Info for egyptologists

Vector Office 2009 is more than only a vector graphics editor. It is a professional hieroglyphic text processing software for egyptologists.

Vector Office is very different from WinGlyph or even PerfectGlyph. First of all, Vector Office combines both glyph-editor and text processing in one single application. Any document (or sign) can be saved as a library item. Due to this, the user can save single signs in his libraries as well as bigger text modules he often uses in his documents ( ’Offering wine’-phrase for example). Additionally the user can manipulate any sign within a document directly by opening the ‘Edit mode’. This application design offers the best flexibility for libraries and documents. Of course it is also possible to add complete scenes like religious offering scenes including kings and gods in a document and combine them with the hieroglyphic texts belonging to the appropriate scene. The user can add new hieroglyphs to the existing library as well as create complete new libraries (Demotic or hieratic for example...?).

• Vector Office 2008 is shipped with a complete hieroglyphic sign library containing approx. 7000 hieroglyphs. This file can be found in the applications path (Hieroglyphs.3dl). The cartouches can be found under the category ‘synonyms’. Watch this movie to get a first impression...

• The well known text-code editor of WinGlyph is reduced to the small ‘search for’-textbox at the library panel where the user selects the hieroglyphs directly to insert them into the document by double clicking on a specific hieroglyph and move the mouse to the desired position within the document. From here the user can scale, rotate, mirror or move the hieroglyphs directly with the mouse.

• The hatching of hieroglyphs is now more flexible than ever before:

• Last but not least the synonym list known from WinGlyph and PerfectGlyph is now obsolete, because any sign can be saved in the library under different names. For example - save the sign O49 (njwt) a second time under a synonym like 'city' if it is easier for you to remind.