Mariner Write is your Mac OS go-to word processing tool! Professional writer, educator or student, Write has all the functionality you need for that important letter, technical paper or research project. Elegantly efficient and powerful, Mariner Write turns out great looking documents. Create customized headers, footers, endnotes or footnotes. Easily define styles; use keyboard shortcuts for repeated tasks. Use Mail Merge to automate a mailing. Write possesses a powerful Find Dialog, an intuitive Font Panel and much more. Mariner Write empowers you to create your own word processing environment
What's New
Version 3.9.2: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:34,023 |
| Version Downloads:2,292 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:06 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $49.95 |
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Mariner Write is your Mac OS go-to word processing tool! Professional writer, educator or student, Write has all the functionality you need for that important letter, technical paper or research project. Elegantly efficient and powerful, Mariner Write turns out great looking documents. Create customized headers, footers, endnotes or footnotes. Easily define styles; use keyboard shortcuts for repeated tasks. Use Mail Merge to automate a mailing. Write possesses a powerful Find Dialog, an intuitive Font Panel and much more. Mariner Write empowers you to create your own word processing environment so you can produce documents that are clean, consistent and professional.
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- Often "sees" a text doc as needing to be saved right after opening, before editing.
- Sometimes open text file windows vanish; they can be switched to via cmd-~, but they don't actually appear.
- Sometimes the entire title bar and most of the header editing area are pushed above the system menu bar, such that you can't move the window.
- Seems to want to switch many of my .txt docs to a serif font/size that hadn't been selected when I first open them, forcing me to manually switch to a larger sans font.
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Derekcurrie reviewed on 07 Feb 2012
Updates for this release:
• Made cosmetic improvements to the ruler bar
• Set the default to not show ribbon bar, page guides, or ruler
• Fixed Help>Online Support Forum link
• Set check for updates checks at launch for new updates
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Vinkri reviewed on 25 Oct 2011
Sure, it's lightweight... compared to MS Word.
Sure it's like Word... but Word 97 (no inspector, no easy access to functions. Even Word 2007 is better).
Sure it's easy to use, compared to my 1990 Wordperfect on my DOS machine.
Sure it's (sometimes) stable... and funny: when you navigate through the app menu, the app would freeze and show you the MacOS 8.1 little black and white clock.
Sure it has desktop publishing capabilities: you can add images to your document. I swear: you can!
Sure it's a piece of crap. Really, it is.
Yeah, you guessed: I don't like it.
Apple Pages is really Mac like with real desktop publishing functionalities.
Bean is really lightweight and free.
Mellel is really packed with features. And much cheaper.
Mariner Write is an awful, arrogant and overpriced piece of software.
Exactly what a word processor shouldn't be.
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I agree it's overpriced at $50, but what you neglected to mention is that it's frequently on sale, so I suspect very few people pay the full price. Also, the development cycle is slow because the product is quite mature. I've been waiting to get hit with the "4.0" upgrade for years now.
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Have a backup...Thanks for Time Machine.
A good app gone bad.
Sad
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2. I opened the application.
3. I clicked on File
4. I clicked on Recent
5. The was nothing there.
6. I do have a folder called Word Process Files with data.
7. I proceeded to Time Machine and restored Mariner Write.
I hope this is detailed enough to satisfy your helpful and constructive response.
The information you provided was really helpfu.
I assume that it all worked for you.
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The file did not appear in the Open Recent menu under 3.9.0, but it was in the exact place where I saved it (Desktop).
I opened it, and now it appears in the Open Recent menu.
There was no data loss with 3.9.0. As mentioned in the post above mine, it was simply a matter of the file names not appearing in the Open Recent menu.
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Couldn't this be deleted and forgotten?
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The only way to choose the best word processor for your use is to try what's out there. There are good options on the Mac platform besides the huge, feature-intensive office suites (though these are still essential in some situations).
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The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,
Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow, ... for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.)
and Mellel is better than:
- Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.),
- Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.)
- Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow, ... but I exspect the next versions will be much better)
- Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it)
- AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore)
- Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it)
For now I will use Mellel.
The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).
But besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them.
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jrnyoflife reviewed on 06 Apr 2008
The efficiencies of the program don't end there. All of the essential features are quickly accessible and well thought out. I used it to take notes tonight for a non-profit meeting and it worked very well for that.
Things I like about Mariner Write:
Open
- Option to open files from previous session
Fonts
- Hierarchical font menu, and WYSIWYG
Bullet Indent ! (woo hoo!)
Date Format
- Ability to set to many different kinds of formats -- useful.
Ruler
- Paper edge vs. printer edge.
- A full page is readable from a standard MacBook's resolution.
Files
- Can specify the number of backup copies to make. I haven't experimented with this but I think it will be a very handy feature.
File format
- Can specify RTF - Word
Thoughtful touches
- When adding buttons to the toolbar when customizing, there is an Add after and Add before. There is not a move up or move down but that hasn't been too much of a hindrance.
Keyboard shortcut for entering date..
Tables work intuitively
- Can increase a column by dragging from any point in the verticle line
- New rows added automatically when tabbing from last row
- Easy access from the editing window.
Fonts
- Floating font panel that makes it easy to choose fonts, and lets you set up font collections of your favorite fonts.
- Easy font selection at the top of the editing window
- Easy color and highlighting form the editing window
- Choosing from MANY different font styles from the font menu
- Highlighting and font color are at the top of the editing window
Editing
- Remove leading ">", handy for quote in e-mails
Graphics:
- Easy to import
- Text can wrap around a graphic!
- Easy to enlarge graphic proportionally
- Easy to insert graphic into a table cell
Save:
- Save a copy as
Print Envelope
- VERY EASY, DEDICATED FUNCTION FOR THAT
Speak!
- Selection
- All
- Good voice
Insert Rule to separate items is intuitive
Font, Size, and Style all get their own menus which makes it a snap to easily change something.
- Click the font menu then start typing the letters of the font name and you go right to it.
- Click size menu and select size or if you want 18 point just click 1 and 8 then enter
- Click the style menu and select "strike through" or just type s and t, it hightlights then hit enter
To sum it up, it's a word processor that opens fast, that is easy to use, that has all the most used features right there. There may be a rare instance in which I would want to use MS Word over this program but this is my word processor of choice for the vast majority of documents I will be creating.
(and note: I am a power user; in this program the power is the speed, and quick access to the main features usually used)
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