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| | Features | Multilingual Word Processor Supporting the Following Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Farsi (Persian), French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, TamilDesigned to be an extremely flexible & simple writing tool Nisus Writer has always been packed with useful features.You can save files as HTML, or share your work with others with our RTF translator.Nisus Writer also offers unparalleled find & replace, unlimited undos, customizable keyboard menu equivalents, graphics creation, and an especially powerful macro language.Nisus Writer has always been the writing tool of choice for students, educators, & authors.
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Best word processor for Mac Jul 26, 2009
By David Deacon
I first picked up Nisus v. 5 when there was a special promotion for it. I always found the market-leading software cumbersome and ill-suited to academic needs. For drafting text, quick editing, and searching large documents there is none better than Nisus. If you still have a system running OS 9.x the classic version is excellent. Version 6.5 is still one of the most word processors ever produced--as much a classic as a classic car, a Parker fountain pen, or an Underwood typewriter. On OSX I run Nisus Writer Pro, and absolutely depend on it. A few months ago I reported a bug and had an email conversation, which by its conclusion made me feel as if I had helped programmers zero in on a problem. The next upgrade had addressed the problem. If you want to draft expository prose in an efficient way, this is by far the best of the bunch.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Nisus Writer Pro is Fabulous (former MS Word user) Dec 31, 2010
By Danaher M. Dempsey Jr.
I run Mac OS 10.5 and NWP is perfect. I own MS Word and iWork's Pages and used each for a while. Then I bought NWP for my son. Now I have NWP with (separately purchased) Grammarian X for grammar checking. This makes an unbelievable duo, redefining the word "slick".
NWP has everything in exactly the right place. It handles tables brought in from Excel perfectly and allows you to delete rows, add rows, etc.
It handles line spacing by 0.1 thus between single spaced (1.0) and double spaced (2.0) you get 9 more (1.1. 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, etc.). This line spacing can be done almost instantly; its the same for font size. The controls are in just the right place.
WARNING this is a word processor, it has no drawing package, none of the frilly crap. NWP starts up instantly compared to Word.
It is so much nicer and easier to use than Word. It has filters that it uses to export to a word file if you need that. With both easy access to .rtf and .pdf, I find no reason for .doc most of the time.
--- According to Grammarian X, the above is written with a reading level suitable for a 10 year old. My ten-year old Granddaughter would buy this. If you can read this review, then buy NWP and Grammarian X
Cheers,
Dan
The last WORD - the new NISUS 2 Wiins Nov 05, 2011
By LD
I want to tell you up-front - I have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft Word. Around 25 years ago I purchased Word when it was small enough to fit on one or two floppy disks (for those of you too young to remember - back then the floppy disk only contained 800K of storage space). I used Word for letter writing and small documents. It did the job perfectly and I was happy.
But things started turning south when I upgraded first to the 2001 and finally to the 2008 version which had bloated into 606 MB. Word wouldn't auto check my spelling (e.g. underline the misspelled words) of the 200+ page manual I was working on. I was forced to manually initiate the spellchecker to find the misspelled words. If I placed an image too close to the top or bottom margin - the image would snap to the extreme top or bottom edge of the page. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to stay at the top or bottom margin edges. I finally had to place it several inches from the page edge to get it to stay (somewhat) close to the desired paragraph it was for - not good! Finally things got so bad that all I had to do was nudge an image and I would immediately be taken to a page some 50 pages away. And if I forgot what page I was originally on, I would have to hunt and search for it - a waste of time!
I finally said enough!!! I was then faced with a dilemma: do I want to plunk down another $150 to upgrade to the latest 2010 version in hopes it will fix my problems or do I want to chuck everything and go with another word processing program? Problem was, the new word-processing program had to fit certain criteria: it had to be able to import Word documents, be able to create an index and a table of contents, and not have a problem with images.
I looked around at the free and paid word processors on the market. Some looked good, but they didn't have an indexing capacity or in one instance, it indexed every word in the document - not good. Then I remembered that eons ago there used to be a competitor to Word called Nisus. Was it still around? Would it fit the bill?
I Googled Nisus, and sure enough, it was still around and it is now called Nisus Writer Pro (from now on I will refer to it as Nisus). Fortunately, it had just undergone a major overhaul which added a multitude of new features. I looked closely, and yes it does create Table of Contents and Indexes (the latter being most important for my manual). I immediately got a copy and started the process of bringing my manual into Nisus.
Testing
Test #1- Importing the Word document into Nisus:
To my sunrise and delight, Nisus immediately opened my Word document and all the text and images seemed to be there!
