Mellel Word Processor - Universal Binary

The developers at RedleX have sent out word that Mellel word processor will soon be a Universal Binary.

As always you can check the list at guide.apple.com/universal for a full listing of Universal Binaries - as of today, the list is over 1100 applications. Of course iWork ‘06 from Apple is already a Universal Binary, and Nisus Writer Express is as well.

Rumors are (and they are probably fairly accurate) that Apple will have Intel machines across their full desktop and notebook lineup by August of 2006.

iWork ‘06

iWork ‘06 was released with some major enhancements to Pages (Apple’s word processor/publishing application) and Keynote (Apple’s presentation application). Although a spreadsheet application was not added, spreadsheet functionality was increased. Among the changes:
* Ability to create more sophisticated/compex documents and presentations, including spreadsheet-like tables
* 3D Charts
* Image editing (similar to iPhoto)
* Masking tools added
* New ways to view the documents as you create them, as well as the ability to control the viewing angle for presentations
* Improved Mac OS X Address Book compatability
* Dozens of new themes

iWork ‘06 is available now for $79 through the Apple Store.

Mellel 2.0.1

In an update to Mellel 2.0, a Mac OS X word processor ( read about it here), Mellel 2.0.1 addresses a problem with running on older versions of Mac OS X - Mellel 2.0.1 will run on Mac OS X 10.2.

Mellel 2.0 and Mellel Spotlight Plugin

Mellel 2.0, the word processor from RedleX, has been released. Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing. A lot of genealogists use it because of the above advertised features -if you’re writing formal genealogy documents/books, the formatting, footnote/endnote, citation, and layout features are a big plus. Version 2.0 is a major update, and requires Mac OS X 10.2.

The Mellel Spotlight Plugin is just that - a plugin for Mac OS X 10.4’s Spotlight, that makes Mellel documents searchable.

Languages/Localisations: Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. Several more are set to be released soon.

Some of the new features and updates include: Enhanced RTF support (images/graphics), extensive support for columns and sections, speed improvements, Table improvements, and many others (see http://www.mellel.com/releasenotes.html for full list).

What’s New:
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Spotlight for WordPerfect 1.0.2

For those of you who have a lot of WordPerfect files, version 1.0.2 of the WordPerfect Spotlight Plugin has been released. This is a Universal Binary that allows Spotlight to index and search WordPerfect files (starting with WP 2.1).

It allows Spotlight to index the following information:
* the text of the WordPrefect document
* the version of the WordPerfect document format (2.1 to 4.0)
* the security method (either “None” or “Password Encrypted”)
* the fonts used in the text (search for “Courier”)
* the languages used in the text (search “en” for English, “de” for German)
* the page height and width in points (search for width > 600 to find US Letter but not A4)
* the number of pages (estimated at 1800 characters per page)

Changes in version 1.0.2
* the version of the WordPerfect document format (2.1 to 4.0)
* the security method (either “None” or “Password Encrypted”)
* the fonts used in the text (search for “Courier”)
* the languages used in the text (search “en” for English, “de” for German)
* the page height and width in points (search for width > 600 to find US Letter but not A4)
* the number of pages (estimated at 1800 characters per page)

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