Thread: Textmaker?
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mars is offline mars
2006-03-28 , 18:32
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As a datapoint, June 2005 I asked for a straight linux-arm version of textmaker for the zaurus and got the below response.

On the zaurus, abiword gives me lots of problems with importing big word documents (even with a swap file), while textmaker does a pretty good job.

I would think on the nokia, textmaker would perform better than abiword also if the folks at softmaker thought it would be profitable.

I did purchase the previous version of textmaker for the desktop (windows and linux) -- but didn't find them compelling enough to use.


Hello,

as you are the only customer (so far) needing this version so it is very hard
to maintain another port of the software. In short: Currently we don't want to
have another port which has to be maintained, especially not for a single
person (you pay US$50.00 and we have to spend about US$300.00 a month to
maintain the port ;-) ).

> Hi,
>
> I have already purchased TextMaker for Windows, Linux (i386), and Zaurus
> (Qt/Embedded).
>
> Is it possible for you to offer the Linux version also compiled for the
> Arm
> processor (in addition to the i386 version)? On my Zaurus CL860 I have
> switched
> over to pdaXrom (X-Windows based rom) and would love to be able to use
> TextMaker again
> on it. Maybe just compiling the Linux version for the Arm processor
> would work
> since the CL-XXXX models are 640x480 resolution.
>
> Just asking . . .
>