Tomahawk PDF
Native Winds of Montana makes a PDF creation tool called Tomahawk PDF+ and Tomahawk PDFgold
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[edit] Overview
Tomahawk PDF state of the art word processing with advanced PDF file creation abilities. Native editing of richtext, text, xml and our own special format files. Includes multi-language support, Thumbnail Wizard, tab stops, live spell checking, improved ruler, automatic url detection as you type, N-Up printing.
PDF+ is a free version and PDFgold is the deluxe version. Tomahawk PDF+ runs on all Windows systems from Win9x up to Win7 and now Tomahawk PDF+ also runs on Linux systems using Wine 0.9.19! It can import RTF, HTML, XLS, and TXT files as well as its internal format.
[edit] Features
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Feature Comparison |
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Features |
Tomahawk PDF Plus |
Tomahawk Gold |
| Multi-language support for 15 languages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Tables - Tomahawk supports tables and tables nested inside of other tables. You can set the border style, background color (in both tables and cells), border style, embed images, cell alignment, etc. Insert or delete rows and columns into existing tables. Merge and split cells |
Yes |
Yes |
| Table Headers - Table header row(s) can be set to repeat on subsequent pages during printouts or exporting to PDF for large tables. |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in Native Support - Word 2007 files (*.docx, *.dotx), OpenOffice files (*.odt, *.sxw), WordPerfect files (*.wpd),PalmOS Database (*.pdb) and Aportise files (*.prc) |
No |
Yes |
| Mail Merge |
No |
Yes |
| Form Controls |
No |
Yes |
| Open PDF Files |
No |
Yes |
| Embed OLE controls directly inside your Tomahawk documents. |
No |
Yes |
| N-Up printing option - print 1-up, 2-up, 4-up or 2-up booklet and N-Up to PDF conversion option. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Background images - Set a background image for your document. Images can be displayed as tiled, normal, or stretched. Tables can have their own background image. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Bullets - Tomahawk supports several levels of bullets, including the ability to use images as bullets. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Import - Import files in rtf, text, html, MS Word®. |
Limited |
Yes |
| Design and insert charts as images. |
No |
Yes |
| Quick Format Painter - Save time and effort: Apply advanced formatting instantly. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Bookmark Anchor support |
No |
Yes |
| Automatically create 'Table of Contents' from internal bookmarks. |
No |
Yes |
| Password protect your files when saved in CTD format. |
No |
Yes |
| Load and Save in our new compressed file format (ctd). |
No |
Yes |
| Load and Save in XML file format. |
No |
Yes |
| Export - rtf, txt, html, and other formats depending on converters installed. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Spell check - 26 dictionaries available |
Yes |
Yes |
| Thesaurus - 2 available |
Yes |
Yes |
| Default Font - Set default font for new documents |
No |
Yes |
| Adjust top and bottom margins in the editor area |
No |
Yes |
| Set default display measurements - inches or millimeters. |
No |
Yes |
| Excel spreadsheet support - Open, view, edit, create new, format, print, print preview, page layout, convert to PDF, and Save. Full support for most common formulas. Freeware version does not allow saving or creating new spreadsheets. Note - Does not support embedded objects or macros. |
Limited |
Yes |
| Import and Embed tables directly from from a delimited file. Csv, Tab, etc. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Search & Replace |
Yes |
Yes |
| Drag & drop - inserting for supported files and images. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Advanced font - Supports character spacing, offset and horizontal scaling. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Display Word and Character count for current document |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Hyperlinks support. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Remove Hyperlinks with a single button click. |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded internal jump links to a specific page in pdf files. |
No |
Yes |
| Network compliant |
No |
Yes |
| Commercial usage |
No |
Yes |
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PDF Manipulation |
Tomahawk PDF Plus |
Tomahawk Gold |
| Extract and Import PDF text and images |
Yes |
Yes |
| Set the Title, Author, Subject and Keywords fields |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ability to prevent printing, copying and changing the structure. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Disable Hyperlinks |
No |
Yes |
| Hyperlinked Bookmark Anchor navigation |
No |
Yes |
| Encrypt PDF files - password protect your files. | Yes |
Yes |
| Embed Fonts |
Yes |
Yes |
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