plain text editor 3.2
PlaintextPaste 0.2
PlaintextPaste provides users with an easy-to-use SparkPlugin which adds a Paste Plain Text item to the Edit menu more>>
PlaintextPaste 0.2 provides users with an easy-to-use SparkPlugin which adds a "Paste Plain Text" item to the Edit menu of all Cocoa applications. Normally the Paste menu item will preserve all colors, styles, fonts and formatting of so-called "rich text." However, sometimes, you don't want all this formatting, especially when copying text from the web. Thus, "Paste Plain Text."
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Haxial TextEdit 1.7
Text editor with a find and replace function. more>>
It also includes a Find/Replace function, and a menu for quick access to your favorite documents. It can also count the number of occurrences of a piece of text in a file, and alphabetically sort lines of text.
It includes a "Favorites" menu allows quick access to your favorite documents. It can scroll through large files very quickly.
Enhancements:
- Added option to encrypt documents with a password (see File menu).
- New "Extract Lines" command in Tools menu extracts every hard line in the selected text (or all if no selection) that contains the specified text, into a new document
- New "Insert Date/Time" command in Tools menu inserts the current date/time into the document at the selection position, using the formatting options that you specify
- Minor bug fixes
SafEEditor 1.0.3
SafEEditor - Text editor for editing perl and other CGI scripts more>>
SafEEditor is a free, barebones plain text editor for editing perl and other CGI scripts.
In addition to Unix line termination, UTF-8 character encoding is the default character encoding method used by SafEEditor, making it possible for non-ASCII compatible text to be safely contained within an ASCII compatible format.
Plain Clip 2.1
Removes text formatting from clipboard contents. more>>
Plain Clip 2.1 has very high efficiency and speed to remove formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It's designed as a faceless application (no GUI), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey application such as "Spark" or "iKey".
Soft-Wrap Text (Entourage) 1.0
Soft-Wrap Text (Entourage) - Soft-wrap the text of messages more>>
All messages acted upon by the script, whether originally received messages or converted ones, will have an Edit icon in the message pane when they are viewed for the first time following the scripts action, and which cannot be removed.
You can select as many messages as you wish in a folder and run the script on all of them in one go.
You will only be asked about the sent message-to-received message conversion once.
Line End Changer 2.0
Line End Changer - Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X file conversion more>>
As written, it is set up to do the conversion for Web Star log files, but can be easily modified to handle any plain text file you want to convert.

TextWrangler 2.3
A richly-featured tool for composing, modifying, and transforming text stored in plain-text files. more>>
A powerful and richly-featured tool for composing, modifying, and transforming text stored in plain-text files. It features flexible ?grep? pattern-based search and replace, syntax coloring, and function navigation for C, C++, and Objective-C. Also includes integration with the UNIX command line via the ?edit? tool, built-in support for opening and saving files to remote FTP servers, and a rich plug-in architecture.
StyledTextToRecord 2.1
StyledTextToRecord - Convert styled text to a record and back more>>
This is a compiled AppleScript, a handler (or framework, if you prefer so) called "StyledTextToRecord" which will accept styled text as input and will return as output a record containing pertinent info about bolds, colors, font sizes, etc. of such text.
It also provides a handler for the reverse function called "RecordToStyledText". It accepts as input a record formated as returned by "StyledTextToRecord".
There are included two little samples. The first one will convert styled text to basic HTML. The second one will convert styled text to plain text, except for bolds.
SafEEditor for Mac 1.0
SafEEditor for Mac is described as an unique and handy tool that can enable you to save files in plain text only with Unix line termination, keeping them safe for use with various interpreters and compilers that are prone to complaining and halting when they encounter other types of line termination or styled text in scripts or other source code. more>> <<less
Text into ASCII Art 1.01
Text into ASCII Art is a very serviceable tool which will convert a line of text into a two-line ASCII art representation of that text. more>> <<less
Check Text 1.1.2
Check Text - Add commands for geting information of text more>>
In the Plain Text commands, the specified data is always handled as plain text. That is, the data is coerced to plain text (by Apple Event Manager) first if it is not.
For example, even the styled text is coerced to plain text anyway so that the original script (language) code is not considered.
Enhancements:
- Mac OS X version and PowerPC native versions are now available.
- The file name was changed from "Text X" to "Check Text".
- Functionally not changed from 1.1.1 but some parts of code were improved.
pdftotext Installer Package 3.0pl3
pdftotext Instaler Package - Instaler Package for pdftotext a shell program for converting PDF documents into plain text more>>
This installer will install nothing but a pdftotext binary and its manpage, compiled from the unmodified sources. Originally, pdftotext is part of the Xpdf software, which is a viewer for PDF documents. As I only needed the converter and not the viewer itself, this package does not contain anything except pdftotext. (Besides the fact that a full Xpdf installation requires the X window system.)
HTML-plain-flowed 1.0
HTML-plain-flowed is a Eudora plug-in that allows you to specify if Eudora should send HTML or plain text. You can also choose if the text should be flowed or not more>> HTML-plain-flowed is a Eudora plug-in that allows you to specify if Eudora should send HTML or plain text. You can also choose if the text should be flowed or not.
Eudora 5.0 or later.
Tell Me A Story 1.1.0
Tell Me A Story - Reads bedtime stories to children more>>
A story is read from beginning to end when you click on a title. Two stories are built-in and it is easy to add stories. The large buttons, large fonts and easy operation make it childs play.
To add to the stories in the StoryTime Bookcase, open Manage Stories from the menu bar and enter text into the Text Field a number of ways:
a. Type into the Text Field.
b. Select a source folder using the radio buttons (Mac version only), click on the "Load File" button to navigate to a plain text file and click on OK.
c. Paste text into the Text Field. This text could have been copied from a web page. (The menu bar has a link to a free internet site with thousands of free eBooks. You can find a story, copy the story from the web page, paste the story into the Text Field and edit as necessary.)
When you are ready to save the story, click the "Save File" button. You will be prompted for a story name (no suffix should be used - the ".txt" suffix is added automatically).
As noted on the Manage Stories window, words in capital letters will be spelled out; change such words to uppercase and lower case letters (Mac version only).
Web Location Converter 2.0
Web Location Converter offers you an ability to convert bookmark files from Internet Explorer (.url) format to Safari (.webloc) format, and vice versa. Also handles URLs in plain text files. more>>
Web Location Converter 2.0 offers you an ability to convert bookmark files from Internet Explorer (.url) format to Safari (.webloc) format, and vice versa. Also handles URLs in plain text files.