rich text format formatting
Date Format OSAX 1.1
Date Format OSAX is capable of formatting date and time values into human readable strings effectively. more>>
Date Format OSAX 1.1 is capable of formatting date and time values into human readable strings effectively. It offers similar functionality to the strftime function available to C programmers or the SimpleDateFormat class in Java. Complete details are in the readme file.
Requirements:
- Mac OS 10.3 or higher
Change File Format 1.5
Change File Format - Covert large numbers of Preview documents to another format more>>
Enhancements:
- More Bug Fixes.
License:Freeware
AS Formatting Juggler 1.0.1
AS Formatting juggler - Switch between multiple sets of AppleScript code formats more>>
The script allows you to save format settings currently in use or restore saved settings.
Completly freeware.
Format Automator Action Parameters 1.0
Format Automator Action Parameters - Helps set up formatted interface parameters when creating Automator Actions more>>
Type in all the interface parameters that are bound to controls into a new TextEdit document, separated with a tab from their initial value, like this:
paramName value
The script will add to that document these parameters formatted for both the info.plist file and the actual script.

CoolTerm for Mac 1.1.1
Terminal for communication with hardware connected to serial ports. more>>
CoolTerm for Mac 1.1.1 provides users with an easy-to-use and professional serial port terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data with hardware connected to serial ports such as servo controllers, robotic kits, GPS receivers, microcontrollers, etc.
Major Features:
- Capability of multiple concurrent connections if multiple serial ports are available.
- Display of received data in textual or hexadecimal format.
- Sending data via keypresses as well as a "Send String" dialog that support data entry in textual or hexadecimal format.
- Sending data via pasting of text into the terminal window.
- Sending of text files.
- Capability of recording received data to text files.
- Local echoing of transmitted data.
- Local echoing of received data (loop back to sender).
- Hardware (CTS, DTR) and software flow control (XON).
- Optical line status indicators.
- Capability of manually toggling RTS and DTR signals when hardware flow control is disabled.
- Capability of loading and saving connection options.
htmlText Editor 1.0
Free WYSIWYG editor for htmlText more>> Free WYSIWYG editor for htmlText
htmlText editor will help you generate HTML formatted text from simple text. It is mainly used by Flex developers.
System requirements:
- Adobe Air
Lightning Brain Text Exporter 1.0.2
Lightning Brain Text Exporter - Export Adobe InDesigin stories into a single file more>>
Completly freeware for personal use.
Main features:
- Support three different file formats: Rich Text Format, InDesign Tagged Text and Text.
- Export stories belonging to a specified range of pages.
- Allows exclusion of stories on master pages.
- Allows exclusion of stories on the pasteboard.
- Allows exclusion of stories based on their number of characters.
- Sort stories based on their position on the page.
PSD Format 1.0
PSD Format is known as a simple yet useful shell and desktop tool. more>>
PSD Format 1.0 is known as a simple yet useful shell and desktop tool. PSD Format reads Photoshop document format files and converts them to presets. The preset lists can be modified, deleted, rearranged and saved as "Default New Doc Sizes.txt" files.
screenplayformat 2.0
screenplayformat is widely known as a good-quality and simple-to-use perl script which converts a loosely formatted text file and formats it as an rtf file following standard screenplay conventions. more>>
screenplayformat 2.0 is widely known as a good-quality and simple-to-use perl script which converts a loosely formatted text file and formats it as an rtf file following standard screenplay conventions. A GUI version is in the works.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X
Text Manipulator 2.1
Text Manipulator - Word processor with time saving functions more>>
This saves you time by combining all of the functions you need into one handy application.
Main features:
- Alphabetize Text- This function allows you to alphabetize text that is either formatted in sentence form (delineated by spaces) or in list form, ie one word per line (delineated by returns).
- Find Words Of Length- With this command you can extract words of a certain length from your text.
- Remove Duplicates- This removes duplicate words from a list. This is handy for removing duplicate words from wordlists.
- Prefix/Suffix Lines- This command adds or deletes a suffix/prefix from all the lines in your text. This feature is helpful for html, or programming where you may have a long list of lines that have different bodies, but similar prefixes or suffixes
- Re-Arrange Lines- This will allow you to take text from paragraph form and turn it into a return delineated list, take text from a return delineated list into paragraph form, or arrange words in a random order.
- Convert to Title Case- This will convert the currently selected text to title case, which capitalizes the first letter of every word. Selecting the chubby rabbit ran would be converted to The Chubby Rabbit Ran
- Spelling- This will run spell check on your document or the selection, depending on which option you choose
- Dictionary- This will bring up an internet based dictionary. You must be connected to the internet to use this feature. Enter a word and Text Manipulator will query several online dictionaries and return the definition of the word.
Enhancements:
- Added preferences for default font,size and color
- Line number now updates properly
- Fixed problems with cmd-shift-o,cmd-shift-i, and cmd-shift-c
- Improved speed of internet dictionary
- Select all is now allowed in fields besides text field (ie find box, internet dicitonary etc)
- Direct printing of dictionary results is now allowed
- Stability improvements
- Fixed minor cosmetic problems in various areas (such as save dialog and document info window)
- Total number of lines displayed in info window is now correct all the time.
Rainbow Text 1.1
Colorizes text into a rainbow. more>>
Built-in text Service for Rainbow Text allows text from other Cocoa applications to be colorized.Applescript support.

Text to Audio File 1.1
This app creates small AIFF files out of the text you give it. It uses Leopard’s new realistic human-like voice to create rich, uninterrupted audio files. more>> <<less
Text Reader 1.2.1
Saves text file to audio file using text-to-speech. more>>
Text Layout Framework Pre 1.111808
Text Layout Framework Pre provides you with a perfect and very useful extensible library which is built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10. more>>
The framework is designed to be used with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional or Adobe Flex, and is already included in the next version of Flex, code named Gumbo. Developers can use or extend existing components, or use the framework to create their own text components.
Text Layout Framework enables support for complex scripts, bidirectional text, vertical layout, multi-column layout, inline images, and many other text layout and advanced typographical features.
The Text Layout Framework is a library built on top of the new text engine in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5. This framework provides support for high quality, typographically rich, flowable text layout with selection, editing, undo, copy-paste, and an XML markup language to dynamically style text. The Text Layout Framework is written in ActionScript 3.0 and does not have a specific dependency on Flex, Flash CS4 Professional, or any other framework. The Text Layout Framework is for developers who work in Flash, Flex Builder, or other IDEs that support ActionScript. It contains the .swc files that implement the framework and code examples for building custom components.
The Text Layout Flash Component is a proof-of-concept component designed to be used with Flash CS4 Professional, but is not part of the Flash CS4 Professional release. This component is built using the Text Layout Framework. The MXP also provides a Text Layout panel UI which can be used to visually layout text and access advanced typographic features. this UI tis o test the Text Layout Framework, and it is not in final form. The UI is not intended to indicate any eventual UI within Flash CS4 Professional or future releases.
Major Features:
- Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Latin (English, Spanish, French, German, Vietnamese etc.), Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Tifinagh, Yi, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Deseret, Shavian, Vai, Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Han ideographs and Kana (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Hangul Johab (Korean), Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Thaana, and Tibetan.
- Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images
- Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography
- Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
- Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing
- Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.
Requirements:
- Adobe Flash Player 10
- AIR 1.5
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