightly blurry; sustained battery drain and on many devices etc.).

I have again tried a few alternatives in the Android realm - current WPS, Softmaker's TextMaker, Mobisystems's suite, AndrOpen Office, LibreOfficeViewer [-AndExperimentalEditor]. Others, I directly discarded: Polaris, GoogleDocs, Microsoft - solutions that for necessity or their own to-be-kept-personal decision demand an Internet connection to work (of course, I work offline).

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