Clean Text 4.0.2 review

Often you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another, and you want the text to get the attributes (such as color, font, dimension and style) of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 3719K Developer: Apimac Buy Now Price: $24.00 Updated: 11 Oct 2006

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Often you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another, and you want the text to get the attributes (such as color, font, dimension and style) of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one.

Clean Text for Mac eliminates all text formatting, preparing it for pasting. Moreover, the application performs other useful functions, such as removing empty lines, removing multiple spaces, removing tab characters etc.

If you don't want to apply changes to the whole document, just choose the text you want to clean, and Clean Text will modify only that selection. It's also very useful for printing out text without wasting ink and paper, as often happens when you print directly from a Web browser.

Here are some key features of "Clean Text":
Fixes Paragraphs.
Removes returns within a paragraph and removes multiple empty lines between paragraphs.
Replaces multiple spaces with a single space and removes spaces at the beginning and at the end of a line.
Replaces each tab with a specified number of spaces.
Replaces each sequence of a specified number of spaces with a single tab.
Removes the quoting characters ">" at the beginning of lines.
Adds the quoting characters ">" at the beginning of lines.
Removes returns.
Replaces each return with a single space.
Converts to smart quotes.
Converts to straight quotes.
Replaces quotes with curly quotes.
Replaces curly quotes with straight quotes.
Text shifting right or left.
Adds a specified number of spaces before each line (delimited by line ending).
Sorts all the lines all the lines of the text (delimited by a line ending) using ascending order.
Capitalizes sentences. Capitalizes the first word of each sentence (delimited by "." and ellipsis "...").
Capitalizes words.
Sets characters to uppercase.
Sets characters to lowercase.
Random case.
Removes duplicate lines. Keeps only the first line between a group of equal lines.
Text encoding. Windows to Mac encoding.
Mac to Windows encoding. Converts MacOSRoman encoding to Windows Latin 1.
ROT-13. Rotates characters 13 positions in the alphabet.
Reverse text. Reverses characters.
Reverses each word.
Reverses words.
Converts three periods to ellipsis. Replaces each chunk of three periods with one single ellipsis (in Mac version only).
Converts ellipsis to three periods (in Mac version only).
Creates fi and fl ligatures. Creates professional publishing fi and fl ligatures for each "fi" and "fl" sequences in the text (in Mac version only).
Removes fi and fl ligatures (in Mac version only).
Encodes to Macintosh Line Endings (CR).
Encodes to Unix Line Endings (LF).
Encodes to Windows Line Endings (CR+LF). Converts all line breaks to "Carriage Return"+"Line Feed".

Limitations:
A shareware reminder window appears and forces you to wait for some seconds every time you open the program
Some options as "Fix Paragraphs" and "Remove Returns" will become unavailable.

What's New:
This release fixes a bug of the "Fix spaces" feature when commas, colons and dots are in numbers.

Note from the product team: this application is a PowerPC-based application, we are working on making it Universal (which means made to run natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers), in the mean time, you can use it with some decreasing of performance with Intel-based Mac thanks to Rosetta technology (which is built into Mac OS X and dynamically translates this applications to work with Intel-based Mac).