i'm voting essential for the broader principle at stake here: there are a good deal of efficiencies to be gained through using system-wide resources such as this, (of which spellchecking is a drop in the ocean). sure it means that graphisoft have to really think about supporting two platforms rather than just knock the mac version out with the minimum of effort - as it appears they do.
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