Remember, you can get it free until the end of the year. The checkout process was easy, and it took me longer to download than it did to check out. Download was about 25MB. Once I installed it, it was up and running in a few seconds. Navigation is available by chapter on the sidebar, or you can do a search. The NASB text is displayable in either verse or paragraph format very nice, since this is hard to find , while the UBS text is verse only. Like other higher end Bible software, this one comes with the ability to link texts, save desktops, and a right-click will give you the option to copy verse, chapter, or selection.
But there aren't many options for the format of the text itself. For instance, you can't leave out verse numbers or the headings. The text window has an optional display of footnotes and cross references at the right or bottom of the screen.
Only one of those items can be shown in a position; the footnotes on the side aren't legible, so realistically, the setup has to be cross references on the side and footnotes on the bottom. Cross references have popups, or you can click through to them. Removing the footnote and cross reference panes removed them from the text as well. When displayed as paragraphs, the search took you to the nearest paragraph.
The Greek text was the biggest disappointment. In fact, the font from Pradis and the Mounce font use the same transliteration scheme. But I expect more from the "big guns. Searching Searching is implemented well. Not much flash, but gets the job done nicely. Hitting the Search button brings up a simple window asking for the search string and the search range. The string can be a list of one or more words, or you can click on the Search Assistant button to open a advanced dialog box where you can specificy phrases, words, exclusions, and so on.
Each field where you can enter a word has a small [Add Words] button, which gives you the opportunity to pull words from a dictionary list of English or Hebrew words to ensure correct spelling. The search range field is very flexible as well. You can leave it blank to search the entire Bible, or you can search on predetermined sets, such as the New Testament, the Pentateuch, the Epistles, etc.
Or you can combine your own set of predefined Bible books and save them for future use. The search window also has an Advanced Tab not to be confused with the advanced search options you get with the Search Assistant that gives you some increased search functionality, like matching case, or searching in all your books.
Right-clicking on any word in any text gives you the option of doing a Quick Search or a regular Search. The Quick Search will simply do a search on the word with all the default options. The regular Search will bring up the Search window, as previously described, with the word in question pre-loaded in the search box. Executing the search will show the results as a sidebar in the current Bible pane, very similar to a table of contents.
Simply click on the passage in the result list and the Bible passage will jump to that verse. If you did a search on all books, each book will have its own result set to scroll through, which can be both a blessing and a curse.
There is also a confusing "Find" textbox on the toolbar, and it's functionality appears to overlap a Quick Search. It will jump to a particular location in the selected book. However, don't enter a verse in the Find box, it won't work. You have to use the Go To box on the toolbar for that. Yes it is a bit confusing. Resources The Pradis library is growing, but still contains the fewest library resources amongst the "big guns" in the Bible software arena.
The Pradis website states over resources titles are available, but I actually counted Yes, is greater than , but usually software packages like to tout every single library resource available, so I'm sure the website just hasn't caught up yet. Again, this is part of the problem with a publisher-created product.
Shame on you, Zondervan. One of the biggest reasons for owning Pradis 6. So in the end, Pradis gets a downtick for being a publisher-created software product that limits its resource potential, but gets an uptick for reasonably-priced resources, and of course, the only place to obtain the NIV Application Commentary.
Extensibility For all the work that went into improving Pradis for version 6. You can create a note for a verse. In other words, hitting the [Create Note] button will fire up Word with a pre-defined filename that obviously links the file to the verse.
You enter your note in Word which gives you some nice editing capabilities, of course , but when you are done the notes stay in external files. In other words, you cannot search on them, and you can not see your notes inside Pradis; there is simply an icon next to the verse in question showing that a note is available.
Remember when I said it was often hard to figure out just what verse you are on? This situation caused significant frustration when attempting to create a note. I successfully created a note for 1 John I then clicked on 1 John and created another note, but it was still linked to verse 9. I did it over and over with the same result.
I finally had to enter 1 John into the Go To box, which then jumped to verse 10, from where I could now enter notes. There is no method that allows you to create your own modules inside Pradis. Support Technical support is provided via phone and email. An email question to Zondervan was answered in a fairly prompt timeframe, less than two business days. The response was friendly, and he answered two out of my three questions. His attempted answer of my third question showed I didn't clearly articulate the interface nuance I was asking about.
Zondervan does not promote any forums or user groups that I could find, nor could I find any unofficial groups though I found an old Yahoo group for Pradis with only 9 members.
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