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Mellel 1.7.5, a major update to the advanced multilingual word processor, was released today. The updated version offers extensive RTF import and export support, .doc import and export, bulleted and numbered lists, and 35 other new features and enhancements. The update is free to all registered users of Mellel and can be downloaded directly from the company's web site. A free trial version is also available.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- April 06, 2004 -- RedleX today announced the availability of Mellel 1.7.5, a major update to the acclaimed word processor for Mac OS X. Mellel 1.7.5 offers a long list of new features and enhancements, including some eagerly anticipated features like extensive RTF import and export and bulleted and numbered lists. The update is free to all registered users of Mellel
"Mellel 1.7.5 integrates two of the most popular requests and suggestions among our users," claims Guy Hivroni, cofounder and chief GUI designer for Mellel. "Most of our users want to keep in touch with the Windows world, publications and colleagues. They also want to convert their old word processor files to Mellel. Like it or not, RTF is currently the only way for most of them to do that," he adds.
The new and enhanced RTF import and export support in Mellel is tailored to smoothly fit into a writing or a scholarly workflow. The special import and export engine developed by RedleX allows users smooth integration with both Mac OS X RTF and MS Word RTF brands. The enhanced copy options even offer moving text combined with footnotes and tables directly into MS Word.
Another feature added by popular demand is bulleted and numbered lists. "Many people requested this feature, and most of them added a warning: just don't make this confusing and buggy as with other word processors," says Eyal Redler, CTO at RedleX. The result of this request and warning is the all new List palette in Mellel 1.7.5, offering all the expected options in lists and adding some exciting new innovations.
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WHAT'S NEW IN MELLEL 1.7.5
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The new version of Mellel provides over 15 new features, enhancements, and improvements, in six areas:
[1] RTF export and import.
[2] .doc export and import.
[3] Font Matching with RTF and .doc import and export
[4] Bulleted and numbered lists
[5] Compact view and other GUI enhancements
[6] Copy and copy special options
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New RTF Export and Import
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[1] New RTF export engine (earlier versions relied on Apple's RTF engine)
[2] Text export support, including: font, font face, size, colour, superscript/subscript, underline, strikethrough, and more.
[3] Paragraph export support, including: paragraph margins, tabs, space above and below paragraph, line spacing, and more.
[4] Tables export support, including: table borders (colour, width, visibility), horizontal cell merging, cell width, horizontal position, diagonals, and more.
[5] Footnotes and endnotes export support, including: footnotes and endnotes (separate), numbering scheme (Arabic, Roman, Latin, etc.), start at numbering, restart at every page, and more.
[6] Page export support, including: page size, page orientation, page margins.
[7] Bullets and numbering, auto-numbers, variables, dates, citations, etc.: export support: all those are "flattened" to text but their integrity is maintained.
[8] RTF Import support: major speed improvements.
[9] RTF Import support, tables: column width, border colours, border line widths, border visibility, table horizontal location, horizontally merged cells, diagonal lines.
RTF Import: Correctly recognises / +cr as a paragraph break, default tab is recognised, correct support for auto and fixed line spacing, automated creation of document character styles for font+size combinations.
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New Doc Export and Import
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[11] Import from .doc (Panther only): Including support for font, font face and most character and paragraph style options. This option does not support footnotes and endnotes or tables.
[12] Export to .doc (Panther only): Including support for font, font face and most character and paragraph style options. This option does not support footnotes and endnotes or tables.
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Font Matching with Import
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[13] Import Font matching panel: a special panel that appears when you import .doc or RTF files and lets you match the fonts in the imported file with the fonts in your system.
[14] Smart matching algorithm: When importing RTF or .doc files Mellel uses a smart algorithm to match fonts by name, PostScript name, type of font (e.g., a Roman or sans-serif) and even by the generating application. Font matches where the smart matching failed are highlighted.
[15] Saved matches: A "Make Default" option allows you to save your favourite matches to a special font matching file. Once saved, those matches will be automatically applied.
[16] Show font matching panel: you can set in the preferences or when importing files whether to always display the font matching panel, display only when problems are detected, or never display the panel.
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Bulleted and Numbered Lists
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[17] List panel: Including all the list options.
[18] List creation: List are allowed in the document text, tables, notes (footnotes, endnotes), and headers/footers.
[19] List control: including buttons to create, increase, decrease and reset lists.
[20] List styles: Creating, naming, editing and deleting styles.
[21] Changing list styles: You can apply a list style directly from the document by selecting any list style. Styles may also be switched on the fly.
[22] List elements positioning: There are controls for positioning the symbol, the indent point (where the text starts) and the margin (where the next level starts).
[23] Live editing of lists: You can manipulate the positioning of elements via the ruler and have the list change instantaneously.
[24] Per level list editing: you can edit the list style per-level in the document and save changes to a level without affecting other levels.
[25] Rich symbol and numbering selection: You can choose a symbol type from any of our numbering schemes (for numbered lists) or a selection of bullets.
[26] Mixing bullets and numbering: You can mix bullets and numbering within the same list. For example, you can have a list with a base level using numbering, level two using bullets, and level three using Roman numerals.
[27] Symbol format: You can set the symbol wrapping (dot, braces, etc.).
[28] Symbol character style and variation: To use the style you would like to have with the list.
[29] Start at: To set the start number for the list.
[30] Default list style: You can set the default List style to be used when you start a list from the preferences.
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Compact View and GUI Enhancements
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[31] Compact view: Allows viewing only the contents of the page, with a minimal margin around the page and between pages.
[32] Smaller minimum: Allows you to shrink a document window to a much smaller size, saving around 30 per cent in window "real estate."
[33] View default: You can set your default for document view in the preferences. You can also change it from the Window menu, of course.
[34] Narrow palettes: All the palettes are now 15 per cent narrower and around 15 per cent less taller. This allows for better fit with smaller screen sizes.
[35] Centred view: the page view is now centred (horizontally) when you change the window's width. This option works in both Mellel (regular) and Compact view.
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Copy and Copy Special Options
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[36] Copy plain text: Copies only the text, but leaves out any stylistic attribute.
[37] Copy character attributes: Copies only the character attributes. Can be uses as a "style brush" of sorts.
[38] Copy paragraph attributes: Copies only the paragraph attributes. Can be uses as a "style brush" of sorts.
[39] Copy list attributes: When in a list allows you to copy the list attributes.
[40] Flexible copying to clipboard: when copying text with footnotes, endnotes, citations, and so on, the copied content will be pasted flexibly depending on the application it is pasted into. For example, when pasting text with footnotes into MS Word the tables and the notes will be maintained as notes in MS Word. When pasted into a plain text application the notes will be pasted as text.
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Localised versions
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[41] Norwegian localisation
[42] Other localisations: including Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish. Swedish.
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ABOUT MELLEL
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Mellel is an advanced, multilingual word processor for Mac OS X. Mellel offers many sophisticated word processing features, with many more to come over the next few months.
For a detailed (though not complete) comparison between Mellel and other word processors see: http://www.redlers.com/generalcomparison.html
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PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
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Mellel can be purchased for just US$29. To purchase Mellel go to:
http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=MQK&lang=en
For details about other purchasing options to to: http://www.redlers.com/aboutbuying.html
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ABOUT REDLEX
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RedleX was founded in 2002 by Eyal Redler, Ori Redler and Guy Hivroni. The company is privately held and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Our site: RedleX site: http://www.redlers.com/
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