Comparison between LEAP Office 2000 and ISM Office 2000 / V5

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Feature
LEAP Office
ISM Office 2000 / V5
1 Independent Word-processor for Indian languages under Windows
Yes
No
2 Indian language interface for Windows applications like MS-Office,Star Office, Open Office, Lotus SmartSuite, Page Maker, Corel Draw, Quark express etc.
Yes
Yes

3

 Uniform solution for Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, NT & Novell Netware
Yes
Yes

4

 Browser Support for direct data entry **
No
Yes

5

 Operating  Standards:- Supports ISCII as well as Unicode. Although our softwares are Unicode complaint, we suggest users to use ISCII standard.
Yes
Yes

6

 Scripts supported:- Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit), Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil,Telugu.
Yes
Yes

7

 Fonts Standard Support:- Supports True type and ATM / Type 1 fonts. The various font types available are Monolingual, Monolingual Web, Bilingual and Bilingual Web. Supports Web fonts as well which are designed specifically for displaying Indian languages properly in the browser.
Only True Type (Monolingual / Bilingual) fonts supported.
Yes. Supports all font types

8

 Rich collection of type face available for all languages.
No
Yes

9

 Supports different Keyboard Layout for Indian script typing (Inscript, Phonetic English, Typewriter and other custom layouts)

Yes, Supports Inscript, Phonetic English and Typewriter layouts
Yes

10

 Onscreen Keyboard layout
Yes
Yes

11

 User Configurable keyboard
No
Yes

12

 Typing using Onscreen Keyboard for windows based applications
No
Yes

13

 Phonetic typing in Indian language using English (QWERTY) keyboard.
Yes
Yes

14

 Mail Merge
No
Yes. Available as Macro Utility in MS-Word, Star Office, Open Office

15

 Sorting
No
Yes. Available as Macro Utility in Excel

16

 Find Replace in Indian language data
Yes
Yes

17

 Online Translation dictionary
Yes
Yes

18

 Synonym dictionary
Yes
No

19

 Spell checking in Indian languages
Available for the following languages (Hindi ,Marathi, Gujarati)
Available for the following languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati)

20

 Keyboard shortcuts (use of abbreviations to type complete words/phrases).
Yes
Yes

21

 Import files from popular DOS based bi-lingual solutions like GIST card, ALP, Shabdratna,Akshar, etc.
No
Yes

22

 Import files prepared in Akshar / Shreelipi / Akruti / Winkey / APS / Bhasha Bharati / Varun / Su Windows
No
Language specific converters are available. The input can be either text or a file.

23

 Export files to RTF, HTML,TXT for all windows based applications being used
Yes
Yes

24

 Bilingual fonts
Yes
Yes

25

 Web Fonts support, for error free content on the WEB
No
Yes

26

 Dynamic Fonts
No
Yes

27

 Matching English fonts and fonts with international numerals.
Yes
Yes

28

 Pre-design Templates like letter heads / forms and commonly and frequently used letters
Yes
Depends on the software being used

29

 Insert files from popular applications of Windows as objects (OLE)
Yes
No

30

 Immediate visual indication of absurd character sequences in any Indian script ( Matra validation)
Yes
Yes

31

 Unicode Compatibility
File can be saved as Unicode file
File can be converted to Unicode format

32

 Support for all Indian languages/scripts
Yes
Yes

33

 Media
CDROM
CDROM

34

 Software Protection System
CD locking
Hardware lock for ISM to avoid software piracy

35

 Standalone and Network versions
Yes
Yes

** Support provided in ISM V5 only