TextSpresso 3.0b2 review

TextSpresso is an easy to use, professional level text editor and cleaner.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 13008K Developer: Taylor Design Buy Now Price: $25.00 Updated: 19 Dec 2006

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TextSpresso is an easy to use, professional level text editor and cleaner. TextSpresso includes over 250 filters and can:

* Clean up Internet text, including E-mails and downloaded web pages.
* Prepare text for Internet transport, HTML publishing, and print publishing.
* Perform fast, multi-pattern data extraction, such as extracting web page URLs.
* Sort text according to user defined sections and keys.
* Convert text files between Mac and PC with highly accurate character preservation.
* Filter the selected text in virtually any application through a Global Filter Menu and Palette.
* Batch filter text files with a fast, multi-threaded batch processor.
* Open, view, edit, and filter text and data files with dozens or even hundreds of MB's of data.

Here are some key features of "TextSpresso":
Supports filtering of the selected text within virtually any application.
Batch processing of documents.
Fast, memory efficient, multi-threaded filters.
Up to 100 levels of undo for each open document.
Includes over 250 filters for HTML, Internet, platform conversion, publishing, data extraction, sorting, web search, and more.
MultiFilters provide double click application of more than one filter.
Extract Data filters provide fast, multi-pattern data extraction.
Sort Pattern filters sort text according to user defined sections and keys.
BASIC Script filters allow users to process text using the BASIC programming language.
Users may create new filters using any one of 11 core filter types.
Users can trade filters they create with other TextSpresso users.
Over 30 user preferences.
Intuitive, slick user interface.

Limitations:
TextSpresso will run normally for a 30 day trial period, after which the user must purchase a license to continue using TextSpresso.

What's New:
Global Filter Menu which lets users filter text in other applications by simply selecting the text and then selecting the filter from the global menu.
Global Filter Palette which lets users filter text in other applications by simply selecting the text and then double clicking the filter in the palette.
A new text display engine which can display and edit hundreds of MB's of text and data quickly and efficiently, enabling TextSpresso to deal with files that literally choke competing products.
* BASIC Script filter type which lets users create filters using the BASIC programming language. BASIC Script filters can process text in ways that go behind search and replace and can even access the web.
* Text filtering and display engines updated for Unicode with file encoding conversion for dozens of text encodings on both Mac OS and Windows.