SoftMaker

The SoftMaker Software GmbH is a company based in Nuremberg medium-sized company developing software for the office supplies and computer fonts and sells. The company was founded in 1987 and has been operating since 1989 as a GmbH. Founder and CEO Martin Kotulla. According to the company are currently 17 employees and another 20 employees on a freelance basis.

SoftMaker Office

Main product is the office application suite SoftMaker Office, which currently available for Windows, Linux and Android in version " SoftMaker Office 2012 " and for Windows Mobile, Windows CE, version " SoftMaker Office 2010 " is present.

The office suite consists of the following programs:

  • TextMaker ( Word Processing )
  • PlanMaker ( spreadsheet )
  • Presentations (presentation program) and
  • BasicMaker ( BASIC macro language, only in the Windows version ).

Since the 2012 version there is SoftMaker Office in a standard and a professional version. In addition, the Professional version contains the PIM application eM Client Professional, Duden Corrector and Duden and Langenscheidt dictionaries ( for the German market ) or Berlitz dictionaries ( for the international market ).

SoftMaker Office for Windows can be run from a USB flash drive on any PC without prejudice to their operating system to make it mobile to use ( for example, in the office and at home ). The plan is to expand the Office package to the database program DataMaker which exists at present only as a single program in the older version DataMaker 99 for Windows.

Available as a free download on the one hand TextMaker Viewer, a program for viewing and printing documents in the file formats Microsoft Word (. Doc), Office Open XML (. Docx), Open Document Text (. Odt ), OpenOffice.org and StarOffice (. sxw ), Pocket Word ( .psw / .pwd ), TextMaker (. tmd ), Rich Text Format (. rTF ) and HTML, as well as to other free office, an office suite that is available for free and can be used indefinitely.

Other products

SoftMaker sells some more, not self-developed programs. For students, teachers, students, schools and universities SoftMaker offers selected products at favorable.

In the field of computer fonts SoftMaker offers two extensive font collections: MegaFont XXL with more than 12,000 TrueType fonts is aimed primarily at home users, infiniType 10,000 fonts in PostScript and TrueType format to the professional user. Further petitions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are aimed at customers with special interests.

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