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Papyrus provides a powerful word-processor for desktop publishing, with PDF-export, integrated spreadsheets, and a relational database using an intuitive user interface for instant searches. You can even use Papyrus from a USB memory stick. This means that you can take your Papyrus (and your data) with you - remove the memory stick, and leave the system 'untouched'.
What's New
Version 12.56: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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| Downloads:8,641 |
| Version Downloads:4,132 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Demo |
| Date:25 Feb 2007 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $99.00 |
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Papyrus provides a powerful word-processor for desktop publishing, with PDF-export, integrated spreadsheets, and a relational database using an intuitive user interface for instant searches. You can even use Papyrus from a USB memory stick. This means that you can take your Papyrus (and your data) with you - remove the memory stick, and leave the system 'untouched'.
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But no development seems to be going on here....
Abandonware?
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BillD reviewed on 19 Sep 2006
[1] It's the first powerful word processor that produces editable output fully compatible with my DEVONthink Pro databases. Not only is the text of those Papyrus documents fully searchable and analyzable, the layout including footnotes, endnotes, images, spreadsheet tables, etc. is viewed in my databases exactly as in Papyrus. And that includes working hyperlinks for URLs, mail addresses and internal 'bookmark' hyperlinks.
From my DEVONthink Pro database I can select such a document, click a button to open it under Papyrus, then edit and save it. The changes are then visible in my database next time I look at the document. And I'm looking at the actual document including images, footnotes, full layout, everything.
I can't do that with Word, Mellel, Pages or any other word processor above the level of TextEdit.
That's because Papyrus 12 for Mac OS X can produce editable PDFs. Fully, absolutely, completely editable PDFs saved with the "pap.pdf" suffix. That's a WOW! feature, and the reason I bought Papyrus 12.
[2] I'm doing a project that results in lots of PDFs. Those files are reviewed by several people who often request changes. In the past, I've had to do the dreaded two-step. I've had to find and open the original document created under another application, edit and save it, then create a PDF version of the changed file. No more. Now I just open the PDF generated by Papyrus, make changes and save the file. That's it. No second step required, no duplication of material on the drive.
Perhaps you won't understand why I appreciate that one-step edit/save process until you are faced with managing dozens of PDFs that have a number of requests for changes.
Summary: For my needs Papyrus 12 is wonderful. For those who need to include powerful spreadsheet table elements within a document (which can read data from other files as well), it's very good. For those who need very large documents, with the capability of generating a linked table of contents, it works well. For those who might need complete compatibility with MS Word documents, it's not that great, but can capture the text of Word documents.
For those who need fully editable PDFs produced by a capable word processor, there's nothing like Papyrus.
The developers note that Papyrus may be able to open "normal" PDFs in the future. As I work with a lot of OCR'd PDFs, I hope that would let me correct OCR errors.
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Nov 2005
And I have to say: I'm impressed by the good job Papyrus does in displaying .doc-files with footnotes! It es really rare that any program other than MS Word can really manage to display them (kind of) correctly: in my test, Papyrus does. Thumbs up!
However, while Papyrus sports a impressive small file-size, I was exspecting no-bloat-ware-speed, i.e. Papyrus being fast. That's not really the case: startup-time is fine, but: scrolling is slow (much slower than in Word, than in Mellel) and not very pleasant to look at: large chunks of white space get slowly refilled with the scrolles text. Not good.
Similar thing when selecting text: there seem to be some issues with the display-engine Papyrus uses.
The look of the toolbars, rulers, etc. is a bit too cross-platform-like, i.e. too Windows-ish or Linux-ish, not Mac-like refined enough. For comparison: check Mellel as a truly OS X-like contemporary piece of software. (But Mellel falls short when coming to displaying .doc-files with footnotes!)
Still, if I could only be sure that Papyrus manages all the .doc-files as good as the ones I have it tested with, then I would consider this program as a leaner substitute (than MS Office) for my .doc-reader-needs.
Anonymous reviewed on 17 Nov 2005
Its also a bit too expensive when comparing to its many competitors, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express, Abiword, Pages, Mariner Write, etc..
Anonymous reviewed on 17 Nov 2005
I'd like to try it out, but I won't install Stuffit Expander in order to do so.
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It's nice to see that this developer has reconsidered and put their file in a standard disc image as described above.
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Anonymous reviewed on 17 Nov 2005
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Cookie08 reviewed on 29 Sep 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 05 Aug 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Aug 2005
How about some screen shots, herr developers?
The info here and the company web page give me, the unfamiliar and uninitiated about this product, absolutely no incentive to even try it out.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Aug 2005
I played with this for a while and I was amazed. Worth a look at!