![]() ![]() So when I heard about Mariner Write 3.6, I decided to give it a shot. In addition to its own proprietary format, Write lets you save documents as standard RTF, MS Word RTF, text, or PDF. The ability to save as PDF is nice: any OS X program can do it, of course, via the Print dialog. NISUS WRITER EXPRESS WILL NOT LET ME SAVE FILES PDFīut saving a document as PDF through the Save dialog is more straightforward and intuitive. It’s this sort of attention to detail that makes Write feel easy to use.Īt first, it seemed like Write didn’t save any formatting I applied to my documents. Finally, I realized the problem: I’d open a text document, add some formatting, hit Save, and open the document later to find the formatting gone. My own stupid mistake, granted, but if the filename doesn’t have an extension, it’s an easy error to make. So, I’d have appreciated a warning from Write before closing the document. Many of us work in a Microsoft-dominated world. That means we need to be able to read files created by Word. Well, Mariner Write can accomplish that for the most part-sort of. Several documents I tried showed up just fine in Mariner Write, but one was kind of a mess: only text on the first page was visible, but Write showed a second, apparently blank page. Select All selected (invisible) text on the second page, and I was able to copy and paste into a new Write document, where all the text showed, but certain formatting elements, including item numbering, were absent. So unfortunately, if you need to be able to reliably read any but the simplest of Word documents, you’ll probably need to keep a copy of Word on your Mac. Write is not without its flaws, even though they’re mostly pretty minor. Say you want the page number in the footer on every page. But now you want a header that appears just on the first page. Suddenly, the first page’s page number footer has disappeared. The problem is, there’s only one “different first page” option in the header/footer dialog box, and it applies to both the header and the footer. It’s easy enough to get around this by duplicating your footer separately for the first page, but then if you want to change it you have to change it in two places, etc. You can specify a background color for your documents if you want to see how something will look on colored paper, or if, like me, you find light gray easier on your eyes than bright white. Unfortunately, the default is to print this background color. Considering that most printers can’t do edge printing, I can’t imagine ever wanting that behavior. The option to turn off background color printing is uncharacteristically hard to find-it’s in the Mariner Write section of the Print dialog box. ![]() Mariner Write’s rectangular selection (it calls this “discontiguous”) is buggy. Hold down the Command key and you can select, say, one column of tab-delimited text. NISUS WRITER EXPRESS WILL NOT LET ME SAVE FILES FULL.NISUS WRITER EXPRESS WILL NOT LET ME SAVE FILES PDF.NISUS WRITER EXPRESS WILL NOT LET ME SAVE FILES MAC OS.NISUS WRITER EXPRESS WILL NOT LET ME SAVE FILES MAC OS X. ![]()
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