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Schreiben

The lean word processor for the rest of us!

Most of us don't need Word.
They want something more beautiful and easier-to-use than TextEdit without paying the price for an overloaded program with a mysterious look-and-feel.

Schreiben (German for the act of writing or a letter) focuses especially on this and comes with some elaborate functions. This includes automatic saving and back-ups, customizable header and footer, writing in full-screen-mode, continuous display and image scaling, a live- word-count, the support for system-wide OpenMeta tags and easy-to-include snippets for recurring text-elements.

Self-evident Schreiben supports all kinds of Rich-Text-formatting and all major file-formats. Most important it's super fast, stable and intuitive to use.

Page layout

Word count

Statistics

Continuous display

Image scaling

Auto-save

Date-stamped backups

Selection of text by style

Floating window

Header / Footer

OpenMeta support

Fullscreen

Paragraph highlighting

Styles

Letterbox mode

Selection by style etc.

Format bar

Drag-and-drop easy-to-include snippets

DOC | DOCX | ODT | RTF | RTFD | XML | SCHREIBEN

Version 5.6:

[new] .myapps file licensing
[new] autosave when accidentally crashing
[improved] integrated feedback
[fixed] Word (with images) export bug
[fixed] some bugs

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APFELZ This app is not designed to be a replacement for Word. It can't and it will never be :-)

For me a company that places the content of a letter/document inside a table is rather in trouble - but thats just my point of view :-))
(Version 4.7)

APFELZ Well, I will never be able to meet the demands of every single person so I am happy with all the others that do understand my attitude (to demos, serial numbers and what a lean word processor should be able to do and what not) and share it :-)
(Version 3.2)

APFELZ so - I've changed the peeving demo reminder from extremely peeving to decent peeving :-)
(Version 4.4)

APFELZ Schreiben is the German word for "Writing"

btw: Schreiben also offers the possibility to hide everything - incl. the childish sidebar :-)
(Version 3.2)

RPPHOTO I like the icons. A really fresh and different app, me thinks. I use the snippets palette to collect random thoughts and keep them organized for later use.
(Version 3.3)

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Feb 18 2009

APFELZ thanks :-)
(Version 4.5)

DMU how come almost every type of app out there has realized the pure awesomeness of tabs except word processors? browsers, utilities, even photoshop opens multiple documents in tabs now. every time i see one of these fast "one window" independent word processor apps pop up here i rush in hoping to finally have a word processor that doesn't litter my screen with a bajillion windows. nope. schreiben is more of the same ol' same ol'. there's not a lot to differentiate word processors from each other, so please... someone give us the one thing that would separate your app from the others -- the pure awesomeness of tabs.
(Version 5.6)

MYSTERY TRAMP This is a pretty good word processor, certainly not a Pages or a Word, but a step up in many respects to TextEdit. Lots of useful features, like a live word count, access to Spotlight comments, a "snippets" drawer for commonly used data. You can save files as PDFs (which is a great step up from "printing" them as PDFs I wish all Mac apps would do this. AppleScriptable.

It has a great interface (I love just about all the MOApps) although the icons on the format bar are a bit small to easily tell what they do. It doesn't appear to accept graphics, which is a bit of a bummer. Otherwise, though, a nice program.
(Version 5.3)

Replies:

Oct 4 2009

APFELZ Thanks for your feedback :-)

You can easily drag images directly onto the textview or add them by menu (Insert Image) - you can adjust the size if needed but of course you don't have the adjustmenst you know from Pages or Word :-)
(Version 5.3)

Oct 4 2009

MYSTERY TRAMP When I drag graphics into the text view, I get the path of the graphic, not the graphic itself. Am I doing something wrong?

mt
(Version 5.3)

Oct 7 2009

APFELZ this does not work for every app - but when dragged from Finder it will (of course this does not work with every file format (.txt can't handle images - but .rtfd will)
(Version 5.3)

Oct 21 2009

RUBAIYAT You say you can adjust the image size. How? There seems to be no tool, item in the menus, inspector or toolbar to do this.

The manual really needs a rewrite to actually include the obvious, it says very little of any use. As does the Help.
(Version 5.4)

Oct 23 2009

APFELZ Well - of course the manual points that out :-)

Just double click on image.
(Version 5.4)

Oct 23 2009

RUBAIYAT Thanks for the tip, I tried it, but it is not at all Mac like to do it this way.

Also I have just been through the manual 3 times again, beyond the multiple times I tried before and I can still see no reference how to handle graphics, let alone resize them.

Just a few points about manual writing.

1. Break up the subject matter into logical units

2. Detail the interface as it appears on screen and in the menus.

3. Make sure your headings don't get orphaned from their subject matter on the next page.

4. Supply an index.

5. Use a designer/writer if you can afford one. One who can see it with fresh eyes.

6. Lastly don't use your software if it is not up to it.
(Version 5.4)

Oct 23 2009

APFELZ Drag and drop and directly click the object is not Mac-like?

And you would pay the (heavy) difference if I get other people on board to do something that only is needed by one or two out of thousands not having any problems?

Of course the app itself and and also the manual could be better, thats all a process - the first version even had no manual and this one really is much better than in earlier versions

And the next version the app is better and the manual etc.

But even the best manual could not prevent that sometimes people don't look and don't try before they write comments about thinks supposed not to work or present, even if they all are there and working as expected :-)

(BTW - the manual even has an own chapter about resizing images with own screenshot about that)
(Version 5.4)

Oct 23 2009

RUBAIYAT You are making me wonder if there is ANOTHER manual that I am not aware of.

I had no intention of making this confrontational, in fact bar this and the lack of columns there is a lot to like in Schreiben.

If you like I can help with the better manual, no charge, I am curious to see how it all hangs together.

As to the graphics resizing.

Standard Mac interface would have you click once on the graphic, which would then show a box with handles on the corners which you then drag to the size you want, interactively. Your implementation with inline scroll bars and a slider that needs to update, is really odd and clumsy.

May I suggest you listen to the Late Night Cocoa podcast "Margins, Metrics & Mac Look and Feel with Uli Kusterer". Programmers often aren't as multi-skilled as they think, and user interface design is an art as well as a science.
(Version 5.4)

LEV Read the developer's opening remark. He's succeeded. Schreiben feels-- completely intangible and I can't explain it -- better than the excellent Bean, and at only $9 more, it's money well spent. Have a look at his website; the guy's imaginative and good. (And it's nice to have apps with European names, but that's just my EuroChauvinism...)
(Version 4.9.1)

APFELZ As desriped (and due to my offer to work without licenses, serials and activations and all the other sort of nonsense that only punishes the honest among us) it will handle .docx and .odt files like any other Apple application like TextEdit, Pages or any other app that uses the integrated OS X file conversion service - and there is also my offer to give the money back if you cant open a file with Schreiben the way you could open it with TextEdit etc

So - I hope two seconds of reading are not a waste of time for all the others who will give Schreiben a try :-)
(Version 3.1.1)

TOMEG Very nice app, really. Unfortunately, I already use Bean, which is also a very nice app. But, if I were to be in the market for a capable attractive and very well supported (by developer) text editor/simpler word processor, I might choose this one. Excellent value. Congratulations to the developer. (p.s. I have not been paid for my review, nor do I have any connection with the developer of Schreiben, so feel free).
(Version 5.5)