Comments on: Documents to Go Version 11 released

By: Tam Hanna, Site Founder

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:45:06 +0000

Hi,
I think that the change tracking is one of the features which really made the app fat: every function must be modified to add it…

All the best
Tam Hanna

By: Ryan Rix

Ryan Rix — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:50:15 +0000

Hi J,

well, perhaps then it is the plethora of new templates (most likely stored in the prc?) or something I am missign entirely…

Chris Hamilton,
I have put you in contact with the site’s owner Tam Hann!

All the best,
Ryan

By: j

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:44 +0000

Office 2007 support was already on Docs To Go 10.

By: Chris Hamilton

Chris Hamilton — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:18:20 +0000

Hi Ryan,

I manage an Australian Mobile Phone Network and was hoping you would be open to a link exchange? You can email me at the above address so we can discuss it further if you’d like.

Thanks,
Chris

By: Ryan Rix, Vice Administrator

Ryan Rix, Vice Administrator — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:38:05 +0000

Hi folks,

Yes, the ‘open’ word XML format is quite a mess, just like all microsoft formats…

Office suites that want to support multiple formats really *have* to be gargantuan… It sucks but it’s just a fact of life…

Personally I’m still waiting for ODT support before I will throw in… May never happen but one can dream, no?

~Ryan

By: Tam Hanna, Site Founder

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:40:26 +0000

Hello,
I have to admit that these new features are crucial for me – I have missed them since v4 on my old IIIc.

As for size: DocumentsToGo has always been a very fat app – like all office suites. IMHO, its largely the file formats which are to blame…there was a post on that one day at a dev blog but I dont have it handy anymore.

The specs of the file formats are like 500p each…which leads to quite a bit of code.

All the best
Tam Hanna

By: Rob Smythe

Rob Smythe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:11:04 +0000

Yes, I think there is a problem with the code quality. I just downloaded it and noticed there was 1.09 mb placed on my Palm Tungsten C PDA.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:52:17 +0000

Version 10.002: 530 kb in size
Version 11.000: 1m in size
Two times in size for the above features? Is there something wrong with quality of codes?