Words Processor Comparison (Kelime İşlemci Programlarının Karşılaştırılması)

     I.            iPages

iPages is a word processor (iWork) and a page layout application developed by Apple Inc. iPage is a flexible and well-rounded web service that is perfect for beginner and intermediate users. Users can collaborate with others on a document. Pages tracks changes by different users by displaying each person's edits in different colors. Users can also add comments alongside the document. In page layout mode, users have complete control over the position of objects on the page. Images and text can be placed anywhere on the canvas.

·         Advantage

The Media Browser provides quick access to media of iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, and Aperture. Users can drag and drop music, movies, and photos directly into Pages documents from the Media Browser window. iPage also has blog and photo gallery setup wizards, and it supports numerous content management systems, blogs, photo galleries and forum plugins such as Joomla, WordPress, Gallery2 and Gbook. If you want to add multimedia files to your website, you will enjoy the fact iPage supports Macromedia Shockwave, Midi File, Flash, and Real Audio and Video.

You can access an FTP account manager, add unlimited FTP accounts and enjoy the benefits of anonymous FTP security. This protection includes support for .htaccess to control user access to directories with sensitive information.

·         Disadvantage

As nothing could be really perfect, there are still some limitations existing in iPage web hosting service, among which the lack for some important web hosting features is the most serious one for webmasters requiring extremely easy website management and enhanced website security.

For instance, SSH is not supported, which may cause security issues in remote website and server management. Besides, Cron Job is not available, either. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and just runs on the OS X and iOS operating systems so Linux user or windows cannot runs this program. iPages does not support OpenDocument file format. The only known software other than Pages which can open its files are the Google Docs Viewer and Jumpshare. While there is no program that can view or edit a .pages file using Windows or Linux, some content can be retrieved from a document created in iPages '09, because a .pages file is actually a bundle.

II.        Applix word (Linux Word Processors)

This is a suite of modular applications edited by Vista source, Inc. Applix's first office suite, introduced in 1986, was called Alis, and was marketed with Alice in Wonderland themed promotional items. One such was a mug depicting the tea party scene from the book, with a Cheshire cat that disappeared when the mug was filled with a hot beverage.

·         Advantage

Applix Office Suite for Linux includes an ensemble of professional X-Windows tools for Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Graphics, Presentations, Email, WYSIWYG Web page editing, and more. These easy-to-use programs are compatible with common file formats, including Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, graphics formats, and many others. Features: Applix Words - Customizable WYSIWYG word processor and desktop publishing program; Applix Spreadsheets - Spreadsheet and database application; Applix Presentations - Full-featured presentation program; Applix Graphics - Drawing, charting, and graphic. It loads very quick land is very responsive in usage.

·         Disadvantage

This word processor not suite to the other users likes windows and mac. Applix Words has never seemed to enjoy the enthusiasm of the Linux community. Because it tends to lack some of the more sophisticated features high-end professionals look for, there's a disturbing tendency to write it off as unsuited for "serious" work and there’s some import file limitations.

III.        WordPerfect office X6

WordPerfect Office X6 consists of 16 core products including WordPerfect X6 word processor, Quattro Pro X6 spreadsheet program, Presentations X6 slideshow creator, Corel WordPerfect Lightning digital notebook, Paradox database management system, and WordPerfect eBook Publisher (also new for X6).

·         Advantage

a)      Microsoft Office Compatibility this compatibility with all versions of Microsoft Office DOC & DOCX, XLS & XLSX, PPT and PPTX files, but it's important

b)      Support for over 60 File Formats - A good office suite can load all the ten or eleven commonest files and formats, but a great office suite can load and edit them all including Open Document Format (ODF)

c)       Reveal Codes (true nerd-vana) - One of WordPerfect's best known features from the old days (the '80s & early '90s in particular) was the ability to manipulate reveal codes, the normally hidden code symbols which are used by the software to indicate format (line breaks, paragraph breaks, tabs, page end, page break, lists, etc. The latest version of WordPerfect doesn't disappoint so you can use 'em if you like 'em or like most people keep them hidden

