Used by graphic designers, editors, and web designers to reduce text cleanup time.
Text Cleaner is the tool used by graphic designers, editors and web designers to reduce text cleanup time to seconds. Em and en dashes, smart quotes and ligatures are set or removed, unwanted spaces, tabs, returns are eliminated, and much more, making search-and-replace prep work a thing of the past. Works directly with QuarkXPress, InDesign, text files or copy/paste.Unlike search and replace, there's no need to perform tasks several times over. Click once and all cleaning functions are performed simultaneously and in the best possible sequence.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have used this utility for many years now, and with all the different flavors of text that get submitted for processing into properly-formatted layouts using Quark or other layout programs, it has saved <i>countless</i> hours of editing out those extra spaces, incorrectly used quotation marks and other unconventional characters that everyone likes to use so much. The modest fee for this updated (now running native on OS X) gem of a utility is recovered in just a few hours of billable time saved. The upgrade to run native on OS X has been eagerly awaited.
<p>Saving customized settings is simple and allows for consistent filtering of text files from different sources. More than 10 additional custom fields would be a benefit for a future update (rather than create a second custom setting).
<p>The rarely needed support was always available and promptly replied to.