iPassepartout 1.2 review

iPassepartout is a very powerful Cocoa application for MacOS X that allows you to see/read/play/select/copy/ immediately the content of any kind of file from a list of files found or dragged.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1046K Developer: softoBe Buy Now Price: $35.00 Updated: 22 Nov 2005

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iPassepartout is a very powerful Cocoa application for MacOS X that allows you to see/read/play/select/copy/ immediately the content of any kind of file from a list of files found or dragged. Simply drag a folder onto iPassepartout and you get a list of all the files. Then click on the items of the list and see instantaneously in a unique window the content of the file, no matter if it is a text, graphic, audio or movie file.

iPassepartout lets you see everything like txt, rtf, rtfd, html, pdf, jpg, png, tif, pict, icns, bmp, photoshop, gif, tga, mp3, aif, wav, mpg, mov, avi, and many many others more.

So you can play/select/copy movies and songs, see and crop and copy the images, read and select and copy the text files, search within the text, see html and pdf documents, see all the icons embedded within the applications, copy the files to a different location, delete the files from the disk...

iPassepartout also has a powerful search engine, better than the Finder's Find command.iPassepartout is a french name meaning "the main key that opens all the rooms in a Hotel". So it opens all the kind of files found or dragged.

Here are some key features of "iPassepartout":
Search for content, filename, dates, kind, within filePackages...
Read/select/copy/drag text, locate the occurrences.
See/crop/copy/drag images.
Play/select/copy audio files.
Play/select/copy movie files.
Read/display HTML and PDF documents
See File info, Graphic Exif info and Audio ID3 info.
Export images changing size, format, resolution, with several naming kinds, to one folder or to a "source folder tree copy".
Extract and export icons as jpg, png, tiff bmp, gif.
Save pathname list.
Copy the files from the list to a different location.
Delete the files from the disk.
Search for all the icons embedded within the applications
Set the found files visible/invisible
Set a custom creation and modification date to the files found.
Apply a watermark to the exported images.

Limitations:
Registration screen at startup.
10 launches trial.

What's New:
This version runs on MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher.
It's a free upgrade for all the registered version 1 users.
Added the menus "Set Visible" and "Set Invisible". Select the items in the items found list then call these commands to make those files and folders visible or invisible in the Finder.
Added the menus "Set Creation Date" and "Set Modification Date". Select the items in the items found list then call these commands to set your custom creation date/time or modification date/time to the files and folders selected.
Added the "Print WaterMark" feature in the Export Images procedure. You can choose an image to overprint, its position over the original image, the copy mode (copy, darker, lighter) and the transparency.
Other minor improvements.