·         Disadvantage

If you're a mainly conventional office suite user, you won't care at all about this, but the biggest absence in WordPerfect Office X6 (compared to the competition) is any sort of integrated online/cloud document storage, control, sharing and editing component as there is with Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and Office 365, Google Apps for Business, ThinkFree and Zoho. Obviously, you can use Google Docs or Google Drive, ThinkFree or Zoho to upload, download and share any Microsoft Office-compatible document, so if you're using WordPerfect Office X6 you can save files in Microsoft formats in order to do broadly compatible sharing and editing online. It's a bit clumsy, but exemplifies how far Corel and other office productivity software makers have to go to compete head-to-head in the home or business office with Microsoft and Google.

IV.        Kingsoft Office (WPS Office)

WPS Office (an initialism for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) developed by now Zhuhai based Chinese software developer Kingsoft. Kingsoft Office is a suite of software which is made up of three primary components: Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Presentation, and Kingsoft Spreadsheet.

·         Advantage

This office suite for Microsoft Windows, Linux (currently in Alpha state), iOS and Android OS. The basic version is free to use, but a fully featured professional-grade version is also available. The suite allows you to export files in PDF Format. You can also save the file in many common extension.

Input & Output Formats of Kingsoft Writer:

Ø  Input file formats: Word (97/2000/2003/2007/2010) .doc, .dot, .docx, .dotx, .docm, .dotm; .rtf, .txt, .xml, Kingsoft .wps and .wpt formats.

Ø  Output file formats: Word (97/2000/2003/2007/2010) .doc, .dot, .docx, .dotx, .docm, .dotm; .rtf, .txt, Kingsoft .wps and .wpt formats.

·         Disadvantage

1. If you compare the Kingsoft Office suite with microsoft office, Kingsoft Office writer lacks Thesaurus. It also lacks the ability to add pictures directly from internet.
2. The Kingsoft office consists only 3 tools i.e. writer, presentation, spreadsheets. Where is MS Office includes Outlook, Publisher, and Access too.

V.        Libre Office

Libre Office Writer is the free and open-source word processor component of the Libre Office software package and is a fork of OpenOffice.org Writer. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some identical features.

·         Advantage

It's the only office suite that runs on all desktop and laptop platforms—Windows, OS X, and Linux. It even runs on eight-year-old Macs that use PowerPC processors instead of the Intel CPUs on current Mac hardware. Versions for Android and iOS are in the works, but they won't emerge until later this year or 2014. Version 4.0, recently released, looks a lot like the long-running 3.x series, but has massive invisible changes designed to let it move into the tablet era and provide a new API for corporate and government programmers to interact with it.

Even if you don't use Libre Office for day-to-day work, it's worth having for its unparalleled set of import and export filters that let you open almost any document format you're likely to find, especially in government and law offices that have been accumulating documents for decades. For example, Libre Office is the only non-Microsoft app that opens Microsoft Works and Microsoft Publisher files, and it opens files created by the old WordPerfect for the Mac word-processor that even WordPerfect for Windows can't handle.

·         Disadvantage

1. When compared to MS Office is definitely not packed with features. If you use Excel extensively, then Libre Office is not for you. Features like text to columns, pivot tables are available in Libre Office and they are more than enough for daily activities for certain people.
2. Really bad to look at. When compared to MS Excel, Libre Calc just looks ugly. And now that Microsoft's Metro UI looks so slick, Libre will just seem to get uglier. Fonts are bad. The characters seem to overflow out of their cells. Overall, the design of libre office just sucks. And the placement of buttons and menus is just bad. MS Excel's ribbon interface gives easy access to everything I want.
3. Add in - I personally use a lot of Add-Ins for Excel. Some of them include Power Pivot and Excellent Analytics. Power Pivot was a brilliant tool which I miss in Libre Calc.

4.      MS Excel is freaking fast. The Libre Office sometimes crashes when you paste One  rows of data. The screen goes semi grey and that’s the end of it. I was able to process One  rows on Excel very easily. Although, it did take some time, I was still content that I could process something like that.