Atlantis Word Processor 1.6.5.6

Rated 20/50 by lucianct at Feb 6, 2008

innovative, not bloatware, easy of use... nope, i don't find any of these

Rated 30/50 by Aegis69 at Mar 10, 2009

How is this better than Abiword?

Rated 10/50 by kindbud1 at Mar 11, 2009

got money to burn? buy MS Office. broke? use Open Office (or pirate the above) but why in the hell would I pay 35 bucks for this? to avoid bloat? lol.

Rated 40/50 by pjafrombbay at Mar 11, 2009

Aegis69 - Its better than AbiWord in one particular area at least - you can PRINT your document and it will look like what you typed! A much better comparison would have been OOo Writer. Atlantis is a very good word processor. Sure you have to pay for it but if all you want is a word processor then you get that without all the OOo and MS Office bloat. Highly recommended. Peter

Rated 50/50 by tycoonc12 at Mar 28, 2009

"good software bit pricey" easy to use enough features for most people no tables, kind of pricey

Rated 10/50 by JaDaDowntown at May 12, 2009

Why we need this? What's the point? The opensource community have a lot of good projects. Abiword, go-office (Novell's openoffice), Lotus (IBM's openoffice), OpenOffice and many another unique builds. I give you one star. My MS office 2007 works perfect (with crossover) on my openSUSE Linux Box.

Rated 20/50 by Banquo at Jun 2, 2009

If this was free, I probably wouldn't use it because there are so many other free word processors out there that are more mature and well supported. However, charging $35 for this? LMAO, seriously that is hilarious.

Rated 30/50 by DaComboMan at Jun 3, 2009

At this time in the game, at best it should be shareware/donation ware. With Zoho, Google Docs, Jarte etc. who wants to pay that much for a fourth of an office suite?

Rated 50/50 by jenfox70 at Jun 18, 2009

"Great free word processor!" Familiar and intuitive layout, easy to use. Good tool buttons. Helpful drop-down menus. Clean look. The little sounds are kind of annoying, but easily disabled, either as a group or individually.

Rated 40/50 by T_Bearr at Jul 11, 2009

Fully featured RTF editor (or if you prefer, word processor) Excellent Help file A Great Many User Configurable Options In short a very good editor. There may be a bit of a learning curve for those new to this type of editor. But hang in there. It's a great little word processor once you become familiar with it's many user-configurable options supplemented by a very good HELP file. Atlantis 1.6.4 is NOT a free program. It's shareware: 30 day trial then $35.00. There is, however, a "Trial Pay" program which allows you to get Atlantis for free if you purchase a "Trial Pay" preferred partner item, many of which may appeal to users. In effect you can, for example, purchase flowers for a loved one via Trial Pay and get Atlantis for free. Atlantis itself is an excellent richly featured RTF editor capable of saving documents in several formats and very user-configurable. It comes with an excellent HELP file which is also very well done.

Rated 10/50 by affaiec at Jul 27, 2009

"Its ok only" not too many pros here i'm afraid, fast? Maybe. Try it yourself and see. This is always the best way to software. far too bells and whistles. The writers are just not listening to the users!. They are adding useless items and not adding those things which the users demand be: tables, Try it, it might be for you, or you just might uninstall at once.

Rated 50/50 by pjafrombbay at Sep 24, 2009

I've owned a copy of Atlantis for three or four years now. Why use bloat-ware like M$ Office or OOo if you only need word processing? If you need a spreadsheet as well the have a look at GS-Calc from Citadel-5 Software (http://www.citadel5.com/). Atlantis is really good. Regards, Peter

Rated 20/50 by cricri_pingouin at Oct 18, 2009

Pros: very lightweight, you can even carry it on a pen drive. Cons: I only went as far as finding one, but a big one: it is very incompatible with Word files. Compatibility is so bad that I found Wordpad to do a better job. So if I wanted something lightweight, I'd just use Wordpad, which is more compatible and you don't even have to worry abut carrying it around. For the fun of it, I tried to open a 200 pages thesis, and it hanged. I thought it would just render the formatting poorly, but nope, instead it crashed. In other words, I had low expectations, and it failed to meet them. So overall, not worth the money. Either use Wordpad if you want to save cash and not have to install a large package. And if you want the full blown compatibility with support for all bells and whistles, it looks like you'll still have to stick with MS Office. I'll still keep an eye on it, but it looks like it will take some time before it can be properly usable. And when they do, I bet that they'll crank up the already high price tag, so I'm not holding my breath.

Rated 20/50 by netean at Oct 30, 2009

Having looked at the mess of a UI (from the screenshot) I wasn't overly hopeful - seriously how to make a program look confusing - stick 1000 icons all over it. I installed it nonetheless.. erm, it was... well it was ok. Not terrible, but not that good either. OK I didnt' test it thoroughly, but to be honest that was because it's so damn fugly - it's really horrible to use. I found use it, even in basic form, just.. lacking.. somehow. If it was free, I'd say, ok, maybe it'd be worth hanging on to. But There are some pretty good freeware word processors already: Abiword, Openoffice (if you can stand the huge download) Heck, even wordpad is ok when there's nothing else. Openoffice, is significantly better than this, Abiword is too, and Abiword is also a lot lot easier to use also. Openoffice & Abiword are portable, so I really can't find a reason why I'd ever use this. It's not good, it's not free and there are cheaper and better alternatives out there. Sorry, to dis this, clearly there's a lot of work gone into it - but when there are good freeware apps out there shareware apps need to up their game and be significantly better. This, sadly, just isn't

Rated 50/50 by bnsquash at Oct 31, 2009

Great program. Love the recently added ability to create epub files for ebook readers. Much easier to use Atlantis for this than, say, Sigil or BookDesigner if you have a lot of formatting changes to make, what with Atlantis's excellent Styles implementation. This assumes you can get your source into Atlantis, which you usually can if you get creative. Output files work great on Sony and Hanlin ereaders (the only devices I have available). A friend of mine says they also look good on his iPod Touch using the Stanza reader program. It's good to see a word processor actually developing new features to keep up with modern trends such as the rising popularity of ebooks, rather than just relying on poorly-written third-party plugins to do the job for them. Seems like a lot of word processors these days seems to be primarily interested in reshuffling their user interface.

Rated 50/50 by soschief at Dec 2, 2009

"Best word-processing purchase I've made" When Atlantis allowed for reading .docx documents, it solved all problems for interface. It has many bells and whistles that I really like, farm more than other processors. It also has a portable for jack drives, One lacking is its ability to show tables in documents--many times, the table format is lost. I bought it years ago and have kept up with the updates. Am completely satisfied, and would surely buy it again,

Rated 50/50 by D1dad at Dec 12, 2009

"all the bells" ease of use nothing about this processor

Rated 50/50 by 07memyselfi at Dec 15, 2009

"I have loved this program. It works better than word." Scaning pages into this program was flawless, effortless easy. Love this program. As far as I know there aren't any. But I haven't used every function available. Try it and I know you will like it.

Rated 50/50 by bobad at Dec 30, 2009

Great! Very light, and just the features you need for an every day word processor. Has 95% of the features of WinWord with 5% of the bulk. I especially like the way it uses WordWeb thesaurus, and has an inline spell checker. Try it, you won't be disappointed!

Rated 50/50 by ramda01 at Feb 4, 2010

"Nice Alternative to Microsoft Word" Alternative to Microsoft Word with most of the features but not all the advanced ones. None that I found although I did have to turn off the sound, it got really annoying. If you only use word this is a great product which I use a lot and nobody knows . I only wish there were the same alternative for Excel.