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Text Coder Service 1.0
Text Coder Service - Plug-in to convert text in one format to another more>>
It supports the following conversions:
Base-64 to UTF-8
Base-64 to UTF-16
FourCharCodes to Hex and Comment
Hex to C-style Byte Array
Hex to UTF-8
Hex to UTF-16
Java Unicode Escape
Java Unicode Unescape
Number to Binary/Decimal/Hex/Octal Number
UTF-8 to Base-64
UTF-8 to Hex
UTF-16 to Base-64
UTF-16 to Hex.
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.

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

TextSpeech Pro 3.4.4
Easy to use application that will allow your Mac to read text using natural sounding voices. more>>
Major Features:
- Built on the latest text to speech technology
- Synthesize text-to-speech from any document format (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) using a variety of voices and languages
- Read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools
- Export the synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats in three modes (quick, normal and batch)
- Create and modify conversations, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) in a document using an advanced text-to-speech editor
- Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses) on the fly
- Extract text from scanned documents and convert it to speech or audio files
- Create custom pronunciations using a universal correction system
- Save the created documents with all specified voice settings and entities (voice type, pitch, speed, volume, bookmarks, conversations, pauses, word highlighting) for future use
- Pause, resume or stop the speaking voice
- Tune the speech output using standard XML tags
- Use a fully featured document editor with many text processing features (text manipulation, spell checker, print and print preview, find and replace, go to line..., customizable fonts, zoom capabilities, and document properties view)
- Mark copied text to be automatically transferred and converted to speech
- Access previously used documents from a high-capacity document history
- Utilize a rich and fully configurable user interface (UI) equipped with customizable window docks, toolbars, a multi-tabbed document interface and a layout-saving framework
- Web integration improved.
- Language support improved.
textMachine 1.1
textMachine - simple word processor with fun little features more>>
Format plain text files instantly, and save them with no formatting again!
Enhancements:
- Minor bug fixes
- Menu Updates.
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.
HumaneText.service 5
HumaneText.service is a simple background service for Mac OS X that allows you to write in a humane text format and replace that text in place with valid HTML more>> HumaneText.service is a simple background service for Mac OS X that allows you to write in a humane text format and replace that text in place with valid HTML. You can use any arbitrary text filter program or script in place of the ones included.
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
Release notes not available currently.
Text Converter 1.0.2
Text Converter is a powerful and splendid tool which does not only convert Windows texts to Macintosh format, it can convert practically all text encodings you will ever encounter. more>>
Text Converter 1.0.2 is a powerful and splendid tool which does not only convert Windows texts to Macintosh format, it can convert practically all text encodings you will ever encounter. Ever got text files that you could not read, or where some characters were messed up? With this tool, if everything else fails, you can easily define your own custom conversions.
EncodeText Plugin 1.4.1
FileMaker ISOLatin, Unicode or US-ASCII text converter. more>>
TextExporter 2.1.0
TextExporter is released to help you export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file easily. more>>
TextExporter 2.1.0 is released to help you export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file easily.
Major Features
- Export text in 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.
Enhancements:
- TextExporter 2.0.9 did not work with InDesign CS and CS2 - fixed now.
- Fixed unreasonably slow 'text to black' feature.
- Fixed issue where TextExporter occasionally inserted separating newlines into the exported text in the wrong spot.
Export text in three different file formats: Rich Text Format, InDesign Tagged Text and TextLicense:Freeware
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
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
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
Convert Script 1.0d4
Convert Script - Convert script text between ASCII and Mac format more>>
Designed for use with AppleScript mailing lists, it also attempts to salvage mangled scripts which were not preprocessed prior to being sent to the mailing list.
Special symbols like chevrons, not equal signs, continuation characters and others are replaced with other characters by the server sometimes making the original script unreadable.
Completly freeware.
Enhancements:
- Fix breaks seems to work better now.

Nisus Writer Pro 1.4
Nisus Writer Pro is described as an easy-to-use yet useful software that offers new features such as Table of Contents, Indexing, Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering, and Text Wrap around images. more>>
Nisus Writer Pro 1.4 is described as an easy-to-use yet useful software that offers new features such as Table of Contents, Indexing, Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering, and Text Wrap around images.
Familiar Classic features are also on board, like attribute sensitive Find and Replace, an upgraded Nisus Macro Language, and Glossaries.
A number of existing features are also improved. For example, a variety of additional options have been added to control the display of notes. Footnotes can now also span across pages.
Along with those new features, popular features like the award winning interface, Multilingual text support, easy to use Style system, Non-contiguous selection, Full Screen mode, and Linkback support are kept and improved. Best of all, you don't have to worry what word processor your colleague is using. The native file format is RTF (Rich Text Format), which is read by almost every word processor on the planet. Pro will also read Word (.doc), Word Perfect, and AbiWord documents.
Designed as a Unicode word processor from the ground up, Nisus Writer Pro supports Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. Using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) with Pro enables you to enter right to left text as in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. No other word processor makes it easier to combine multiple languages in a single document.
As a student or academic, you have enough to deal with. One thing you shouldn't have to do is spend time learning to use your word processor. Nisus Writer Pro allows you to start writing quickly, with its intuitive interface and tools at your command. Flexible note styles give you control over footnote and endnote layout. Bibliography tools such as Bookends and EndNote work easily with Nisus Writer Pro. Enhancing the Apple spelling dictionaries built-in to OS X are tools such as CocoAspell from Anton Leuski, Antidote RX by Druide Informatique, and the Hebrew Spelling Service from Mitz Pettel.
Major Features:
- Award Winning Interface: clean and uncluttered.
- Palettes: easy to use tools that stay out of your way.
- Multilingual: your language, your way.
- Document Manager: manage your documents like your music.
- Compatibility: supports a variety of file formats, including RTF and Microsoft Word.
- Styles: configure styles easily by formatting them just as you would text.
- Dictionary and Thesaurus: always at the ready.
- Find & Replace: advanced search options, including PowerFind and attribute sensitive find.
- Comments: grouped to save visual space and MS Word compatible.
- Footnotes and Endnotes: enhanced flexibility.
- Table of Contents: for navigation, outlining, and generating full TOCs.
- Indexing: generate full Indexes from your document.
- Bookmarks: for navigation or cross-referencing.
- Cross-References: produce complex documents.
- Macros: automate your workflow with advanced macros.
- Floating Images: wrap text around graphics.
- Mail Merge: merge with your Address Book or text files.
- Line Numbers: completely flexible in appearance.
Enhancements: Added: built-in menus for Bookends integration (under the menu Insert > Bibliography.