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Dagesh Pro IV Competitive Upgrade
Dagesh Pro IV Competitive Upgrade
Age Level: 10-Adult
Media: CD-ROM
Version: Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP
See also:
Dagesh Pro IV PLUS Siddur & Tanach
Dagesh Pro IV Upgrade
ISBN: 1-931711-08-9
NOTE: For current owners of Qtext and
DavkaWriter. Proof of Ownership
required.
About - Dagesh Pro IV Competitive
Upgrade
The best Hebrew-English Wordprocessor
just got (MUCH) better! 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 Competitive
Upgrade |
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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...
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)
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 |
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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 |
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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...
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System Features
Compatible with
Windows 98/2000/ME/NT/XP... Auto
Save... User Manual... Online
Built In Windows Help... Easy to
use Tool Tips... |
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Reviews - Dagesh
Pro IV Competitive Upgrade
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 prayerbooks (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 Dagesh 2000/Pro package sold
here comes with a clearly
written instruction manual,
Hebrew at one end of the book
and English at the other. The
program marketed abroad comes
with a 132-page English-language
manual. In any case, there is a
very good on-disk help menu if
youre the type who doesnt like
to read printed instruction
booklets and prefers to look up
specific topics electronically.
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. Youll 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.
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 program
automatically renames the
graphics within the HTML code.
In order to see the graphics,
users need to edit the Dagesh
generated HTML code to reflect
the original graphic file name.
A far more serious problem
remains with printing.
Originally, the program did not
allow the user to view landscape
mode properly. Part of the page
was cut off. That bug was fixed
with a patch made available on
the TES site. However, the
program still does not allow the
user to switch between portrait
and landscape mode for printing
purposes in a single document
(it views fine, but prints
incorrectly). The company is
working to repair this bug and
will post a patch on their web
site, as soon as it becomes
available.
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150 Professionally Designed -
Original Hebrew True Type Fonts
Dagesh Xtras - Templates Xtras
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