![]() ![]() Neither pricing nor release date has been determined, although Nisus Software is aiming to release in “Spring 2007,” which probably means “before July.” The Nisus Writer Pro public beta requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, with 10.4 or later required for full right-to-left text support it’s a 40 MB download. Similarly, another area Nisus Writer Pro could stand out would be in generating truly good PDFs, complete with tables of contents, PDF bookmarks, hot-linked references, and more. I’d also like to see Nisus Writer Pro support common markup languages and be able to act as a front-end to blogs and other Web publishing systems – it’s essential that a modern word processor be able to “print to the Web” as wellĪs it can lay words on paper. However, conversations I’ve had with the company over the last few years lead me to believe that they’re open to adding features that will set Nisus Writer Pro apart from other current word processors, such as built-in collaborative editing capabilities. With the first release of Nisus Writer Pro, Nisus Software is focusing on bringing back the much-missed functionality of the classic Nisus Writer, which means that most of these features are aimed at increasing the core word processing power of the application. Writer Pro for Mac OS X, the application that’s supposed to replace the original Nisus Writer.įeatures new to Nisus Writer Pro from the Express version upon which it’s based include style-based table of contents generation indexing bookmarks to locations within the document cross references to bookmarks, footnotes, and list items attribute-sensitive search and replace floating images with text wrapped around them customized line numbering widow and orphan control enhancements to the Nisus Macro Language and greater flexibility in footnote and endnote styling, along with footnotes that can span multiple pages. ![]() Nisus had of course released Nisus Writer Express some years before, but it was a pale shadow of the original Nisus Writer, and all that makes me even happier to hear that they’ve now released a public beta of Nisus But the program never made the leap to Mac OS X, and when we moved to our new issue-generation approach last year (see “ Behind the TidBITS Curtain,” ), I no longer needed to run Nisus Writer in Classic mode. In fact, producing TidBITS each week relied on a collection of Nisus Writer macros I’d written. I used to be a huge fan of Nisus Software’s Nisus Writer in the classic Mac OS days. #1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffs.#1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs. ![]()
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