Jeff said:
I downloaded Ecco Pro last night. It's really great! Just what I was
looking for, with one little exception, but I can work around it.
I've exported my data from Day Timer (it really has to go!) and seems
to work just fine after import into Ecco. There are so many little
corners to the program, and I'm still working out some of the
wrinkles. I do recommend folks give it a try.
Yup.
It's one of those onion-like programs with layers under layers. I've
been using it steadily for ten years, and there are still features that
I haven't learned (I was just jogged here to get into a new function I
hadn't used before -- calling up IrfanView directly from inside ECCO.
One thing I should mention, a problem: It is difficult to figure out how
to control printing defaults. This wasn't properly covered in the
manual, and it isn't as logical as it should have been. And I've yet to
be able to change the default document print format to what I want.
Print Preview is a function inside the main print routine (the program
was put together before firm Windows protocols were widely accepted). I
can always get what I want to come out of the printer; it used to be a
slog for me.
My only caution would be that if you think you might want to transfer
your data out of ECCO into a different program, don't get deeply into
the outlining ability (ECCO permits almost unlimited outline levels in
_any_ of its modes, not just the official "outline" modes.
There is a de-facto file size limit. It's pretty big. I haven't hit it yet.
And finally, I have no idea what ECCO stands for. I once asked someone
at Netmanage, when the program was "live." They didn't know. And they'd
bought it -- when the publisher doesn't know the name of their own
product, who does?
Richard
