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Sigil Portable v2.1.0 Updated

lwc on 5 Apr 2024
  • 344MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by ChemZ

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 Sigil Portable is a wrapper version of the program and an outdated X-Sigil is also available.

Category:
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

Scribus Portable v1.6.1

Andrew Lee on 17 Jan 2024
  • 137MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by JohnW

Scribus is a desktop-publishing tool similar to Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher. It supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Includes support for a wide variety of file types via import filters, rendering of markup languages and XML file format. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. Scribus is cross-platform and open source.

Scribus Portable is PortableApps.com version of the program. Alternatively, X-Scribus is also available.

Win2K user: Version 1.3 series option (unsupported): Portable Scribus - (choose English or multilingual, extract to any folder of your choice and Launch PortableScribus.exe)

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch ScribusPortable.exe

Optional: to enable a variety of PDF functions, install Ghostscript Portable to the folder adjacent to ScribusPortable (e.g. If you have installed Portable Scribus to X:\PortableApps\ScribusPortable, install Ghostscript to X:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\Ghostscript)
Similar/alternative apps: Inkscape
What's new? See: https://www.scribus.net/category/news/
Latest comments
zorro on 2019-01-28 03:40

...sorry, my previous comment only applies to the stable version 1.4.7 - changing "HKCU\Software\QtProject.." to "HKCU\Software\Trolltech.." in "ScribusPortable.ini" does it.
The test version (1.5.4) is stealth out of the box.

juverax on 2023-05-23 09:50

Scribus 1.5.8 released See https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-5-8-released/
" The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.8. Like previous releases, work on version 1.5.8 focused mostly on bugfixes and code optimizations, the latter of which are expected to lead to reliability and speed improvements. We have also begun to prepare Scribus for using Qt6, which will make our work easier for future releases. "

I am not sure this release i portable,since itis not a "paf" file.

juverax on 2023-05-23 09:57

Download page (Sourceforge):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.8/

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CSVpad v1.2

webfork on 25 Apr 2017
  • 692KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2014
  • Suggested by kitsaros

CSVpad is a handy basic spreadsheet editor for the CSV (Comma-separated values) format. The program includes hotkeys, column and row management, export to other spreadsheet formats, and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CSVpad.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CSV Buddy, DMcsvEditor, CSVFileView, CSVed
What's new?
    Version 1.2 :
  • Added : Undo function
  • Added : Redo function
  • Updated : Open url
  • Updated : documentation
  • Fixed : duplicate rows / columns
  • Fixed : hotkeys
Latest comments
Special on 2015-05-20 12:54

I gave CSVed a try as well, and it feels even more sluggish then CSVFileView, maybe it's just the files I'm using, there about 200-300KB's in size with a few 700~KB's ones.

BGM on 2018-01-21 17:38

Any idea how to use commandline to open files with csvpad?

Midas on 2018-01-21 19:56

Doesn't "csvpad.exe myfile.csv" work? Ask for help in the forum topic...

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JSONedit v0.9.42 Updated

Ennovy on 20 Feb 2024
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Feb 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

JSONedit is a simple editor for the JavaScript Object Notation format "a text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange" (source) with available text and tree views.

Includes array generator using embedded Lua interpreter and Scintilla for text edition.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch JSONedit.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: JSON Viewer
What's new?
  • added options to modify some of the menu shortcuts (allowing to redefine them as user hotkeys)
  • fixed renaming array elements on the tree after adding/removing elements if extended node description option was used
  • added new setting, "JSON"/"Emit raw UTF-8 characters (instead of escaping as hex codes)", enabled by default - keeping backward compatibility
  • added new hotkey type: get node(s) path(s) (tree or list)
  • added new setting, "JSON"/"Always write arrays as multiline in generated JSON"
Latest comments
TheCommentWriter on 2014-06-03 09:56

Nice tool. Should accept copy&pasted JSON-Data too.
Would be even better, if it could produce JSON classes for C#, VB.NET from the JSON data.

jamesmalvi on 2014-11-27 08:29

I would suggest to use online json viewer http://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer

billon on 2017-05-04 01:56

There is also UTF-8 branch - http://tomeko.net/software/JSONedit/testing.php

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WikidPad v2.2

Midas on 8 Apr 2018
  • 22MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Feb 2014
  • Suggested by Fabio Maione

WikidPad is a notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts etc. It allows you to easily cross-link the information entered by using "WikiWords" or mixed-case word typed into the editor (e.g. TodoList or JohnDoe).

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVCR71.DLL
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Apache
How to extract:
  1. Download and run the installer
  2. When prompted, choose Portable installation and specify a folder that:
    • Consists completely of ASCII-characters, this means only 'a' to 'z' letters, lower or upper case, digits, and punctuation characters like underscore, dot and comma (e.g. "wikidpad")
    • Does not require administrator rights to access
  3. Launch WikidPad.exe
What's new? Official changelog now at https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad/releases.
Latest comments
Emka on 2011-04-18 15:34

Latest stable version is 2.0_1, a release candidate for 2.1 and a beta for 2.2 are also available. Does extraction still work and make it portable?

Midas on 2014-03-06 15:42

The difference between (Uni)extraction and choosing portable with the installer is mainly the creation of an 'export' sub-folder and a 'binInst.ini' with the following content:

[Main]
CurrVersion=002.002.300.000
wxVersion=002.008.010.001
portableInstall=1

shnbwmn on 2018-04-08 01:38

It's true, "Trying it is adopting it!"

I finally got down to using this for interlinked notes and now I can't imagine going back to anything else. What really sets it apart is the on-the-fly nature of editing. OutWiker is a bit more advanced but it's tedious in comparison.

