Hi Jane and Others, Jane asked: Is ther a good ERTF file editor for the DropBox to install on an iPod? What is it, if there is sucha thing?
I've just come across an app that might be usable for editing Dropbox RTF files for the iPad, but there's no version for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It's called Textilus Word Processor and the developer is knowtilus. Here's the URL at the iTunes app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textilus-word-processor/id537818639?mt=8 I found this because it just went on sale today for $0.99, and I haven't had a chance to play around with this much yet. The way this works when you create or edit a document is that there's an extended keyboard with an extra row of buttons above the top row of letters. The buttons on the top left of the keyboard are for alignment, bold, italic, underline, special characters, other commands, and tabs (which weirdly gets announced as "capital A"). Then at the top center is a "Magic Cursor" button that you have to use the double tap and hold gesture to bring up, which does actions like select all or move to the start or end of the document. On the top right are the buttons for font type and size. The top row buttons let you handle formatting and special characters. For example, "Other Commands" lets you select options like title, subtitle, heading 1, heading 2, ordered list, or unordered list in addition to subscripting, superscripting, and the default body style. "Special Chars" lets you insert web links, date & time, as well as several classes of special symbols, such as bullets, currency, arrows, punctuation, math symbols, etc. These lists are pretty extensive, and there are more symbols than VoiceOver on the iOS device will read, especially in categories like pictographs, arrow variations, or some of the math symbols, but most special character options are announced. There's also a "recently used" category of special characters. One feature I wasn't able to change with VoiceOver was the line spacing. Double tapping the "Helvetica" button brings up a "Text Style" pop up menu, but the size and line spacing of the font don't get announced here. Font size is announced and can get changed with buttons to the right, either by choosing common font sizes, or by increasing or decreasing the current font size with buttons. Dropbox linking can be set up using the "App menu toolbar" button on the "My Documents" titlebar. There's a document that appears in your list of documents named "How it works?" when you link with Dropbox. It explains that it creates an "Apps/Textilus" folder under your Dropbox, and that only documents placed ther will sync and show up in the Textilus app. You can place RTF, .TXT, .DOC, or .DOCX documents in this folder. Empty folders in this location will be removed from the document picker and unlinked. Textilus also supports syncing with Scrivener, which is a Mac writing application that also now has a Windows version. (The Mac version of Scrivener is very accessible, but I don't know about the Windows version. However, there are free trial downloads of both from the Literature and Latte developer's site.) Maybe some Windows iPad users can try this app out and report back. HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
