Quickoffice Premier 7.0 is out!!!

[giorgos_gs]

Quickoffice Premier (public beta) allows Palm OS handheld users direct access to native Microsoft® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint email attachments and native office files saved to removable memory expansion cards.

Quickoffice Premier works on any device using Palm OS 3.5 or later, including all of the Palm Powered smartphones . The total memory footprint of the latest Quickoffice Premier requires less space than the leading competitor's applications lacking native support. Quickoffice Premier has been designed to deliver snappy performance, quickly opening native Office 97 and later format files with high fidelity even on smartphones or organizers using older Dragonball processors.

The benefits of native file support include:

* Enabling access to any Office file on an expansion card. For example, you can back up you¿re My Documents to an SD card put it in your Palm and open any of them
* Seamlessly exchanging files between a Palm, PocketPC, Macintosh, or Windows PC, whether wirelessly or when transferred via removable expansion storage media
* Opening Word, Excel, and PowerPoint email attachments (with Snappermail)
* Creating or editing e-mail attachments in Quickword so that any recipient can open
* Cross compatibility directly with laptops and other (PPC) handhelds
(IR/BT)
* Additionally, the Premier edition of Quickword enables users to view, edit, save, and create files fully compatible with Word 97, 2000, or XP right on the device.
* Included is a trial version of Snappermail to send and recieve native files via email.

Quickoffice Premier supports opening native Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files from all removable media types including Memory Stick used by Sony and MultiMediaCard and Secure Digital formats used in Palm, Kyocera, and other devices. High capacity removable media allows users to keep all of their important files with them, and accessory removable media card readers enable users to quickly backup hundreds of files for handheld access. The native file access provided by Quickoffice Premier antiquates past methods requiring handheld device users to rely upon translation of each individual file on the PC before installing to a handheld device

[cbulock]

Also see this thread for discussion on this topic (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5236)

[Samotracia]

has anybody tried the QO7 on the NX?
I have a few questions...

1- is it still a beta version? (all help files still refer to v6)
2- has anybody been able to reduce the font size as shown in their site?
3- can XL files be displayed on portrait mode?

THANKS a lot

S.

[rhart00]

did you really have to start another thread? there are so many already that they started locking them

[Samotracia]

I didn't start it. It was already there. It was just the first occurence I found on the topic on the NX forum. As you can see, my questions are NX specific.

S

[rhart00]

Originally posted by Samotracia
I didn't start it. It was already there. It was just the first occurence I found on the topic on the NX forum. As you can see, my questions are NX specific.

S

I wasn't referring to you.
1)I am using 7 on the NX. from what I hear it is still in beta.
2)I was able to reduce the font size. I installed the font bucket and the fonts it included. But I wasn't able to change the font to all the sizes it listed in the font bucket for some reason.
3)I assume you meant landscape mode because it displays them naturally in portrait mode. I haven't been able to figure out a way to do it yet. Would be nice if they would implement that.

[mcompeau]

Hello all:

I've read about half a dozen times about folks wishing we had added 'landscape' display mode to Quickoffice Premier.

Here's the scoop: If you want landscape display on your Sony in an app like our suite, you'll need to lobby SONY or PalmSource to get an SDK created to allow it for the 320x480 displays.

There is no good way for us to do this until that time.

Sorry...

[Unregistered]

has anybody been able to put FontBucket and/or fonts on the memory stick? Does it work? I wish I could save some RAM, but I guess they are accessed from other apps, therefore cannot be moved on MS.

[boomer]

You can make it work if you use PiDirectII.  But be carefull - you must move it all back to RAM if you add or delete a font!

[calebsr2k]

:) Thanks Boomer I am still using QO 6.2.3 and was wondering the same thing about FontBucket 1.33. I just got rid of my trusty NR70V for a NX70V and had QWord crash on me. I put FontBucket back into ram and presto chango no problem thus far. I will try your suggestion.
Thank you again.

:cool:

[slinger]

Here's the scoop: If you want landscape display on your Sony in an app like our suite, you'll need to lobby SONY or PalmSource to get an SDK created to allow it for the 320x480 displays.

There is no good way for us to do this until that time.

It's actually quite easy to do this with OS5, but the speed limitations of OS4 would make it impractical....

To do it in OS5 all you would have to do is create an offscreen window of the proper landscape dimension (480w x 320h in this case), and then write a simple blitter that does a 90 degree rotation and dump to the screen. It's not hard really - I wrote a rotating blitter for my app in about an hour. You just do all your palm GDI routines in the offscreen window, and blit whenever the offscreen window has been updated.

Anyway, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong...

-Robert Hildinger

[slgilley]

This might be great, might be something I'd use. But if it offers *native* file support, why do you insist on providing only .exe and Mac formats? I use Linux, and only Linux, and don't have a way to unpack a .exe.

Provide a zip file so I can upload the .prc, okay?

Sean.

[mcompeau]

You can obtain the set of Quickoffice Premier Demo PRCs (enough for a rough trial-- not a full set with spellcheck, fontbucket, etc) via our partnership with snappermail.com. When we are available at full release for the software, we expect to make the ZIP of essential core PRCs available.

You can always get speciallized support like this by emailing our support guru: rossw@cesinc.com and have Mr. Ross Weems get you what you need to purchase, after demoing.

Best,