Customer Reviews

Penpower Chinese Expert (Writing Pad Edition)

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Writing pad can use to learn Chinese character. Good tool for learner. This software shows every stroke and practice with writing pad. We can adjust speed of writing character and follow it. Not only imitate how to write but also recognize what you write. More important, this writing pad also can use in other software such as word and MSN. We use that to input Chinese character. The only thing I have to complain is we cannot input pce file to ms-word.

Bought this for my wife so she could chat in Chinese to her friends overseas. Works great and so far no problems with Windows 7. We bought this in Vancouver for $50. Other than the box, it looks exactly the same.

A whole lot of problems with this program on 64 bit windows 7 home premium. The penpower jr program constantly crashes and when opened, prevents other programs from running like MS word 2003, 2007, Google Chrome etc. Seems to only work well with word pad. Not surprising since word pad is a 32-bit app and penpower jr is actually just a 32-bit app. Have updated to the Nov 2010 update but its of no help.
Maybe it will work better on windows 7 32bit. Don't know but for my configuration, its a horror.

update: 12/27/2010. My problem still exist but I bump this up by 1 star. Whatever the problem may be, the vendor has been extremely helpful in trying to get this resolved. I emailed them and they actually called me within a few hours. They have been emailing/calling me frequently trying to help me resolved this. While the problem persist, I am impressed by their customer service.