#Nisus writer pro for windows manuals#
#Nisus writer pro for windows manual#
#Nisus writer pro for windows portable#

#Nisus writer pro for windows portable#

This didn't always prove to be the best choice as Graphics created in word are not often portable to other formats. Many times, I even created the graphics with the drawing tools in Word. (probably didn't want to ) But from the start, I always strove for simplicity in tools and never used two or three when one would do.

#Nisus writer pro for windows manuals#

Over the years, I have written manuals by hand and had editorial assistants enter them in rudimentary text programs, then in things like Paperclip (really old word processor) Word Perfect, every variety of MS Word, MacWrite, and some I can't remember. So why not just do the entire thing in the program that does it all? What I don't understand is, if Mellel is so good, why the final layout with figures has to be done in Pages? Everything else is going to be just text and possibly tables.

I'll attach my Windows-Free logo for the amusement of all. I can't expect everyone to do that though, so I have to maintain some compatibility. What I am trying to avoid is using MS Office as I really would like to have a Microsoft-free zone here. I'm just hoping iWork Pages will be the answer I need. Just so you all know where I am coming from, I write technical and instruction manuals, so accurate placement of illustrations and picture graphics is very important. Even if they incorporated it as a standard feature of OO, and I think they will, it stil won't address the problem with the graphics as I have detailed above. But I will in the near future as I have access to an older H-P with MS Office 2000 on it.Īngelwatt, I know what you are saying, but the system is pretty complicated and really isn't worth it to me in light of my real problem with the graphics. I cannot state that iWork Pages is going to be better as I haven't tried that yet. But, in today's environment, that really isn't practical. I will have to say that, as long as I stay with OO or NeoOffice, they are fine. My friend sent it back to me and when I opened it with OO, they were out again, even though my friend had not tried to correct anything. Then I sent the document to a friend who opened it with Word. In some ways, OO seems to have better controls for positioning objects and pictures than does Word, so it really wasn't difficult to get them back where I wanted them. When I opened it with OO, they had moved. I creaed a document in Word and carefully positioned pictures and artwork to be next to the relevant text. IN fact, I have OO 3.0 and it still has difficulty in keeping graphics in place when going to Word and back. Thanks to all for your suggestions and I'm still open to ideas, if anyone knows something else.Įric S, Thanks for the reply. I also tried Nisus Writer pro and it was even worse in the graphics department, so that's out of the running. So being able to do some things with Find and Replace is a big help.

I have a lot of ebooks, (over 700) and I've found that, unless graphics are involved. O think both Open- and Neo-office can sirt of do these with some involved work-arounds, but that's not the same as having it native to the app. Or sometimes, I want to replace paragraph marks with space after with two paragraph breaks with no space, as those work better when converting to. txt or other files, I want to replace multiple line breaks with just one or two.

#Nisus writer pro for windows manual#

They also have some shortcomings in Find and Replace.įor example, neither can do manual hard or soft line breaks. OpenOffice and its clone, NeoOffice cannot really keep graphics stable going back and forth to Word.