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Not only was he willing he was extremely friendly. :) I cannot disclose the price agreed upon however I think it's a fair deal.

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Chuckles ... Tape drive. :)

@terminills

This is awesome! Sign me up for a MorphOS copy!

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That is indeed quite good news. Office software is what's missing most. Although I only used Wordworth and AmigaWriter in the past on Amiga (and Beckertext in the real early years) I am glad FW is saved for future now. Good move.

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Development has officially started on Final Writer. :)

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What are the aims of your work that has just officially started on Final Writer? To just port it to AROS, or are you aiming at an AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS release as well, so you can sell more copies and recoup your purchase price, plus maybe a little extra to pay for the new development work? Or, are you thinking of improving the functionality of Final Writer during the process of porting it to AROS, AmigaOS4.x, and MorphOS?

If the aim is to add new features during the porting process, will you also release a new and improved AmigaOS3.x version of Final Writer, with any improvements back ported to the original Final Writer code? Although Final Data was very basic and not as useful as a full featured database program, are you planning on porting it as well, or replacing it with a better database application, to create a more full featured office suite?

Will the work on Final Writer include any work to improve printing capabilities, or will you depend on the existing printing support that is built-in with the target operating system of each release?

Lots of questions, just wondering what you have planned for the future and if you have considered any of these questions in your planning?

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More info than just a tease is needed Most important would be the ability to communicate with the outside world standards.

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That is where competing projects seem to have an edge.
That and a more modern look and feel.

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It is going cross platform ie a native version for each platform. New features are planned but it will take time to get them implemented.

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I do hope to eventually have a full blown native office suite

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Printing is up to the OS. That being said Final Writer never supported 24 bit printing and that will change now.

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I have considered many things and would love to say the next release will include feature xyz. However I plan on being realistic and will work on making sure each version will have each feature that is implemented being implemented correctly.

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Obviously importing/exporting ODF is very important and will be supported eventually but I make no promises as to when it will be supported. :)



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Thanks for the info.

I hope that native versions will be released, before you try to solve all the problems, or add a ton of additional features, as it is reasonable to expect new features to take much longer than just porting the existing source code to PPC for MorphOS and AmigaOS4.x, and multiple platforms for AROS. It would be nice to have a working, but possibly limited, version for MorphOS, AmigaOS4.x, and AROS, while you continue down the long road toward providing new features and adding other office suite applications.

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Have you tried Cinamon Writer. It already has support for docX but the formatting is out on the current public release.
Back at the end of March Desler was asking for testers with a good working knowledge of Word in order to help improve compatibily.

http://bb3.amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=40066&forum=32&16

http://desler.be/modules/wfchannel/

What is going on with this thread?
When I try to access it from the home page, I gets a notice that it doesn't exist an I get dropped back to the forums page where I can access it.
WTF?

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It seems the Morphzone page shows 5 pages but we are at page 4 now, so clicking at page
5 is not possible.

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Interesting bug.
Makes you wonder what caused the page count to be off.

So, if I am counting right, we have four word processors in active development.

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I just figured we needed enough posts to make it to 5 pages. :)

Hope this will end in a usable program.
I use googledocs to open docx but this is slow.
I would surely prefer a native solution and would be willing to pay a reasanoble amount for it.
After all it's a hobby and that's ok for have to pay some extra.

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:)

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w131/Kalamatee/fw2015-002_zpsodazyfia.jpg

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Cool!!!!
Nice work man! It looks really promising....

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Getting closer. :)

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w131/Kalamatee/FinalWriter2015-006_zps1e4ycd2e.jpg

Nice piece of news and nice to see Final Writer walking to its goal.
This is a real good work, man!

Heeeey! This looks great! Only hope it' not very expensive. Thanks for the update.

Looks great - Any idea when it is ready for release ?

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I'm planning on keeping it reasonable. :)

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Not yet but we're much closer to me feeling comfortable setting a firm deadline. :)