iPassepartout for Mac User Reviews
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"Amazing timesaver!"
Version: iPassepartout 1.2.0
Pros
for those of us who have years of an organized files in various folders backup drives and partitions, this application's ability to quickly show you the contents of files generated from any number of applications is an incredible timesaver.
Cons
I'm sure I could think of one or 25 foot my mind to it, but it all the time that I have used Ipassepartout, I have not found it lacking in any features that I would consider essential.
Summary
There are dozens, if not hundreds of applications to allow you to search the content of files which have embedded ASCII text. If, however, you have PDF files that have not been optical character read, graphics, drawings, photographs, proprietary fax files and the like, the only way to determine the value of a given file is to put eyes on it. To make visual inspection viable, the application needs to resolve the images quickly and jump from one to the other, without delay. If you are in the trenches and having to sort through thousands to hundreds of thousands of files you need the power and stability of Ipassepartout. It never ceases to amaze me how you can find wonderful applications like this one for just a few dollars. I thoroughly resent the prices charged by companies like Apple, Adobe and others, whom we all know and love, but when somebody publishes a piece of software that saves me hours and hours of work and only charges me 20 or $30 for it, I feel like sending them a tip.
Though you probably won't have much need for contacting customer service on this application, a few days ago I lost my registration information and wrote an urgent requests at 4:00 in the morning. By 7:30 that same morning they solved my problem and got me back to work. they not only got me out of the jam but they were so polite about it too. If I chose to list out the 20 Mac utilities I wouldn't want to be without,Ipassepartout would definitely be on the last. -
"Expensive but good"
Version: iPassepartout 1.2.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Spotlight is inspired at best, but at worst, unreliable unpredictable and cluttered. Now more than ever there is a role for third party search apps that can better Spotlight in certain areas. There is some choice: Locator is good for instant straight filename searches, but depends on the locate database, which has its own issues. EasyFind is neat and reliable, but slow for filename searches and very slow for content searches. At least both these are free, whereas iPassepartout costs $35. What does it offer for that?
In brief: a clean uncluttered interface, speed, and excellent previews. For straight filename searches it beats Spotlight into a cocked hat: an unambiguous list of filenames containing or matching the search term appears in seconds. Items in the list can then be acted on in a number of ways: opened, revealed, trashed, removed from list etc.
iPassepartout will also do reasonably fast content searches in all the formats checked in its preferences. And all this without any dependency on an index.
The jewel in iPassepartoutâ??s crown however is that for many of the found items, a full size preview of the file content is shown when they are selected. Images are displayed to fit, Illustrator files are shown at full size but can be panned, and many text files are shown fully formatted or, if iP does not have access to the format, as text dumps. While these previews are iPâ??s major selling point, expanding the range of known formats is also where there is the greatest need for improvement. I also agree with other posters that search terms should be highlighted in text.
Finally, it amazes me that Softobe have sold any licenses at all, thanks to their absurd demo crippling system. It is quite impossible to test properly with the demo, but pester them for a limited-time license and you may well be hooked.
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