Putting it all together, The services menu, Using linkback – Nisus Writer Express User Manual
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Putting It All Together
Nisus Writer Express contains the tools for composing documents of any length. You may already
use many of Nisus Writer Express’s practical, time saving tools such as the spelling checker, Menu
Keys, Drag and Drop, Unlimited Undos, to name a few. This part of the Nisus Writer Express
documentation offers you suggestions on how to integrate the capabilities of Nisus Writer Express
to get the most out of it.
Handling Correspondence” outlines the ways Nisus Writer Express can help you create letters,
FAXes and forms and includes tips for using Nisus Writer Express as an off-line e-mail editor.
Nisus Writer Express and the Community of Connected Applications
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The Services menu
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Using LinkBack
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Nisus Writer Express and the World Wide Web
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Handling Communications
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Nisus Writer Express and the Community of Connected
Applications
The Services menu
Because Nisus Writer Express is a Cocoa application it can use all the tools of the Services
submenu of the Nisus Writer Express menu. These are commands made available by other
applications. Among these are
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Fontbook Create Collection From Text and Create Font Library From Text
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Grab Screen; Selection; Timed Screen
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Look Up in Dictionary (Tiger and Leopard only)
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Mail Send Selection, Send To
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Make New Sticky Note
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Open URL
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Search with Google
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Speech Start Speaking Text, Stop Speaking
Many other commands are made available by other applications that you can add to your System.
Using LinkBack
In addition to these Services, Nisus Writer Express enables you to include content from other
applications and then edit that content again with just a double-click.
The LinkBack Framework is an open framework that brings editable objects to Mac OS X. Using
LinkBack-enabled applications, you can paste content created in other applications into a Nisus
Writer Express document and later edit or update the content from the original application. When
activated, content can be updated automatically by the provider application or the provider
application can display the content for the user to edit. Any changes automatically replace the
original embedded content.
By offering this framework as an open-source project, Nisus Software Inc. hopes to enable a wide
variety of Cocoa-based applications, including Nisus Writer Express, to integrate more tightly with
one another.
What applications support LinkBack
LinkBack is included in a number of fine applications. You can learn the current state of
development at:
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Goals and non-goals
The goals of the LinkBack framework are
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To enable applications to share data with one another, maintaining a link to the originating
application so that you can edit the data or have it refreshed.