PICSEL SMART OFFICE 1.8 (SIGNED)
smart office is a huge application but picsel has done a good job of
binding everything together in a cohesive user interface. the hub of smart office is its file explorer which neatly displays your files and
folders, along with your recent documents and cloud accounts on dropbox
and google docs. file management options are revealed by long-pressing
on a file; allowing you to delete, copy, or rename. smart office supports the common pinch and stretch to zoom gesture. however, it takes this a step further by zooming out to a multi-page
view which dynamically reorganizes itself to make the best use of the
screen area. transitions between different grid layouts are visually
engaging and give things an extra touch of polish. while viewing a file, a main toolbar can be accessed by tapping at the
top of the screen, which lets you undo actions, save, and close. while
editing, a secondary toolbar appears when you tap at the bottom of the
screen which gives you access to all of the editing tools.
file compatibility on smart office is comprehensive, being able to read
and write word (doc and docx), excel (xls and xlsx), and power point
(ppt and pptx) files. it can also view images and PDF files. for this
review, we hit smart office with a plethora of test files; almost
everything was correctly loaded and shown. however, the test files
included some docx files (created in office 2010) with images that were
not embedded in the file, but loaded from the web – they caused a “file
not supported” error; it should be noted that the version of quick office in the N8’s firmware would open those same files (without
the images). we did also find an old power point file that didn’t load
correctly, but our more recent test files were displayed properly. excel
files had the best compatibility –at least for simple formulate and
charts.
the PDF viewer is really the best part of smart office. its rendering is
the fastest i’ve seen on symbian even outclassing quick office’s PDF
viewer. where the PDF viewer falls down is on documents with several
hundred pages, as it tries to load the whole file into RAM at once,
rather than loading the next few pages from where you’re currently
reading. however, single page documents which are highly complex (e.g. a
city-wide bus map) loaded surprisingly quickly.
the description of text editing above covered most of the word processor
functionality. with version 1.8 of smart office, text editing is all
that can be done. actually, the word processing features are very limited. you can create
bulleted and numbered lists, and adjust text alignment. however, there’s
no ability to insert a table, or adjust paragraph properties; nor is
there a spell checker, word count, or print preview. fortunately, you
can “save as” to PDF, and a pleasing effect is the same cover flow mode
for pages as seen in the PDF viewer.
the spreadsheet sub-application is the most 'feature complete' part of smart office, and feels much more like a desktop application than the
equivalent section of quick office. this extends as far as being able to
resize, split and merge cells – just like desktop spreadsheets.It is
also possible to add and remove extra sheets, just as in a desktop
application. these can then be swiped through in the 3D preview that is
also used in the PDF viewer and word processor.
the presentation editor of smart office is unfortunately less functional
than its counterparts. when creating a new file there are four
templates to choose from. however, there is no way to add a new slide,
or change the background image.
get it now:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsvejdlr0tsldu9/smrtofc.zip
