Putting it all together, The services menu, Using linkback – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual
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Putting It All Together
Nisus Writer Pro contains the tools for composing documents of any length. You may already use
many of Nisus Writer Pro’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 Pro documentation
offers you suggestions on how to integrate the capabilities of Nisus Writer Pro to get the most out of
it.
Handling Correspondence” outlines the ways Nisus Writer Pro can help you create letters, FAXes
and forms and includes tips for using Nisus Writer Pro as an off-line e-mail editor.
Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of Connected Applications
Nisus Writer Pro and the Internet
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Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of Connected
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The Services Menu
Because Nisus Writer Pro is a Cocoa application it can use all the tools of the menu Nisus Writer
Pro > Services. 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.
Nisus Writer Pro adds a command to the Services menu that you can use in any other application
that supports Services: New Document With Selection. Whenever you select text in another
application you can choose this command to create a new Nisus Writer Pro document.
Using LinkBack
In addition to these Services, Nisus Writer Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro, to integrate more tightly with one
another.
Compare LinkBack with the Link to File capabilities explained in “Importing Images” on page 149.