First impressions
Posted: 2003-04-25 17:34:07
Favourable at the least.
I received a message that the beta was available through Composer site, but there was something wrong; the .sit file eventually gave the download as 9.7 MB of 3.8 MB which is about the size of the unstuffed application. The .gz file did not download. Then going to the message from Nisus, the .gz download was good considering the time at which I downloaded.
Installation simple from the .dmg file. No indication where to install. Since this is OS X, I suggest that the ReadMe file should give instructions about where to place files. For example, and I hope I get these correct (:
Install the application Nisus Writer Express in *Mac HD/Users/YourHome/Applications* which is *~/Applications/*
Create a folder Nisus Writer in ~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer for additional support files.
For Macro storage create a folder ~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Macros.
And so on.
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Selecting NWEx as the Application to read Nisus Email documents works correctly. I've not yet tried Replying. Whether to switch to Apple Mail.app with the advantages of using the AddressBook must be a consideration at this stage, but NEX is very simple to use despite a few bugs. Being able to access Safari directly from NWEx is great; NE did not allow this.
Being able to use only one letter with Command + Shift/Option/Control for shortcuts needs work.
Not having visible Paragraph Rulers is disappointing. This feature of all Nisus Writers in the past was what set NW apart from all other word/text processors.
Graphics layers. Will they come?
A good start but, frankly, I cannot see much new stuff from the last Okito Composer.
rgds.
I received a message that the beta was available through Composer site, but there was something wrong; the .sit file eventually gave the download as 9.7 MB of 3.8 MB which is about the size of the unstuffed application. The .gz file did not download. Then going to the message from Nisus, the .gz download was good considering the time at which I downloaded.
Installation simple from the .dmg file. No indication where to install. Since this is OS X, I suggest that the ReadMe file should give instructions about where to place files. For example, and I hope I get these correct (:
Install the application Nisus Writer Express in *Mac HD/Users/YourHome/Applications* which is *~/Applications/*
Create a folder Nisus Writer in ~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer for additional support files.
For Macro storage create a folder ~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Macros.
And so on.
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Selecting NWEx as the Application to read Nisus Email documents works correctly. I've not yet tried Replying. Whether to switch to Apple Mail.app with the advantages of using the AddressBook must be a consideration at this stage, but NEX is very simple to use despite a few bugs. Being able to access Safari directly from NWEx is great; NE did not allow this.
Being able to use only one letter with Command + Shift/Option/Control for shortcuts needs work.
Not having visible Paragraph Rulers is disappointing. This feature of all Nisus Writers in the past was what set NW apart from all other word/text processors.
Graphics layers. Will they come?
A good start but, frankly, I cannot see much new stuff from the last Okito Composer.
rgds.