
Dagesh Pro IV

Dagesh
Pro IV
Worlds #1 Hebrew-English Word
Processor + FREE Haggada Text
Age Level: 10-Adult
Media: CD-ROM
Version: Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP
See
also:
Dagesh Pro IV Upgrade
Dagesh Pro OCR Plus Dagesh Pro
Bundle
Dagesh Pro IV Competitive Upgrade
ISBN: 1-931711-08-9
About - Dagesh Pro IV
The best Hebrew-English Wordprocessor
just got (MUCH) better! New Features
PLUS Now you can edit and Print
your own Passover Haggadah! Just
some of the new features: Wrap
around graphics, background graphics,
split and merge cells in tables,
Cantillation Marks (trop), Automatic
nikud with user-adjustable nikud
location, Microsoft Word filter,
Save to HTML, Horizontal and Vertical
Rulers, 600 New Templates, Interactive
real-time spell-checking (as you
type!)...PLUS new Windows XP interface,
many more new features and enhancements!
Dagesh... The easiest and fastest
word processor... is an amazing
program.
Its my recommendation for the
Windows environment.
DAVID GOLDMAN YEDIOT AHARONOT
The most impressive technology
I found on my visit to Israel...
Simply AMAZING.
JOHN C. DVORAK PC MAGAZINE Columnist
... Slick Powerful...
WALT MOSBERG THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
...heaven-sent...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Features -
Dagesh Pro
IV
Wordprocessing
Features
New XP Graphic Interface... Footnotes
with built-in Hypertext... Page Layout -
text and graphic wrapping... Text Drag
and Drop... Spell Checks in 7
Languages... Spell Checks Hebrew and
English in a single pass... Real Time
Spell checker with right click power
speller... Unlimited Undo/Redo... Easy
Column & table Insertion... Text flows
through multiple pages to fill
columns... Create Invisible Tables and
Columns for intricate page layout...
EXCLUSIVE Built-in Auto - Nikud (adds
vowels automatically) WITH Manual Nikud
Corerection... Easy entry of Taamim (Cantillation
Notes)... Over 100 True Type Fonts and
Ding Bats... Compatible with all TT
Fonts... Internet Ready - Saves your
work as HTML (Multilingual Websites!)...
On Screen virtual keyboards for easy
typing... Floating and Break Off Tool
Bars... Mix 2-3 even up to 10 Languages
in a single document ( Ideal for
Translating work)... Search & Replace...
Linked Style Sheets... Sorting of
Tables... Convert text to Tables...
Sophisticated Mail Marge... Print
Preview... Auto Numbering... Auto
Bullets... Bookmarks... Importing of
Graphics... Linked Graphics... Multi -
line self adjusting Tables...Precise
Nikud Placement... Insert Document...
Supports two sided printing (Odd-Even
pagination) Inheritance and Control of
Style Sheets... |
Graphic Features
New Graphic Viewer, Insert, place, drag
and size graphics, Graphic wrap-around,
background and foreground placementNew
Graphic Filters including all popular
formats Judaic Clipart Library
Kindgarten Crown Maker Bible Maps in
Color Hundreds of photographs of from
Israel New Templates, Forms, Greeting
Cards etc. Color characters or
background Save Text files as graphic
Save as HTML create - Internet pages |
Publishing Aids
Size Flip... Edit and Color Graphics...
Print Preview Auto-Numbering Auto-
Bullets Bookmarks Importing of Graphics
Linked graphics Multi-line
self-adjusting Tables Support for
two-sided printing (Even/Odd)
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Cliptext Features
Full Tanach (Hebrew Bible)
with Vowels... Includes two siddurim...
Siddur Ashkenaz... Siddur Sephard...
Complete Shabbat Prayers... Weekly Torah
& Haftarah Readings... Shabbat Songs...
Perkei Avot... Holiday Prayers including
High Holy Days... all texts are
formatted and Voweled ready top print or
edit... |
Utilities
Dozens of Hot Key and Short
Cuts... Word Count...Long File Names
including Hebrew Auto Headers and
Footers New improved interface/toolbars
Improved Import/Export Filters for
Microsoft Word files Imports/Exports to
all popular wordprocessors Save User
preferences |
System Features
Compatible with Windows
98/2000/ME/NT/XP... Auto Save... Online
Built In Windows Help... Easy to use
Tool Tips... |
Reviews
- Dagesh Pro IV
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
(1/1/1999) wrote:
Rating: ***** 5 stars out of 5
If Windows is the heart of a personal
computer, without which it cant
function, a high-level word processing
program is the brain. Having a
cheap, basic word processor is
fine for the minority of computers
used only for games; but if you
want to produce professional-looking
letters and reports, there is
no substitute for a quality word
processor.
Most of the world uses the excellent
Microsoft Word, which costs nearly
$300; if you want to type in Hebrew,
however, you must add Microsofts
special Hebrew edition of Word.
And if you want to insert text
in a few dozen other languages,
from Arabic to Croatian to Russian,
you cant.
Dagesh 2000 (its name in Israel,
or Dagesh Pro, its marketing name
abroad) is an outstanding improvement
on Dageshs four previous editions,
the first of which was released
in 1992. The current version,
produced by the new owners - GalTech
Soft Ltd. in the Har Hotzvim Industrial
Zone - is completely new, even
though it was built on the experience
gained from all the previous versions.
According to TES president Emanuel
Fishman, Dagesh is currently the
most used piece of software by
Jews in the Diaspora, with more
than 300,000 installed programs
of the previous versions in use
around the world. In the Diaspora,
well over 80% of the schools use
Dagesh daily. Since the new version
came out about two months ago,
4,000 copies have already been
sold.
