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\"textilus<\/a><\/p>\n

Textilus Pro<\/a>\u00a0is the word processing app that Mount de Sales is rolling out campus wide for use on the iPads. It has all of the standard word processing features needed in the 21st century, talks with several different cloud services [iCloud, Drive, Box, etc], and enables creation of MLA style documents.<\/p>\n

Here is an overview of the features in Textilus Pro:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2713 Easy to Use, Stay Organized<\/p>\n

\u2713 Powerful yet very easy to use rich-text word processor for iPad<\/p>\n

\u2713 Create, edit and share your documents effortlessly. No settings. No cluttered interface<\/p>\n

\u2713 Document Folders: Drag&Drop to create. Use different color covers for different projects<\/p>\n

\u2713 MagicCursor: Quickly move around the cursor and select text<\/p>\n

\u2713 Typewriter (Focus) mode. Distraction-Free mode that keeps only the paragraph you\u2019re typing at the center of the screen, letting you focus on what you\u2019re writing<\/p>\n

\u2713 Create and edit documents for Microsoft Word, Open Office, Scrivener, Nisus Writer, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Insert photos, comments, footnotes, charts, signatures and drawings in your documents. Compose sketches<\/p>\n

\u2713 Sign your documents realistically with your finger<\/p>\n

\u2713 Export and mail your work as PDF , RTF , RTFD , TXT, PNG , Markdown and HTML<\/p>\n

\u2713 Sync your documents with Dropbox , Google Drive, Box, iCloud , Scrivener or Evernote<\/p>\n

\u2713 Text to Speech and Voice Dictation support<\/p>\n

\u2713 Over 32 supported languages including Japanese , Chinese , Arabic , Hebrew<\/p>\n

Powerful RTF Rich-Text Engine<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2713 Rich-text formatting: Bold, italic, underline, highlight, subscript\/superscript, alignment, line spacing, first-line indent, type size, page breaks, pre-defined styles, text and paper color, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Insert inline photos, charts and drawings in your documents. Compose sketches.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Over 60 high quality (Retina ready) fonts included. Insert special symbols, math symbols, date, current GPS location, pictographs and web links in your documents<\/p>\n

\u2713 Extra keyboard row with direct access to styling and punctuation functions. Quick keys for tab, forward delete, up, down, left, right, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Easily set custom 25 toolbar buttons to your commonly-used keys, special symbols, text snippets or hard to reach characters<\/p>\n

\u2713 Multi-language: Over 32 languages supported including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew<\/p>\n

\u2713 Markdown support<\/p>\n

Essential Writing Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2713 Find and replace: Quickly search within a document, and it gives you the option to replace those terms with another<\/p>\n

\u2713 Instant text statistics and counters: characters, words, reading time, sentences, average word length<\/p>\n

\u2713 Direct search on Google , Wikipedia , Dictionary , Thesaurus, etc. So finding external online information, synonyms and related words is quick and easy<\/p>\n

\u2713 Security Passcode: Only you will be allowed to open documents in your iPad<\/p>\n

\u2713 Built-in Text to Speech will read aloud your documents and selected text in more than 30 languages (No Internet connection needed)<\/p>\n

\u2713 Create backup snapshots of your documents anytime<\/p>\n

PC\/MAC Compatible<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2713 Universal RTF based document file format (Rich Text Format)<\/p>\n

\u2713 Textilus standard RTF documents are compatible with hundreds of word processors and text editors: Apple Pages, MS Word, Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Nisus Writer, Textedit, Wordpad, Scrivener, Evernote, Mail, Pages, Word, Notes, iA Writer, Bean, Abiword, QuickOffice, TextMaker, Documents To Go, Jarte, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Export your documents to RTF , RTFD , PDF , Plain text, PNG and HTML<\/p>\n

Auto-Syncing with iCloud , Dropbox , Google Drive, Box, Scrivener and Evernote<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2713 Includes automated iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and Scrivener Syncing, Evernote posting and iTunes File Sharing<\/p>\n

\u2713 Open-in email attachments (MS Word or RTF documents). Send multiple documents in the same email<\/p>\n

\u2713 Open-in your Textilus documents with other apps<\/p>\n

New and powerful PDF document Reader & Processor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2713 Textilus PDF support allows you to read, annotate, edit, fill out forms, sign, insert bookmarks, comments, text, images and stamps, validate Digital Signatures and even markup with different highlights and handwriting in your PDF documents, books, papers, journals, magazines, etc. Now you can create PDF documents right on your iPad too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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