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Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editor with a customizable interface. View options include minimap, directory view, line numbers, rulers, and skins. The code viewer enables syntax highlighting support for over 50 languages and scripts, customizable with over 100 options, 29 ready made styles.
Search tools include a file comparison feature, wildcards and regular expressions support, multiple directory results, and a duplicate text finder.
Other power features include macro recording and playback, hotkeys, and file execution. You can also convert untis (e.g. volume and mass), speak text, onscreen zoom, SQL formatter and more.
Supports 20 world languages.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. %LOCALAPPDATA%\TextEditorPro |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP or 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TextEditorPro.exe -appinipath. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Notepad3 |
What's new? | See: https://texteditor.pro/index.php?page=history |
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webfork
on 2019-01-27 13:09
It doesn't have functionality far in advance of other editors, but the interface is great. There are big, clear icons, themes, easy tabbed interface, and a really smooth options menu. If you think text editors are supposed to be functional rather than friendly, this might not be your cup of tea. Otherwise...
PapaiMark
on 2020-02-25 15:11
Nice. The best text compare Ive ever seen. And mainly because of the trim-left/right.
eitang
on 2021-12-10 15:46
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Hi all, |
Lintalist is a context-sensitive text expander with abbreviations, shortcuts, plugins, and scripts. It allows you to store and (incrementally) search and edit texts in bundles and paste a selected text in your active program. Entered text can be interactive, such as automatically inserting the current time and date, requesting (basic) user input, or making a selection from a list, as well as running a script.
The program supports keyboard shortcuts or abbreviations to paste the text (or run a script) without opening the search window, and allows images and formatted text, including HTML, markdown, and RTF.
A 64-bit version is also available. Written in AutoHotkey
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes. The program can create shortcuts (lnk) on your desktop and/or startup folder for you. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Lintalist.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Beeftext Texter |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/lintalist/lintalist/blob/master/changelog.md |
Latest comments |
hamasaki
on 2020-04-11 21:41
Doesn't work unless I'm missing something. Change any setting, restart and it crashes.
hamasaki
on 2021-08-08 12:37
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Finally got around to taking a closer look at this software and I'm totally blown away with just how good it is. You need to spend a bit of time with it, but wow, such a timesaver. I can consolidate 3 or 4 other programs I use into just this one. Excellent. |
WinSCP is a feature-rich tabbed file transfer client with a variety of views including single-window, dual-pane and tree view interfaces. The program supports standard FTP as well as secure connections using WebDav, S3, SSH, SSL/TLS and legacy SCP. The program can search, perform directory synchronization between local and remote, change properties, and edit text/binary files.
Includes support for scripting, task automation, various authentication tools, proxy, SSH tunnels and IPv6.
Alternatively, WinSCP Portable is multilingual and supports PuTTY Portable.
An outdated X-WinSCP, packaged in winPenPack's format, is also available.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPL |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Bitvise SSH Client, FileZilla |
What's new? | See: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/history |
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dmiranda
on 2024-02-22 07:25
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This latest version doesn't seem to work in XP. Last version working is 6.1.2.13797 |
TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of most audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Album info available via online databases like gnudb, Discogs or MusicBrainz and includes a built-in audio player.
Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4 (iTunes) tags. Includes powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features and a playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML, Excel or any user-defined format.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Tagscan.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
What's new? | See: https://www.xdlab.ru/en/history.htm |
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zorro
on 2021-04-27 05:55
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Note: starting with actual version 6.18 TagScanner requires the VC-/Universal Runtimes. I stumbled upon because this runtimes cannot be installed on my system. Version 6.17 however works fine. |
Sigil is a tabbed editor for the EPUB format commonly used in eBooks. The program includes basic formatting, customizable fonts and styles, hotkeys and spellcheck. You can generate a table of contents, embed files (audio, video, or other), edit/add metadata, rearrange or split pages, add vector (SVG) images and available "clips" for frequently entered text.
As the format is based on simple HTML, the program includes a WYSIWYG-style book vs. code view, the ability to modify cascading style sheets and additional functionality via plugins. The program can even shrink some eBooks by discarding unused media elements.
Cross-platform with clients for Linux, Mac and supports many languages. Sigil Portable is a wrapper version of the program and an outdated X-Sigil is also available.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: |
Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch SigilPortable.exe. Optionally, the user guide is available as a separate download. |
Similar/alternative apps: | KompoZer |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases |
PDF-XChange Editor is a fast, feature-rich PDF viewer and editor with a tabbed interface. The program includes edition of text-based PDFs, OCR of images to fully text-searchable, full document spellchecking, rotate/crop, comments/annotations, QR codes and more. You can apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects and add/edit hyperlinks.
