SoftMaker will start a public beta program for TextMaker 2006 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC in the first week of April 2006. This new release of TextMaker offers a number of improvements, such as:

Unicode support

AutoShapes vector drawing

Tracked changes

Comments as "balloons" like in Word 2003

Load multiple documents simultaneously

Hierarchical bullets and numbering

Significantly improved filters for Microsoft Word, RTF, and HTML

Import filters for OpenDocument and OpenOffice.org

Revamped tables with repeating headers, rotated text etc.

Cross references, bibliography and many "long document" features

Optional large icons on hi-resolution Pocket PCs

The software will come with user interfaces in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, and Hungarian.