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Is there a tabulation of the fonts available in the Megafont collection showing what "big name" commercial fonts each most closely corresponds with? Do you mean a font that is metric-compatible, or just a font that looks similar? Preferably look-alikes that are metrics-compatible but, con...

As a follow-up, here's what the PDF/A notification looks like in Adobe Reader 11: PDF-A_Screen_Shot.jpg I consider this to be better than in Bluebeam and Foxit, in both of which you have to click through some menu choices to see whether or not the file has PDF/A (or digital signature) status. This i...

Another feature I have found lacking in FlexiPDF Pro 2022, and I'd like to know if it is offered in FlexiPDF 2025: I frequently work with PDF files that are supposed to be in the PDF/A (restricted) type. When I open such files in Abode Acrobat or Adobe reader, Adobe displays a colored bar across the...

None of them can pull in TextMaker's default/internal format . . . or at least none I've encountered. TextMaker needs to steal a page from WordPerfect for its internal file format. Needs to allow font embedding so you get the exact same font no matter what system opened the file. I used that a lot ...

TextMaker can make a huge leap if they expand their proprietary file format to: allow embedding of fonts create multiple document sections The paid version of TextMaker does both. In the FreeOffice version, font embedding is possible when exporting to PDF but not in the TextMaker file itself. Both ...

Video.06-19-2025.07.52.30.mp4 Getting deeper into setting up the document I was working on. I found that the bookmark page associations were often incorrect and zoom levels were often inconsistent. Adobe Acrobat allowed me to right-click each bookmark to access and edit the properties, including th...

It was how we were taught in both high school and grade school. 13th edition of CMOS wasn't published until after that for me. That's the kind of thing a simple-ish checker could fix though. The reference to CMOS 13.37 is to the section of the CMOS, not the edition. I'm 81 years old. I graduated fr...

Sorry - double post

I use SoftMaker Office primarily (almost exclusively) on a Windows desktop computer, and secondarily on a Windows laptop computer. However, I also have it installed (the free version) on a couple of Samsung Android tablets. I have an e-friend in another country who is a fellow author. She writes exc...

When I started writing books this was mandatory. He said "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah." "And another thing blah blah blah blah blah." Assuming this is all the same speaker, this was never correct (in American English). Each new paragraph should begin w...

How is this a TextMaker problem?

For basic editing of novels and similar books, Strunk & White's The Elements of Style would suffice as the only editorial guide needed. For reasons lost in the mists of time, I have three copies of it on my desktop reference shelf -- all 3rd edition.

LibreOffice is a train wreck that got hit by a plane crash and is rolling downhill towards a daycare center at noon play. I wouldn't have worded it quite that strongly ... but I can't disagree. In many ways, it's proof of the adage that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. Chicago i...

So, if Softmaker wants to really boost the professional image of TextMaker, it needs to spin up some venue where editors willing to use TextMaker who are well versed in the bible (Chicago Manual of Style) can ply their trade to professional writers using TextMaker. If so, they would aso have to acc...

Wow!

I used Excel for 20+ years before discovering SoftMaker Office, and I had never heard of this. I guess if Excel offers it, PlanMaker has to support it but (like so much from Microsoft) it seems rather idiotic.