The program supports import and export to text or image (BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc.).
Note: The free PDF-XChange Editor lacks some features present in the registered version (payware). Some "Pro" features can be used, but will add a watermark upon saving.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PDFXEdit.exe. Optionally:
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Similar/alternative apps: |
Foxit Reader, PDF XChange Viewer Xelitan PDF Reader (8MB) |
What's new? | See: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/history |
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Cornflower
on 2022-04-17 16:26
To fill out forms, simply use the typewriter tool in the freeware portable version.
tomcat
on 2023-10-24 03:07
Alternatively, MS word versions from 2013 and above, can convert PDF into Word format, which you can edit as needed. You can then save the document as a Word file or as a PDF document again.
Stephen Leibowitz
on 2024-01-13 17:02
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Microsoft Defender gives a false positive for PDF-XChange Editor: |
GetWindowText lets you grab text from static system messages via drag-and-drop. The program lets you work with most windows containing text including Edit, Static, Groupbox - Controls etc.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GetWindowText.exe or GetWindowText_x64.exe (for 64-bit OS). |
Similar/alternative apps: | SysExporter, Textify |
What's new? | See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/GetWindowText/History |
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TP109
on 2017-11-02 22:47
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Easy to use and works good - just drag and drop over the window or dialog box. Seems more reliable and lite weight compared to similar apps. |
MemPad is a text editor that lets you add, edit, and arrange your notes in a hierarchical, tree-based view. It supports text search, word-wrap mode, read-only mode, auto-save, notebook encryption, automatic backup, search-and-replace, a diary mode etc.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Mempad.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
What's new? | See: https://horstmuc.de/wnews.htm |
Latest comments |
hamasaki
on 2015-05-01 15:25
@Cornflower, I`ve tried that but when you save in MemPad it doesn`t update the dropbox file, you have to export it again. No good.
NunoEFSilva
on 2021-12-19 06:26
This is another hidden gem. Does it take notes in a structured way? Does it encrypt its contents? Yes, but that is just the beginning... One may keep all its favorites and use MemPad as a launcher of sites (http:something.dom), applications (file:..\ProgramFolder\Program.exe - it even accepts relative paths), folders and much more. All in little more than 100 KBytes! Sheer Magic!
Cornflower
on 2022-02-18 01:47
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Updated to 3.69 |
SavageEd2 is a very small and fast Notepad replacement. It can edit files of any size, limited only by memory. It can encrypt text files using AES encryption with 256 bit key (max 32 character password) in .enc format. It has Pattern searching features and written in x86 assembly language (HLA).
Note: SavageEd2 is the replacement for former SavageEd.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder. |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SavageEd.exe. |
What's new? | Full changelog at https://github.com/Androthi/SavageEd/blob/master/CHANGE_LOG.md. |
Latest comments |
IanFromBarrie
on 2021-07-05 10:24
Just now (2021-07-05) Google says "this file is infected with a virus. Only the owner can download ..."
__philippe
on 2021-07-05 15:11
V*rus Total reported infection ratio (19/74) is indeed a tad too high for comfort...:-(
Midas
on 2021-08-03 07:38
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The former program's webpage (see below) is very outdated. Linked to Github. |
NOTE: This program has mostly been replaced by PDF-XChange Editor (also portable), which is actively updated and contains additional features.
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PDF-XChange Viewer is a feature-rich program that displays multiple PDF documents within a tabbed interface. Edit features include the ability to rotate documents, add comments/annotations to any PDF file, apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects, and type directly on any PDF page in "Typewriter" mode.
The program supports exporting to BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc., or extracting text from a PDF page/file. Additional features include capturing the document with the snapshot tool (copies an area to clipboard), measuring tools for distance, area and perimeter, and more. A recommended picture-to-text OCR plugin is available (thanks Bruce) as is a PDF help file.
Reported as functional on Mac/Linux under WINE. Alternatively, PDF-XChange Viewer Portable adjusts paths, with an OCR plugin and help file available from the website as separate downloads.
For 64-bit, see forum post
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | SumatraPDF, PDF-XChange Editor, STDU Viewer |
What's new? |
See: https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer/history |
Latest comments |
Midas
on 2016-03-27 20:32
FYI, additional languages OCR downloads are available from http://www.tracker-software.com/pdf-xchange-viewer-ocr ...
Mixture
on 2017-02-07 16:30
@zorro:
PAFuser
on 2017-06-30 15:11
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Mixture is correct. Only need as viewer with able to add text comment (download utility bills and mark date paid, less paper stored). |