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Bean
Version: 1.2 ||
Release Date: 2008-04-29 ||
License: GPL
Developer: James Hoover
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that features:
- a live word count
- a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- date-stamped backups
- autosaving
- a page layout mode
- an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- easy to use menus
- remembers cursor position (excluding .text, .html, and .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
Tags: word , processor , text , texteditor
Opinions:
Too bad that doesn't support .odt documents.
However, pretty and light. Hope that it will support .odt and will be usable with Lepard AND Tiger.
Too bad that doesn't support .odt documents.
However, pretty and light. Hope that it will support .odt and will be usable with Lepard AND Tiger.
Confirmed working well with Opentype fonts w/ ligatures/stylistic alternates.
achhh this is such a nice little word processor, but why won't it save the zoom setting or window size/position!?
Lean and fast. Not a real alternative to OpenOffice/NeoOffice though. Looking forward to OpenDocument support.
Wrong icon, here is the real/new one: http://suffren.org/files/beanapp.png
Excellent replacement for Textedit. Two days using it and I am sold. Just enough features to make editing easy, without cluttering up the interface like a bulky word processor. I especially appreciate:
- Alternate text colors (e.g. Green on Black)
- Zoom slider at the bottom of the window
- Multi-color highlighting of text
- Fast/Free
Perfect app for taking notes, writing drafts, then transferring to a more complex app for layout. I'll never use TextEdit again. Thanks, Bean!
More than TextEdit, less than MS Word, and it has an intuitive and pretty design:
The perfect text app!
Wow, this is pretty awesome! And open source to boot!
Cool little app.
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