The program is bundled with a
Jewish clip-art collection of
some 400 items - including biblical
maps and birthday and holiday
crowns you can print out for assembly;
I was amused to see, under the
Kibbutz category, a pair of bearskin-hatted
Buckin-gham Palace guardsmen,
along with turkeys, sheep, and
other animals. Soon, the Clipart
disk will be upgraded to include
some 1,000 pieces of Jewish graphics.
This disk is shared by the full
texts of the Jewish daily and
Shabbat prayer books (Sephardi,
Ashkenazi and Common versions),
Ethics of the Fathers, Shabbat
songs, and the entire Jewish Bible.
There is also a separate disk
with an archive of some 400 full-color
photos of Israel taken by Dagesh
staffer David Shimshon. When you
slip either of these two disks
into your CD-ROM drive, you merely
have to pull down an item from
the menu bar to view the photos
or graphics displayed group by
group and insert any of them into
your text, full-sized or cut down
to a smaller image.
The fourth disk in the package
is WordPoint, another useful Israeli
piece of software that translates
any word on which you rest your
cursor (even from the Internet)
into Hebrew, English, Dutch, French,
German, Italian, and Spanish.
But despite its Jewish look, Dagesh
2000/Pro has attracted an audience
of Moslems and Christians as well.
We received requests from Kuwait
and Jordan as well, because of
the Arabic, English, and even
Hebrew. And Arabs who live in
New York, for example - and get
along well with the local Jews
- are buying Dagesh too.
Diaspora Jewish communities that
speak less-common languages are
also enthusiastic.
Fishman received a letter recently
from Peter Ambrose of Pragues
Jewish Museum, which needed a
word processor that could edit
words or sentences in Hebrew and
then integrate them into a Czech
fluent text.
Ambrose requested something compatible
with the Czech version of Windows
95 or 98, had a phonetic keyboard
for Hebrew letters (such as A
for alef and Q for kuf and X for
tsadi), plus a function for copy
visual to transport Hebrew text
to other word processors or to
QuarkXPress or a comparable graphic
program working with Latin fonts;
copy visual allows you to type
up a file and import it into most
graphics programs, such as Corel
Draw and Adobe Illustrator, and
then format the text to fit around
photos and images.
The TES president was able to
tell Ambrose: Its already on sale;
just order it.
The basic Dagesh 2000/Pro word
processor has a new graphic interface
that will feel very comfortable
to the person familiar with Microsoft
Word, as the toolbars are almost
identical. Click a green-and-blue
globe and you can turn the menu
bar from English to Hebrew and
vice versa.
There are spellcheckers and dictionaries
for seven of the 49 languages.
When you write text in Hebrew,
you can use the AutoNikud feature
to add Hebrew vowels automatically.
GalTech has also included a translation
option that makes it possible
to highlight words within a document
using your mouse and choose from
a vocabulary list that most closely
represents the meaning of the
selected text.
The disk includes more than 200
fonts, and you can easily see
what they look like by placing
the cursor on the name of each
(you dont have to click on on
the name to see the fonts one
at a time). Footnotes can easily
be produced in the right size
and placed in the proper position.
Click the mouse to see how the
text looks before its printed;
you can also zoom in and out of
the text. The program is Internet
ready; it opens and saves the
HTML programming language so you
can publish your text on the World
Wide Web.
If your keyboard has only English
or English/Hebrew keys but you
want to type in Arabic, Dagesh
2000/Pro has onscreen keyboards
you can peck with your mouse to
write text in any of the other
languages - including phonetic
Hebrew. You'll have no difficulty
producing text in languages that
go from right to left (such as
Hebrew and Arabic) and languages
going left to right (most of the
rest) on the same line or in the
same paragraph.
Users can also produce bullets
to make lists, basic graphic tables,
and support for printing even
and odd page numbers on both sides
of the page. Text can be saved
automatically every few minutes
when you request it, and the number
of words appears with the click
of the mouse.
If you have previously produced
documents written using earlier
versions of Dagesh, upon installing
Dagesh 2000/Pro, all of these
will be saved with the new icon
symbols - a brightly colored orange
topped with two green leaves.
In any case, this fine piece of
software, which will travel around
the globe, gives additional meaning
to the saying: Out of Zion goes
forth the Torah.
Copyright (C) 1999 The Jerusalem
Post
ORT/JECC Partnership for Technology
(1/1/1999) wrote:
Dagesh is the established leader
in Hebrew/English word processing
and this latest upgrade maintains
its position at the head of the
pack. As you might expect of a
major upgrade, there are many
new features, plus lots of little
enhancements that makes your work
a little easier. This program
comes with 200 Hebrew fonts, three
CDs of photographs and clipart,
and complete versions of the Tanakh
and siddur. These are valuable
add-ons from teachers who import
texts and graphics into their
documents. The best add-on, however,
is the autonikud option. Highlight
a word (or words) press a few
buttons and you are offered a
list of possible nikud options
for the selected text. Choose
one of the options and the program
automatically inserts the nikud
in place. Seasoned Word users
will find no difficulty orienting
themselves to this program because
the toolbars options are exactly
the same as those found in Word.
Dagesh can easily and accurately
import files from Word, but not
files from DavkaWriter. The programmers
have also included a new “save
as html” option for those who
want to publish their work on
the World Wide Web. Minor nuisances
and improvements need to be addressed.
The Tables option does not allow
the user to modify individual
cells within a table. This is
frustrating for those who are
used to the precision of Word.
Also, the new HTML conversion
option has a minor bug when converting
documents with imported graphics.
The company is working to repair
this bug and will post a patch
on their web site, as soon as
it becomes available. The full
program is expensive, but all
in all, there is a lot to applaud
here.
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