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RE: Features
My big question is whether 'hi-res' fonts means that they will include special fonts specifically for the 320x320 clie screens (and 240x240/320 HandEra screens) or if they only have one set of "true type" fonts for all devices (i.e. only 160x160 support)
RE: Hi-Res?
With this in mind, I've edited the article to remove any reference to "hi-res". I could be wrong but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trashing WordSmith 2.0. I think improving the look of fonts without changing the screens is great. I'm just trying to be accurate.
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RE: Features
RE: font on grayscale..
"Hi-Res" FineType font
http://grc.com/ctwhat.htm
Basically it can "triple" the horizontal resolution, making a 5x7 font looking like a 15x7 font. And it is screen resolution independent; i.e. it should work with both Clie 320x320 and Palm/Prism's 160x160 screen.
Lawrence
lawrence@vex.net
RE: "Hi-res" Fine-Type Font
> should work with both Clie 320x320 and Palm/Prism's
> 160x160 screen.
This is only true IF they support Clie's 320x320 resolution and render their sub-pixel support at THAT resolution, not doubling pixels as default apps do. SuperDoc does not work properly on a Clie because it defaults to 160x160 pixel-doubling, which doesn't resolve the color-pixels properly on the Clie.
So the app must support the Clie's hi-res to take advantage of the "ClearType"-style properties of these screens. (Note also that anti-aliasing alone still makes things look a lot better, even on mono-chrome screens.)
zane
FineType
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RE: FineType
RE: FineType
RE: FineType
RE: FineType
After checking out the FineType I went over to the PocketPC booth to check out MS cleartype on an ipaq. I found that even with the palms low resolution that the new version of WordSmith was just as good, if not better than the MicroSoft ebook reader.
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RE: Upgrade price?
Sincerely,
Bobby Genest
Blue Nomad Software
www.bluenomad.com
Blue Nomad
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RE: Upgrade price?
--Satisfied registered WordSmith user
What about clie and expansion memory?
Other feature more important
RE: Other feature more important
RE: Other feature more important
important to me.
What will be important to me is the ability to keep tables and images. Much of what I write
has figures. Wordsmith copies the original document, keeping it separate from the common
document used to sync between Word and the Palm. The original document retains the figures,
but the common document loses them; they aren't even in the Word version of the common
document anymore. It will be nice to have them retained and avoid keeping figures in a separate
file altogether.
Barry
RE: Other feature more important
1 MB App
Better than PPC Word!
RE: Better than PPC Word!
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RE: Better than PPC Word!
RE: Better than PPC Word!
--GrouchoMarx
my poor desktop!
PS: I'm not sure about the SD or Mem Stick support, But don't be too concerned. I pulled down a good sized book which is a good inch thick in paperback form, and it took less than 225k of Palm RAM.
PS: PS: Yes it's late, but I'm awake this time!
RE: my poor desktop!
Hooray for Footnotes!!
Not only could you not add footnotes, but if there were existing footnotes on a document they would be wiped out when you brought in onto your handheld device. Even worse, the footnotes would be wiped off the original the next time you synched! (again, this was also the fatal flaw in MS Word for CE...)
If we will, in fact, now be able to preserve, add and modify footnotes, then Wordsmith has truly torn the top off this product category with its new release. I'd written to them about this in the past and they'd answered that they were working on it, but this is the first announcement I've seen that they'd achieved this essential upgrade.
If it works as advertised then Bravo! Well done!
And thank you!
Michael Pelikan
Wow.
Eston Bond
CEO Pine Tree Software
http://www.pinetreesoftware.net/
RE: Price for upgrade?
improved find feature?
WordPerfect Support
First, it does not have native support WordPerfect, a feature I need it to have and is virtually a requirement. The ability to convert .rtf files is just not enough.
Second, unless this has changed in the recent versions, this program required a lot of free space to open a document, even a regular doc file that was not set to be edited. My Palm is always packed. And the notion that I would need significant free space on it to open and read even a doc file is somewhat of a burden. Thus I thought that the memory management of the program could use some improvement.
WS vs. Pedit
RE: WS vs. Pedit
RE: how does it compare to P!
WHEN!!!!???
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Features
Will these extra features take up a quarter of the screen, making it difficult to edit large documents?
Hopefully, it won't. What does everyone else think?
(First comment, hurray!)
Phil M.