3577 Do you ever wish you had a small, fast, simple word processor that has the TextEdit basics and just a few more important features - page numbers, columns, header/footer, footnotes - for manuscript writing? And how about a bookmark feature for effortless, lightning-quick navigation of your manuscript? You might like enjoying a variety of .epub public domain eBooks?

Try iText Express Ver: 3.4, written by: Michiaki Yamashita.

iText Express is an intuitive, and refined text editor with some word processing features completely rewritten in Cocoa, and is suitable for both Power PC and Intel Macs.

iText Express shares features it LightWayText, giving good vibes by fully complying with Mac OS X and blending seamlessly into the OS X environment. It will continue to grow with the power of Mac OS X. iText Express perfectly covers every feature of TextEdit basics and Microsoft Word compatibility as well.

iText Express supports s header/footer, footnotes/endnotes, page layout and numbers, multiple columns, hyperlinks, lists, bullets, tables, bookmarks, customizable guidelines, background color, and vertical writing, and is easy to use. You can embed pictures, movies, and other files (e.g. other text files, spreadsheets, or PDF files) or entire applications within a document too. iText Express can also enhance the find features with the regular expression and also allows you to open .epub files in RTFD.

The English version contains Danish, Korean, and Japanese versions.

Comparing iText Express with iText

iText Express is all new, it is neither part of nor an alternative to iText that came before. iText Express is compatible with iText documents. You can see below some of the more advanced features in iText Express than in iText.

Advantages of iText Express;

• Read and write RTFD/DOC/HTML files


• Read .epub public domain eBooks in RTFD


• File Properties


• Multiple Selections/ Multiple Undoes


• Style copy & paste, and Ruler copy & paste


• Stamp Date and Time


• Footnotes and Endnotes


• Variety of options for editing; UPPERCASE, lowercase, Capitalize, Smart Copy/Paste, Smart Quotes, Smart Dash, Smart Links, Data Detectors, Text Replacement, and Show Substitutions


• Check and Correct Spelling and Grammar, as you type


• Correct Spelling Automatically


• Speech/ Complete Word


• Flexible style selections; Kerning, Ligatures, Baselines, Character Shapes, and Highlights


• Right to Left Text Input, and Vertical Writing Direction


• Tab Intervals


• Multiple Paragraph settings in Header/Footer


• Bullets and Numbering


• Easy to use Tables


• Customizable Guidelines


• Hyperlinks


• Powerful Find and Replace with OgreKit


• iText Express contains the English, the Danish, the Korean, and the Japanese versions.

iText brings you attractive features too; both iText and iText Express each have their appeal. iText will keep growing separately, and you will see the strengths and weaknesses of each. You are certain to welcome iText too, because of its biggest plus - an exceedingly high speed.

Comparing iText Pro '09 with iText Express

iText Pro '09 is included in the 'iText Express' package. You can try iText Pro '09 freely as well as iText Express. At first glance, you will surely find iText Pro '09 brings you more useful features and makes you happier. iText Pro '09 is fully compatible with iText Express documents.

Besides all the iText Express basics, the items shown below are the special additions to iText Express.

Advantages of iText Pro '09;

Compatibility;

• Allows you to save documents as the Styled Text files, besides RTFD/DOC/HTML.


• With the Styled Text files, iText Pro '09 and LightWayText are almost completely compatible with each other's documents, even including embedded pictures, bookmarks, columns, header, footer, vertical writing , and any sorts of layouts.


• Various extra commands for advanced editing;


• Change Case, Shift Right or left, Automatic Indent, Underline Cursor Indication, and Customizable Japanese-wrap.


• Multiple Clipboards


• Even faster File Search with the file browser


• Hierarchical bookmarks


• Extreme sensitive style selections;


• Ruby, Various Underlines / Strikethroughs / Highlights, Emphasis Dots, and Horizontally in Vertical


• Multiple Windows of the same file


• Indicates Line Numbers


• Helpful Alignment additions to arrange the lines for '.epub eBooks' viewing;


• Change Align Left to Justify / Change Justify to Align Left


• Variable Document Width to wrap lines;


• Fit lines into Window width or Page width, or Do not Wrap Lines not to accommodate lines to the window size.


• Customizable keyboard shortcuts


• Customizable Toolbar


• Customizable Templates

You can upgrade iText Express to iText Pro '09 with a new 'iText Pro' license, but a 'LightWayText' license covers both.

System Requirements:
Mac OS 10.3 onwards

For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/lightway/iText/iTextExpress/TryiTxtExp.html

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