Whizfolders Deluxe

Posted by Graham Rhind
Jul 12, 2007 at 03:29 PM

Derek Cornish wrote:
But there seems to be some question hanging over the long-term future of the Pro
>version. Maybe this is a misleading impression, though.

Whizfolders Deluxe is version 6 (6.0.8. to be accurate), and I’ve never had any other impression than that Deluxe is an upgrade of 5.x (Pro), and renamed for whatever marketing reasons Sanjay might have. I suppose Sanjay might have decided to keep a dual pricing policy, allowing the older, simpler version to be sold at the lower price, but I would be very surprised if he continued to develop it in a different direction. A recent e-mail to users suggests that he’s thinking of version 7 already.

>“Export to MS Word Outline RTF:
>On the menu “Tools–Export selected topics,” a new menu item appears that allows you to
>export the RTF in a Word Outline format. You need to open the resulting file in
>Microsoft Word to appreciate how this feature works.”

Whizfolders is superb in its export options - it even allows me to print my 1000+ page book in exactly the right format, with my choice of headers, footers, page numbers, table of contents, page breaks and so on, with just a few clicks in the preferences section. That, above all, was what made me buy it in the first place.

>Single-pane editing in a WF editor window is
>a different matter - and something that many users might also like to see implemented.
>I noticed that it is WF’s stated intention to keep using standard MS richtext editors
>(now at RichEdit4). If RE4 is anything like earlier editions, there is no built-in
>outlining facility. Do you know if the WF people have any plans to develop single-pane
>outlining? Since they have managed the new Tables support using a different
>editor-control and interfacing it with the new WF RT4 editor - see the blog comments:
>http://whizfolders.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/01/table-tool/ - could they
>not do the same for single-pane outlining?

I’ve never tried single-pane outlining, and had to test it in Word to see what it was. Whizfolders can certainly manager standard bullet pointing/indentation etc., but not collapsable structures/outlines as in Word. Sanjay is very keen to provide what the users want and, if you e-mail him at support(((at)))whizfolders.com with your question and suggestion, he’ll certainly respond and may put it on his list. As I mentioned, many developers are very fixed in what they envisage for their products, and what I like about Sanjay is his willingness to put his users’ ideas into practice.

Graham