Test #2 - Saving as a Nisus Document:
I immediately saved it (to get it out of Word's document format). This is were it got interesting. Instead of saving it again as a Word document or in a Nisus proprietary format - it was saved as an RTF (Rich Text Format) file. This is nice especially if you want to share the Nisus documents with other applications-since most word processors will recognize RTF documents. Problem was, when I double-clicked on a saved document, it defaulted to opening in TextEdit. But doing a Command-I (Get Info) and changing the "Open with" to Nisus, fixed this inconvenience.
Test #3 - Table of Contents
Though Word's Table of Contents (TOC) copied over to the new Nisus document - it needed a little tweaking to get it to rebuild/update properly. So I went to the beginning of my manual and deleted all the words in the TOC. Afterward, since Nisus still knew what words were supposed to be part of the TOC, all I had to do was tell it to "Insert (rebuild the) TOC". After that, everything worked properly.
Test #4 - Index
The index did not copy over properly from a Word .doc or .docx file. But (with a little help from tech support) I discovered that it would come over properly if (when in Word) I saved the document as a RTF file and brought that file into Nisus.
Test #5 - Lists
Almost every item written about in my manual is a "How To". I find it easiest to have the instructions laid out in numbered steps. Would these numbered lists come over properly? ---Yes! Wheeew! I did not want to have to re-do hundreds of lists.
Test #6 - Images
Most of my images remained intact. A few shifted locations a little, but not enough to cause a hassle to reposition.
Test #7 - Image placement
FYI: I typically change my image placement from "Inline with text" to "Moves with paragraph". This lets me place the images wherever I want, plus it lets the text wrap around the image. I moved around quite a few of the included images, plus added a number of new ones to the document. 99% stayed where I placed them. A few of the images wanted to snap to the edge of the page like they did in Word. Because it happened rarely and I wasn't transported 50 pages away every time I nudged an image, I can live with Nisus.
Learning to use Nisus
When I opened Nisus for the first time, I noticed how uncluttered it looked. If you are into simplicity, you can hide the toolbar and the Tooldrawer that sits off to the side of the window. So all you see is the document window. But if you are like me, you want the tools you use all the time right at your fingertips. So on one side of my document window is the Tooldrawer showing all the traditional Text, Document, and Graphic formatting tools. On the other side are my floating palettes for: Indexing, Table of Contents, Header/Footer, and Lists. With these tools I can quickly create my Index and Table of Contents, insert or modify my footers and headers, and create the lists for my manual.
One last modification to the interface was to remove and then add items from/to the toolbar using the "Customize Toolbar" option (which lets you quickly drag items to and from the Toolbar). After these few modifications, I was ready to really dig into the workings of Nisus. Of course I used my manual as the proving ground for my testing.
Indexing
Indexing in Word requires you to highlight the word or phrase, hit a four key combination to bring up the Indexing window, and then hit the "Mark" button to save the marked word. In Nisus I simply highlight the word and then click the "+" button in the floating Index tool palette. This is very quick. Of course if you want to get fancy, you can bring up the Tools menu> Index> "Index as" option if you want to make indented subcategories, have cross-references, or want to index a word under multiple topics.
In Word, other than looking in the Index, the only way to see what words were already indexed was to turn on the: "Show all non-printing characters" option. When you did, each indexed word is duplicated and then surrounded with squiggly brackets like this: {iPad}. Nisus, on the other hand has a better way of identifying indexed words. There is a preference that you can turn on which will automatically place a colored background (of your choosing) behind all indexed words. What's nice is that this is a non-printing color that can be turned on and off at your will.
Table of Contents
In Word you have to assign a Heading Style to the words you want placed in the Table of Contents. In Nisus, you simply highlight the words and choose the level of indention from a drop-down menu in the TOC floating palette. Quick and easy!
I am not aware of a way to see what has been added to the Table of Contents within Word. Nisus on the other hand will color-code all Table of contents words - just like with the indexed words. Now at first I was in a quandary. What to do if the same words were to appear in both the Index and the Table of Contents? Only one color can appear at a time. Then it dawned on me. I should only turn on the color coded background for the type of things I was currently doing. When I was indexing words, only the orange background shows. And vise versa for the Table of Contents. Problem solved.
Lists
It is very easy to create a List in Nisus. Simply highlight a word and select the Style of List (Numbered, Bulleted, Headings, Numbered, Lettered, Outlined or Tiered) from the drop-down-menu found in the List's floating palette. Afterward simply hit the "<" or the ">" buttons in the Lists floating palette to increase or decrease the indenting of a particular line or group of lines. Done!
