Sudbury, Mass. (June 3, 2002) -- Sophist Solutions has shipped LedIt! 3.0 a cross-platform word processor. LedIt! is based on the Led word-processor building class library (http://www.sophists.com/Led/LedClassLib/). LedIt! takes full advantage of the modern user interface features of Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Linux/X-Windows, and the Macintosh, such as Drag and Drop, OLE Automation, UNICODE, and Internet URLs.

New in this release of LedIt!

• Linux/X-Windows support (including Gtk and GNOME)
• Full Unicode support, including Microsoft Global IME support (Windows version only)
• Bullet lists, soft returns and paragraph/line spacing options
• (Optionally) Show invisible characters (paragraph markers, tabs, and spaces)
• Store persistent sizes internally in TWIPS (provides better handing of zooming and scaling)
• Hidden text
  Ability to mark some regions as 'hidable', and then set global (or per-item) flag saying if that hidable text should really be hidden, or be shown in some (configurable) alternate display (so the user can see its hidden).
• Improved drag and drop
  
• New 'properties' menu item to get detailed information about embeded objects
  
• Improved picture saving (in RTF)
  
• Windows Installer support (Windows only)
  New installer based on Microsoft's new Windows Installer technology

Pricing and availability

LedIt! is free to individuals to use as they like, but you may not freely redistribute LedIt! without specific license from Sophist Solutions, Inc.

More Information

Sophist Solutions is a software consulting company specializing in the design and implementation of object-oriented systems, tools and libraries, graphical user interfaces (Macintosh, Windows, X-Windows), distributed applications, and Internet technologies (e.g. Java, TCP/IP, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, HTTP, HTML, XML, RDF, .NET, CORBA etc). Sophist Solutions may be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.sophists.com/

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