Long before the days of the Apple Language Kits that supported Hebrew and Arabic with their right to left text, Nisus Writer Classic offered a style that would display text in esreveR. Open a Nisus Writer Classic Document with the “esreveR” style ☞ It is extremely unlikely (perhaps impossible) that a non-Mac encoding was used after all, you created the old document using Nisus Writer Classic which is a Mac-encoded file. ► Choose the appropriate encoding from the Encoding pop-up menu in the Open dialog.įor example, if you know that your document is primarily Japanese text, choose Japanese encoding. You can override whatever choice Nisus Writer Pro might make by choosing the encoding from the Pop-up menu in the Open dialog. However, if the font is unknown, then Nisus Writer Pro needs to make a choice. If that font is known to Nisus Writer Pro, it will always use the encoding associated with that font. Open Multilingual Nisus Writer Classic Files in Nisus Writer ProĮvery individual bit of text in a Nisus Writer Classic file has a font (with a particular character encoding) associated with it. Those people who have used Nisus Writer Classic will need to bring their files into Nisus Writer Pro.Īmazingly enough, even as this version of Nisus Writer Pro was reaching its final “ßeta” tests, people continue to ask how they can get and use Nisus Writer Classic. It uses the wings of Hermes’ cap as if they are flames emerging from a pen, or giving wing to your thoughts as they appear on the computer screen.Ĭoncurrent with the release of Nisus Writer Pro, all new Macintosh computers sold by Apple no longer support the Classic environment.
The current icon continues to minimize the elements from the original. In the original Nisus Writer Startup screen he held a pen instead of the caduceus and had a floppy disk at his right elbow with pin feed paper flowing out behind him. Here are some of the images used for the splash screens of those early versions.įigure 558 Early versions of “The Nisus Man” imageįigure 559 macOS versions of “The Nisus Man” imageĮarly versions of the icon show interpretations of Hermes a Greek god who served as the herald and messenger of other gods, identified by the Romans with Mercury and generally pictured with winged hat, carrying a caduceus (a winged staff with two serpents) he was also the god of science, eloquence, and cunning. It truly was amazing with features that all current word processors and the macOS have finally begun to implement, from unlimited undos to multipart selections and multiple (editable) Clipboards. (then under the name Paragon Concepts Inc.) released the first version of Nisus (The Amazing Word Processor). From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Pro