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Firstobject XML Editor v2.4.2

webfork on 7 May 2015
  • 992KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Cornflower

Firstobject XML Editor (or "Foxe") loads multi-megabyte files quickly and lets you format and edit HTML, or any other loosely formed markup language such as XML. The tree view is customizable for useful navigation.

Other features include syntax coloring, word wrap, Go To Line, show XML path, Microsoft global IME, and MSXML based DTD validation.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, unable to deal with Unicode filenames.
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch foxe.exe.

Go to "Tools" --> "Preference" to select a location to store settings.
What's new?
  • filename first in foxe title bar
  • -run on command line arguments
  • period for data value in tree customization
  • foal: increased the size limit on num
  • foal: CMarkup updates
  • foal: fix for file read mode *Thank you Aditya Raut!
  • foal: StrTrim with optional flag 1=left, 2=right
  • Watch mode in the View menu
  • Watch file extensions in Preferences
Latest comments
CodesAway on 2010-07-03 05:00

Version 2.4.1.416 was released today. The version stays 2.4.1, but the build is 416, versus 404, which was the previous build.

olliebean on 2013-10-26 17:51

The current version of this (v2.4.2.431) isn't stealth; it leaves a bunch of registry keys (albeit all empty) at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\First Objective Software\foxe.

I am Baas on 2013-10-27 00:54

@olliebean
Firstobject XML Editor is stealth. Did you select "Executable Folder" for settings location (under preferences)?

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CSV Buddy v3.0

lwc on 22 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by JnLlnd

CSV Buddy adds additional functionality to the widely-supported basic spreadsheets known as Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files. The program allows the edition of a variety of formats, import/export, reorder, merge and more. Tasks can be automated with scripting commands.

Works with comma-delimited, tab-delimited and other CSV-type files. A 64-bit version is included. Written using AutoHotKey.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes. Unicode support in 64-bit version.
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CSVBuddy-x_x-32-bit.exe or CSVBuddy-x_x-64-bit.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CSVFileView
What's new?
  • User interface improved with configurable fonts, screen scaling support
  • Automate tasks with scripting commands
  • Merge existing fields in new fields at load time or with the user interface

Gwennel Doc v0.15

billon on 29 May 2018
  • 359KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2013
  • Suggested by Cornflower

Gwennel is a lightweight word processor that takes an innovative approach to formatting options by separating them into a tree-like structure. This is useful for handling long documents with clear, organized formatting tools or for users who wish to focus on the text first and formatting second. Any style changes (such as headings, lists, or colors) are propagated throughout the entire document and, although only able to open and save OpenDocument (.odt) files, this makes the program a capable WYSIWYG editor. Additionally, users can open existing files and make rapid changes to the entire document.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gwennel.exe.
What's new?
  • New Feature: basic find command.
  • Bug fix: use the text color of paragraph for bullets.
  • The executable is no longer packed with UPX because of all those crappy antivirus.
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2010-07-30 13:50

It is not at all intuitive, but once you play with it a bit, It comes together.
I probably won't use it on my own computers where Open Office Portable is much handier, but as I like to keep my usb key light, I keep it there. Hint: go over your Open Office documents and see what styles you like to use, and update the openoffice-style.gwen template. I found this makes it more user friendly, as I am dealing with my own tastes.

tpig on 2011-03-12 06:57

I've tested it. I does support Unicode.

Midas on 2014-12-07 21:45

See also Gwennel Web: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12395 ...

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Decimal BASIC v7.8.5.6

billon on 13 Oct 2020

Decimal BASIC provides a full programming environment for the BASIC programming language. It implements almost all of the core module and the graphics module of ISO Full BASIC, which is the current international standard for BASIC. It comes with a built-in editor and debugger.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BASIC.EXE.
What's new? See:
https://decimalbasic.ninja-web.net/EnglishWindows.htm
Latest comments
Update please on 2011-06-02 16:44

Now at Version 7.5.4

Checker on 2011-06-02 20:57

Thanks and done ;)

thepiney on 2018-11-15 03:55

At Version 7.8.5 as of Jul.30, 2018

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CSVed v2.5.7

Ennovy on 7 Nov 2023
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Jun 2023
  • Suggested by NewKreation

CSVed is a fast, basic spreadsheet file editor that supports the CSV file format. You can add/delete columns, rearrange column order, change separator, filter items, remove duplicates, split/join columns etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the "without installer" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch CSVed.exe
  3. Select Tools, Portable to enable portable mode
Similar/alternative apps: CSVpad, CSV Buddy, CSVFileView
What's new?
  • e-mail and web address modified.
Latest comments
__philippe on 2020-07-17 15:24

CSVed v2.5.5 (released 17-JUL-20)

Yet another mismatch between developer-stated version and internal PE id-tags:

C:\>sigcheck -a -q csved.exe

Verified: Unsigned
Link date: 00:22 20/06/1992
Publisher: n/a
Company: OostWestThuisBest (OWTB)
Description: CSV file editor
Product: CSVeditor
Prod version: 2.5.4
File version: 2.5.4.0
MachineType: 32-bit
Binary Version: 2.5.4.0
Original Name: CSVed
Internal Name: n/a
Copyright: SJ Francke
Comments: geen
Entropy: 7.907

Plus ça change, et plus c'est la même chose...:-(

User2100 on 2023-11-09 13:55

Looks like a nice program, but the first CSV I loaded failed at linefeeds within quotes and treated those as new records, even though the developer site links to a CSV definition article that starts by saying it should be able to. Both excel and libreoffice did load the file correctly. Ah well.

__philippe on 2023-11-09 17:23

@user2100
Give a try instead to Nirsoft's CSVFileView https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2156
Fair warning: This might drive you to prove unfaithful to cranky old CSVed...;-)

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