Free text files software for mac

Decompile AppleScripts to Text Files can be used as a droplet. Save it as an application with your script editor, and drag applescript applications or compiled scripts, or folders of applescript applications or compiled scripts onto its icon to create a hierarchical backup of them saved in text format with the name extension "applescript" in a folder called "Script_backups" in the same folder as the items you drag.

Decompile AppleScripts to Text Files does exactly what its name says.

The scripts to be backed up must be named with either the "scpt" or "app" name extensions. If any of the items you drag contain applications other than Applescript applications, they will be ignored.

If a dropped Applescript application is in bundle (package) format, the entire hierarchy of the application will be created from the package folder down to its applescript file in the Scripts folder of the package which will be saved in text format with the name extension "applescript". The backed up version will still appear as an application in the Finder, but will not work, and youll have to use the "Show Package Contents" command to get to the text version of the script in the Finder.

If two scripts having the same name, one ending with the "scpt" name extension, and the other ending with the "app" name extension, they will both be saved, the latter of the two retaining the original name extension and the "applescript" name extension.

Compare Files is a tool for comparing the lines in two text files. You may use it, for example, to compare two different versions of a HTML file. Or you might want to compare your iTunes library to a database of your audio CDs.

Whatever you want to compare, just get it into two text files (i.e. files in SimpleText format) and drag them to the Compare Files window. Compare Files will look through both files and display their contents next to each other, with any new, modified, or deleted lines appearing highlighted. See this screenshot for an example. It’s also possible to apply single blocks of non-matching lines from one file to the other.

Compare Files provides a number of options controlling its comparing behavior. For example, it can ignore slight differences such as additional spaces or blank lines, or it can skip comments in source code.

Text Sucker is a utility (saved as an AppleScript droplet) for extracting the text from QuarkXPress documents. As its name implies, it requires QuarkXPress version 4.11.

Just drag-and-drop one or more XPress files on to Text Suckers icon, and you will be given the opportunity to change some preferences (see below).

Text Sucker will then open and copy the text from each file one at a time, and save it in a text file.

Text Cleaner Lite 1.6 is an essential and useful tool that is specially created for designers, desktop publishers, service bureaus who work with text files. Without it, you'll spend hours figuring out and performing the best sequence of search and replace operations.

Requirements:

• System 7.0 or higher
  

iTunes playlist to text file is a simple AppleScript which makes a text file of the track names of an iTunes playlist.
Handy if youre making a CD cover for a playlist you burn to CD from iTunes.

Completly freeware.