Papyrus Review in new Mac Addict
  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Tronman
    Posts: 209 from 2003/3/3
    From: Preston, Wa
    Just got the new (July 2006) Mac Addict and there, contained in an
    article reviewing 13 affordable Microsoft Word alternatives, is a very
    positive review of Papyrus, on page 29. They rated it the Best
    Non-M$ Word processing program you can get for your Mac. :-D They
    even mention its tiny 3.1MB executable size, praising its efficient
    coding! Take that M$ Word! (word is like what, 600MB or more?!)

    Anyhow, this is a great bit of advertising for a piece of software you
    can get for MorphOS. So this means that.. MorphOS has a word
    processor that is very much able to take on Word in the real world :-)

    Exsept that, as far as I can tell, development has ceased on the MOS
    version, is this true? I've heard a few people kvetching about the
    buggy version they paid for, was it ever completed/bug fixed?

    When it is, I will buy it for sure on my MorphOS box.
  • »08.06.06 - 00:23
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  • rms
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    rms
    Posts: 599 from 2004/11/27
    @ Tronman

    Hopefully development wasn't stopped, as the buggy version we bought isn't really usable :(((

    AFAIK Papyrus would be the only "integrated software" (word processor, spread sheet and db) we would have for MorphOS and such is very much needed.

    Regards

    Christoph
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Posts: 108 from 2005/4/3
    From: Netherlands
    Hi,

    Papyrus works OK but slow, because it's a kind of emulation.
    I've converted a text with image to HTML format, also imported
    a word document ! RTF documents goes well too. It has a huge
    configuration window. I've not tried printing with. But all by all,
    i'am happy with Papyrus.

    Grts, Amigaharry, homepage of SimpleView, machinecoded viewer:
    http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/ex
  • »09.06.06 - 21:11
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