TextSoap 7.2

For people working with other people’s documents, email, web pages, and more, TextSoap effortlessly cleans up text from endlessly different formats. Wash away unwanted characters, spaces, tabs. Fix paragraphs with hard returns at the end of each line, as well as a myriad of other formatting issues that come your way and do it all while retaining desired font styles. Unlike finding and replacing each of dozens of typical formatting issues or manually perusing through a file to find errors and fixing them by hand, TextSoap can automate that task down to just one click. And you can do it all from within your favorite app using the TextSoap Universal menu. Choose from more than 100 pre-built cleaners or create your own custom solution using dozens of individual text transforming actions. Easy to learn for casual users, TextSoap also has the flexibility that serious users need.

KEY FEATURES FOR EVERYONE
Use TextSoap inside your favorite app.
Clean plain or rich text of unwanted formatting issues.
Create custom cleaners to match your specific text transformation needs.
Use batch file cleaning easily process a whole collection of files.

KEY FEATURES FOR POWER USERS
Powerful control in finding and changing most text and font attributes.
Conditional actions add great flexibility and simplicity when transforming text.
Regex lab helps you build new regular expressions.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

Version 7.2:

Improvements:
Additional polish when opening, closing, selecting sidebar tabs.
Added iWorld,iPhone,iPad,iMac to common tech names capitalization cleaner.
Major preferences rework:
Renamed Universal to "Universal Menu", with new icon.
Renamed Grep to "Saved Searches", with new icon.
Moved Universal Menu tab to more prominent placement.
Moved Clipboard Workspace & Extras options into General tab.
Install Universal Menu in Menubar moved to General tab.
Agent mode option also moved to General tab.
Markdown with Preview is now handled internally instead of opening Safari for the preview.
Better handling of dropping Automator workflows onto TextSoap window.
Better regular expression replacement string handling.
Shows amount of text cleaned in about box.
Usage statistics option added to about window to show specific cleaners applied and how often.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed: When closing find or regex lab sidebar, cursor focus would not return to text editor.
Fixed: Text field heights in find & replace custom cleaner action could get incorrect value.
Fixed: Under certain conditions, find sidebar tab would default to regular expression instead of text string searches.
Fixed: Running an automator workflow from within a custom cleaner could cause cleaner to crash.
Fixed: Could not properly replace match when also using look-ahead or look-behind groups in a regular expression.
Fixed: Regression issue that could cause some html entities to incorrectly evaluated.
Fixed: Conditional "If Text Matches" did not always respect the match capture group option.
Fixed: Action list "cleaners" in cleaner editor would not update correctly when new cleaners were added.
Fixed: Word count and invisibles properly update when document is opened and preferences are set.