BillW50 wrote:
I often don't get very excited about the daily offering on
Giveawayoftheday.com. And today was just another word processor which I
tried dozens of them in the past and almost none of them impress me at
all. But I must say just using this Atlantis Word Processor for a few
hours has really impressed me. If you are frustrated over non MS Word
word processors like me, this one is definitely worth a look. And it can
be portable too. ;-)
Do it come with GOTD's wrapper that you can use the start & abort
install trick to get rid of it so it no longer exists for the real
installer? That gets rid of it phoning home to GOTD to check if you are
installing within the giveaway day.
The trick, as I recall, is you start GOTD's fake installer, let it
extract the real installer into the %temp% directory, grab a copy of the
real installer to store elsewhere, abort GOTD's fake installer, and
thereafter you have the real installer to run on any day you want.
Their online manual mentions their editor creates RTF files. Since they
mention Microsoft in that description, it looks like they support
Microsoft's TNEF format (which Microsoft incorrectly labelled "RTF"
despite HTML is also an RTF format). Can you load and save other the
other file formats and make one of them the default one?
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com...ed_formats.htm
The GOTD download is only 2.4MB in size. This isn't a web-only
installer is it? That is, you don't get the real installer but instead
a web installer that has to retrieve the real installer and then runs
the real installer. The Kinsoft Office download is 46MB and Softmaker
FreeOffice is 60MB. Although this Atlantis download is only the word
processor (i.e., you don't get the other components of a suite, like
spreadsheet and presentation), 2.4MB seems too small for both the word
processor component along with an installer wrapped around it. When
searching in the setup.exe in the downloaded .zip file, I did see the
string "Welcome to the Atlantis Word Processor Setup" but I couldn't
tell if I was looking at a string in GOTD's wrapper or for a real
installer (and, if so, if it was a web-only installer and not the real
or full installer). Then I found "This "Giveaway-of-the-day" offer has
expired." inside the setup.exe file so, yep, this is the GOTD wrapper
but is it a web-only wrapper or does it contain the full Atlantis
product?
If their word processor is really this tiny for its installer (and not a
web-only installer), maybe because it lacks some important
functionality. Read:
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/faq.htm
No table or frames support. Really, no table support? If you open a
doc someone else created using Word, table formatting is lost. Geesh,
have fun using monospace fonts and the tab key to emulate tables.
Reviewers noted lack of imaging support (pictures) but those were 2-year
old reviews. Since their online help describes how to add pictures,
maybe they got around to adding it in the last couple of years (a bit
late for a product that started back in 2003 as Atlantis Ocean Mind).
There is no PDF support but instead they have you install a PDF printer
and use that. No version control or change tracking like in MS Word,
Kingsoft, and Open/LibreOffice. So what else does it lack when compared
to the word processors available in the free Kingsoft, Softmaker, and
Open/LibreOffice suites? They claim to be an MS Word alternative, and
they charge for it, but it is a weak alternative. No point to pay when
you can get other better alternatives and for free (and all the time).
I guess if you like this word processor (and only want a word processor)
but miss out on the GOTD offer, you could buy it for only $10 with a 70%
discount offer at softpedia.com.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-...rocessor.shtml
As of version 1.6.5.8, this product dropped support for Windows 9x and
Windows NT4. It's been awhile since I've seen anyone using NT4 but I
still see plenty of users of Windows 9x.