In Edit mode, however, the font used for card symbols did not display correctly. Word Online in Reading mode was pretty much perfect. We also took a look in Word Online on Ubuntu, using Firefox.
We copied the torture-test document to an Ubuntu system and tried opening it in both LibreOffice and TextMaker.
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It is worth noting too that there is an interaction with the printer driver in word processor documents, so you will not necessarily get exactly the same appearance on different computers even with Word. In other words, it is a challenging compatibility test. It has card symbols, multiple tables, two columns, and if anything goes slightly wrong with the precise space occupied by the content in each cell, the document soon gets mangled.
The formatting is tight as it must fit on two sides of A4. Is SoftMaker Office really better than LibreOffice for Microsoft Office formats? Your correspondent is a bridge player and there is Word document in circulation (with a million variations) that describes the intricacies of the game's conventions. Microsoft Office compatibility: Is SoftMaker better? SoftMaker has perhaps a tidier user interface, including the ribbon UI which LibreOffice lacks, but is behind on some features.
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Unfortunately for SoftMaker, the free LibreOffice is a capable performer and developing rapidly. But Microsoft Word does not run on Linux – well, not without Wine or other trickery, so this is another option there. It is good to support alternatives to products from huge corporations like Microsoft, but why use SoftMaker Office? This is being typed in TextMaker and little things like unnecessary hyphenation and inferior font rendering are obvious. There is even "New OLE Object" in the menu, in the Windows version, complete with Windows 95 dialogue styling, one of a few occasions where the product feels dated. Not much new then, but a quick spin with the suite shows that it has all the essentials these are feature-rich products.
There are tweaks to footnotes, endnotes and cross-references, new navigation features, a few new functions in PlanMaker, and a new option in Presentations to create a standalone slide show. There is a new database module for mail merge which uses SQLite "in addition to dBase databases" (yes, this does feel like going back in time). There is integration with an open-source citation management system called Zotero. What's new in SoftMaker Office 2021? Not a great deal, it seems. SoftMaker has options for both menu diehards and ribbon lovers
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