The entire Edit->Paste menu in Contribute just stayed disabled. I pulled the above image in to Preview and resized it, did a select all and… nothing. For some reason, and this is a shame as it is a feature I use all the time, but I can’t copy and paste images for some reason. Actually it may have more options than Windows Live Writer! At the same time though, I’ve run in to a couple of limitations. First of all, Contribute certainly has more imaging options than MarsEdit. The rest of this post is a bit of a playground for testing Contibute out. I need to confirm that if I buy a seat I can use it under either operating system ( I am not buying it twice! ), but if I can, have a familiar editing environment on either platform is a big plus to me. One immediately appealing feature of Contribute is that it is available cross-platform. Now, I just need to decide if Contribute is an improvement! Fortunately, like MarsEdit, it comes with a 30 day trial. That said, I have no qualms about paying for software, it’s what I do for a living after all, and I spend so much time in my blog editor, that I will gladly pay that price if the experience is an improvement. Adobe Contribute on the other hand is 100$. MarsEdit is 40$ ( plus they charge for updates ), Windows Live Writer is free, which is hard to compete with. Then I discovered Adobe Contribute, which apparently started life as Macromedia Contribute.įirst things first, Contribute is expensive compared to the other two products. There are a couple other commercial options such as Blogo and Ecto, but let’s just say their online presence just doesn’t fill me with a ton of optimism. So I figured it was either MarsEdit ( which I may still buy ) or reboot to use Windows Live Writer ( not a great option ). There are a couple open source cross-platform options, but they all seem pretty much terrible. If it had good source code pasting options and better image formatting, I would have purchased already.Īt the end of the day, I was resigning myself to having to work in Windows only, which is certainly unfortunate. It’s a great little product, but the limitations make me a bit hesitant to pull the trigger. None of those is a deal breaker, but all of them make the experience slightly worse than Live Writer, to the point when I needed to do code related blogs, I rebooted in to Windows to use Live Writer. The picture formatting tools are primitive to nonexistent, it’s hard to format source code ( something of key importance to me ), it didn’t do site preview all that well ( although frankly, neither did Live Writer, at least with my site ) and it didn’t support tags. On the other hand, some things were a bit unwieldy too. It was like when you write with a quality pen, the actual experience itself is just better. It was a very pleasant writing experience, if that makes any sense. It came with a 30 day trial and my final verdict was a bit mixed. A month ago I started looking for a Mac based alternative to the excellent Windows Live Writer and thought I may have found one in the form of MarsEdit.
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