Category:	Business
Price:	High
Popularity:	Low
Version String:	7.0.4 (Build 2052)
Release Date:	2024-06-11
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.12
Vendor Name:	RagTime.de Development GmbH
Homepage:	www.ragtime.de

Description:

RagTime – Frame-Oriented Page Layout

RagTime is a unique and professional publishing software for tasks in the fields of graphical design, prepress, office, and database publishing. Where office applications reach their limits and DTP programs are far too complex, RagTime allows you to work more productively. RagTime combines powerful word processing, comprehensive spreadsheets, professional imaging and powerful graphs to a comfortable layout environment for Mac and Windows users. The output on a printer or as a PDF document is always of a high quality. All elements of a page – pictures, tables, text and graphics – keep their fixed positions even if printing on another device. This is an essential for high-level design.

The focus is on a simple and intuitive operation. A formatting palette allows quickly accessing the most frequently used settings and tools. Irrespective of the platform, the output is possible on local printers, as a PostScript or PDF document, including transparency support for pictures, text, tables and other components, or as HTML. In addition, common exchanging formats such as EPS, RTF, JPEG, etc. are available.

The different components – word processing, spreadsheets, pictures, graphs, etc. – are positioned on the page in individual frames, accurate to the millimeter. The frames, including their content, can be rotated, scaled and skewed. RagTime components, e.g. pictures can also be placed in the text flow or in table cells. Editing objects can be done either directly in the layout component on the document page or separately, in a dedicated editing window. Calculation functions work in tables, text, graphs and even in the control elements of interactive documents and forms. The integrated multilingual spell checking and hyphenation functions work in text, tables, graphs, and other RagTime components.

A central inventory manages all components used in the document, e.g. pictures, text, spread sheets, layouts as well as fonts, value formats and colors. Folders and individual names for all components increase the clarity and support multiple usage of documents. Frequently used documents and forms are directly available in the Foyer, so there is no need for cumbersome searches on the hard disk.


Feature List: More than 400 Functions

Collecting, editing, designing and distributing data of all kinds plays an important role in almost every industry, in enterprises and institutions of all sizes, and can require a significant amount of working hours.

• Text is designed as a circular, protocol, memo or letter
• Offers, invoices time sheets combine figures and some text, and contain calculations that should be executed as automatically as possible
• Product flyers, brochures, catalogs and product lists often include text, images and prices
• Figures and calculations appear as graphs or tables in statistics, analyses and many other document types

These different data types should be designed as appealing as possible, to be distributed in various forms:

• Printed on office color laser or inkjet printers
• For wide circulations and quality requirements, printed digitally or off-set in a print house
• As PDF documents for use in the paperless office
• As HTML documents for use on the Internet or Intranet
• As illustrated slideshow within a presentation

RagTime includes about 400 spreadsheet functions (of which 150 are new in RagTime 6.5) for text and page layout, for the evaluation and preparation of figures of all kinds, for graphs, drawings and images, and of course for all the various output methods. In addition, it offers buttons and drop-down menus for interactive documents.

RagTime allows you to generate complex documents of completely different content types. In doing so, RagTime always offers those tools that you will need to edit or adjust the corresponding content. How this works in detail is described on the following pages, categorized for each field of application.