I may have missed the instructions on how to do this within Word, but one of my gripes was that if you wanted to marry two different lists into one list or if you wanted to include the following paragraphs into the previous list, you had to backspace the second group until it was part of the last line of the previous list. Then you had to hit the return to have it get a consecutive number. This procedure had to be performed with each additional paragraph that you wanted to include in the list (backspace - return, backspace - return. WHAT A HASSEL!!!) ---BUT NOT WITH NISUS!!!! If I want the next sentence or group of paragraphs to be part of the previous list - I simply highlight the sentences, use the Lists palette to specify that these are also a list and then choose the: "Continue numbering from previous" option. Immediately the numbers change to be consecutive from the previous list. Sweet!
The Statusbar (at the bottom of the document)
This is a big plus! I like it! Not only do I (temporarily) color-code the background of my indexes and TOC words, but I color-code various parts of my manual: black for the instructions, blue for additional helpful information, red for important steps that must not be missed, etc. In Nisus if I place my cursor in a section of colored text, a little dot "Tag" (of the same color as the text) appears in the Statusbar. When you click on this dot, a menu pops up that lets you: Remove Color, Select Range, or Select All (which selects all instances of that color in the document). This is a big timesaver. I have had instances where the color I chose on the screen didn't meet my expectations when printed. Rather than having to go throughout the whole document to highlight and change every instance of that color, I simply choose the "Select all" option and then choose a new color. Immediately that color in the whole document is changed to the new color. Nice!
The other informational "Tags" that appear in the Statusbar are for the: Ruler, List, Font/Character attributes, Background color, Highlight color, Language, Clipboard, and Magnifying glass. The Font/Character attributes tag lets you copy only the Font of the selected text and then paste that font attribute to another set of text. This is a nice timesaver versus scrolling through hundreds or thousands of fonts to get to the desired replacement font.
Track Changes / Show comments
If you collaborate with other people on a document, you can turn on the "Track Changes" option. This highlights any changed text within the document. Plus the original text appears in the "Track Changes Pane" (that pops up next to the document).
You can also add comments to a document using the "Comments Pane" that pops up to the left of the document window. These comments can be read or added to by the other people reading your document. All comments are stamped with the date, time, and name of the person who created it. There are previous/next arrows that let you quickly jump to the next or previous comment.
Saving / Exporting
I have had crashes in the past with Word where I have lost hours or days of work due to not saving as often as I should. Because of this, I have gotten into the habit of constantly hitting Command-S to save my document. I don't even think about it, my fingers just do it automatically. Since my manual is so big (with all its pages and inserted graphics), it takes more than few seconds to save its contents. During that time I might be thinking about other things or get sidetracked. Finally I look back and discover that the saving process is done. How long it has been done - I don't know. Now with Nisus, I have turned on its alarm that emits a simple "Ding" that signifies the saving process is done. I like that! No lost time now.
Saving formats:
Documents can be saved in these formats:
Rich Text Format (RTF) file,
Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD) file,
Document Template (DOT),
Microsoft Word Format (97 and later also known as ".doc") file,
Nisus Compressed Rich Text (a gzipped RTF) file to save space, with the extension ".zrtf, a Nisus Macro file,
Nisus Perl Macro,
Plain Text file.
Import From:
RTF (Rich Text Format)
Microsoft Word (97-2004 .doc)
DOCX
WordPerfect
OpenDocument (ODT)
HTML
Nisus Writer Classic
plain text (Unicode and legacy encodings)
'Export As:
RTF (Rich Text Format)
Microsoft Word (.doc)
DOCX
OpenDocument (ODT)
PDF
EPUB
HTML
plain text (Unicode and legacy encodings)
This review only scratches the surface on what you can do with Nisus. Some of Nisus' other features are: Add Watermarks, Line numbering, Foreign language support (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukh, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts, and right to left text such as in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian) and an Interactive Spell Checker and Thesaurus that is language sensitive. The Search engine will find: all 5 digit numbers, all capitalized words, words ending in "ing" that occurs at the beginning of a paragraph, or search based on the formatting applied to your text, e.g. any text appearing in Bold. Nisus can also cross-reference bookmarks, footnotes, and lists. BTW: cross-references are automatically pre-linked to the relevant portion of the document in saved PDF documents. I don't have room to cover it all. But if this peaks your interest. I suggest you download the demo and give Nisus a test run. I don't think you will be disappointed.
So what's the verdict? Well Word, we had a long relationship. But your days are over! Helloooo Nisus!!!
5 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Horrible support experience ! Feb 28, 2009
By John
Nisus has nice software, but they will not support you. Avoid this stuff !! I wrote them about 10 times after my Nisus crashed, and they just blow you off with short e-mails. Terrible support. Avoid at all costs !!
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