As the screenshot suggests, three versions of the American Declaration of Independence are fascinating to read this way, without the hypertext clicking about of the place we got them from. We dropped Jefferson’s alpha into TextFlow as an “original Word document” that he really wrote with a feather, and then the committee beta and the 1.0 Congress release for comparison — although their writers weren’t signed up with TextFlow. As a user, you can compare and work with your collaborators’ writing even if they haven’t heard of it.

JeffersonDraft.doc
CommitteeDraft.doc
FinalDeclaration.doc

Most of our beta users first signed up when you had an aching load of conflicting documents: but before the beta release came, you’d handled those particular files with a serial word processor.  Now it’s here, you don’t want to start looking for those files that caused the trouble.

Many of you have been asking for some ‘get started’ sets, to explore what TextFlow can do, and to be ready when your next wave of parallel editing hits.  Here are the four word files used for the Test drive on our website. We will post some more examples from  ”real life” users the next few days.

documentA.doc
documentB.doc
documentC.doc
documentD.doc

The last couple of weeks have been focused on bug fixes and improving Word conversion. As a bonus, loading and displaying Word files has become faster. 

TextFlow will automatically detect and prompt you to install this new release next time you run it.

In the coming week we are solving some situations where TextFlow gets muddled over several very similar suggestions from different people.