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I self-publish books through Amazon KDP. The preferred upload to Amazon is a PDF with fonts embedded.

I just tried to create a PDF from a third-party program (app) using the FlexiPDF virtual printer. The page size of the document is 6 inches by 9 inches (a standard book size in the U.S.). FlexiPDF ...

Michael Uplawski wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 7:14 am

Woody44 wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 6:59 pm If SoftMaker hopes to achieve acceptance by U.S. governmental offices or by any company or entity that does business with a governmental agency

Later.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

Michael Uplawski wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:27 am AFAIS, PDF/UA is based on PDF 2.0 and standardization is still in progress.

PDF/UA-1 has been around since 2012 and is the current standard in the U.S. PDF/UA-2 is what is still in development, and that is not yet a required standard in most of the U.S.

Yeah, that is surprising. SoftMaker Office usually focuses on performance and compatibility, but missing PDF/UA support feels like a big gap, especially for accessibility. With Microsoft Office and LibreOffice already supporting it, hopefully it’s something they prioritize soon.


Here in the ...

Will the improvements only be in SoftMaker Office NX? I have SoftMaker Office Professional -- will that also receive the additional spreadsheet functions?

Has this glitch been fixed yet?

If SoftMaker knows that the discrepancy is caused by counting punctuation as words, then SoftMaker can fix it. LibreOffice Writer and Microsoft Word agree on the word count. Softaker TextMaker should NOT be off by 31 words.

This kind of sorting error is usually caused by not selecting all the columns involved in the data set you want to sort. In PlanMaker, simply highlighting two (or more) columns doesn't ensure that both will be sorted together. When you tell it to sort, verify in the dialogue box that both columns ...

It's hardly a secret. The story has been entered into a writing competition on an open forum ...

File attached. 677 words according to TextMaker, after I removed the title any byline.

648 words according to MS Word.

648 words according the LibreOffice Writer.

Link to the contest's official word ...

I just entered a writing competition for short stories, with a strict limit of 650 words per entry. The site provides a link to a web site that they use as the official word counter for their competitions.

I wrote a short story that was initially over 750 words according to TextMaker. However ...

Thank you.

I have decided to explore using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). The current version is LMDE7, but I have been advised that LMDE6 is better. I guess I'll have to look at both. It's pure Debian, so there should be no problem running the .deb version of SoftMaker Office ... right?

I have a couple of desktop computers, several laptop, and a Microsoft Surface tablet, all running Windows 10. None of these devices qualifies to switch to Windows 11. Unless Microsoft changes their minds again, security updates will end in October of this year.

I have SoftMaker Office Professional ...

Go to the Format > Paragraph dialogue. Scroll down the list of paragraph style until you find "List bullet." Make changes until you get what you want.

Open the "Normal" template, create your custom color(s), then save the template. If you will only need that color in certain docments, you can create a new template for use with the custom color(s).

Pages 163 and 566 of the user manual. (The English version.)

Be sure you have the visual rulers turned on, then inspect where your rulers are showing the margins for the paragraphs in the numbered list. The default should look like this:


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Note that the indentation markers in the horizontal ruler are indented by 0.25". That's the ...