TextSoap 6

TextSoap 6 requires OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
TextSoap 6.4 or later is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Version 6.4.3 (790)

• Fixed bug where Automator actions would not work correctly under 64-bit Automator.

Version 6.4.2 (789)

• Textual Find/Replace: added support for \v meta-character for vertical tab character (0x0b).
• Textual Find/Replace: if character following \ is not a meta-character, it just becomes the character. Thus, \$ becomes $.
• Text now remains unchanged if an error occurs during "Run Automator Workflow" action.
• Logs any error encountered during "Run Automator Workflow" action.
• Other miscellaneous fixes.

Version 6.4.1 (785)

• Added workaround for bug in Apple Mail that gives black on black text when Services are used.
• Added additional support for filetype with .csv extension.
• Added additional logging to track unexpected UTI types when saving plain text files.
• Fixed potenial crash when converting some rich text files to plain text.

Version 6.4 (778)

• Added option to Clean Text Files Automator Action to specify a destination folder (relative to the original file) for the processed file.
• Added option to Clean Text Files Automator Action to specify either a prefix or suffix to the processed file's name.
• Because files are now copied by default, there is no longer a warning when adding Clean Text Files action to your workflow.
• Markdown cleaner is up to 60x faster than previous versions.
• Using an Automator workflow within a cleaner could cause a crash under some circumstances.
• Tweaked textsoapAgent batch file cleaner to provide a more liberal text type match.
• Markdown cleaner could fail and cause all future uses of the cleaner that called it to fail.
• Reverted Services handling code tweaks.
• BBEdit Palette now has a new preference option to always load on BBEdit startup.

• GetTextSoapText/SetTextSoapText actions were removed.

  The mechanims for calling using workflows inside a custom cleaner changed starting in v6.3 and these two actions became obsolete. Both actions simply remained as placeholders to allow users time to remove them.

Version 6.3.5 (760)

• Improves removing older services items
• Allows saving text files with other extensions.
• Renamed custom cleaner action from "Tag Text based on Style" to "Find Style and Tag Text"

Version 6.3.4 (757)

• Addressed scripting definition error that caused lockup under some situations.

Version 6.3.3 (756)

[Bug Fixes]

• Running an Automator workflow from within a custom cleaner is more robust in handling results from the workflow.
• Fixed issue where in some cases, the Coda plugin caused an exception.
• Some text quoting options could lose some original characters at the end of the text
• Addressed "DockTile in use" error that can occurs when emptying trash with app in it. The solution only addresses removing 6.3.3 and later. Note: The issue may still occur when removing previous (6.3.x) releases. A restart may be required to allow trash to be emptied if you encounter this error.

Version 6.3.2 (751)

[Bug Fixes]

• Addresses problem with BBEdit plugin under BBEdit 9.3.

Version 6.3.1 (750)

[Bug Fixes]

• XML documents would not open correctly under Snow Leopard.
• Other text documents might not open correctly under Snow Leopard.
• Under Snow Leopard, disables deprecated Scripting Addition when updating.
• Scripting Addition plugin moved to the plugin list.
• Removed deprecated warnings in console under Snow Leopard.
• Additional tweaks for Snow Leopard were made.

Version 6.3 (745)

[New Features]

• Snow Leopard compatibility
• New scripting command: makePlainPasteboard allows you to strip style information from the specified pasteboard. If no name is specified, will strip style information from main clipboard.

[Snow Leopard Support]

• Automator actions (in general)

  TextSoap Automator actions have been updated to support 64-bit + Garbage collection. This is a new requirement in Snow Leopard's Automator. Earlier versions of TextSoap's automator actions will not work under Snow Leopard. The new actions will also work under Leopard (10.5).

• GetTextSoapText/SetTextSoapText Automator actions

  When using an Automator workfow inside of a custom cleaner, the workflow's initial input is the text to work with and its final output is returned to the custom cleaner for continued processing. These two actions are no longer needed in TextSoap 6.3 and now just return the input unchanged. You can remove these actions from any workflows called from within a custom cleaner.

• The Scripting Addition

  The Scripting Addition commands are deprecated. Use the textsoapAgent scripting instead. textsoapAgent scripting has been available since 6.1, with some minor additions in 6.2 and 6.3.

• The Contextual Menu Module

• Eudora plug-in

  These two technologies plugins are deprecated. The improved OS X Services support in Snow Leopard will replace the need for Contextual Menu Modules (CMMs) and Eudora app plug-in. Apple does not support CMMs in 64-bit apps. You can still use them in apps running in 32-bit mode (via Finder's Get Info). The Eudora plugin is also being deprecated. It relies on the a much older binary format (CFM) which has become more difficult to support with each passing year.

  Both these implementations will be superseded with the OS X Services, which will contineu to offer similar functionalty.

• OS X Services

  Under 10.6, Service names no longer are prefixed with numbers to maintain order. Under 10.6, The "Push Services to the top of OS X Services menu" option is hidden as it no longer applies.

  Under 10.6, it is recommended that you limit the items in a group as it will clutter up the Services menu if you have 20 or 30 items in it. For best results, select 5-10 common cleaners. You can easily change groups in the app's preferences if you need more.

  TextSoap 6.3 will display a cautionary note at the bottom of the preference panel if you have more than 10 items in the group associated with Services.

  Once TextSoap 6.3 has updated your service items (on first launch under 10.6), OS X Services should work without issue.

• Note: There are several references to features/implementations being deprecated. What does that mean for you? Right now, not much. Nothing changes for TextSoap 6. The deprecated notation just services as a notification that those features / implementations will not be carried forward in the future (such as a new major version).

[Other Changes]

• Trial limit warning alert displays less frequently.
• During trial, users can now process up to 3K of text at a time (previously 1K).
• TextSoap now uses the Automator framework directly to handle a workflow action (vs. using the command line in the background). This should improve performance for such actions.

Version 6.2.2 (735)

[Bug Fixes]

• OS X Services now supports processing rich text with attachments (images).
• New Agent Scripting commands no longer mismapped through the Scripting Addition, caused several issues.
• tsPickCleaner was incorrectly using older dialog.
• Additional Support Options - added option to force reset application (re-installs all various plugin components)
• Remove Style from Text no longer sets a Font and color of the text, resorting to default values from your editor.
• Removed incorrect hexadecimal code syntax reference from Regular Expression Help.
• Changing zoom could cause a problem under some circumstances.
• Find Dialog's Ignore case option now correctly works when searching with regular expressions.
• Fixed issue where some rich text formatting could prevent text from being processed.

Version 6.2.1 (730)

• Clipboard workspace border style option. Find it under General Preferences: Dark, Medium, Plain.
• Text, including scaled text, now wraps to the window (ie. no more horizontal scrollbars).
• Combined Ask a Question, Report a bug, Send Feedback men items into a single "Send Feedback" menu item under Help.
• Fewer 1K limit alerts, esp. on heavy usage of cleaners during trial.
• The custom cleaner editor no longer limits some of actions you could use during trial mode.

Version 6.2 (725)

[New Features]

• Entourage 2008 Script (Preferenes > Plugins). Installs into your scripts menu in Entourage 2008.
• New Cleaner: Smarten Quotes in HTML Text - applies smartens quotes to text in an HTML file, ignoring quotes within tags.
• New cleanPasteboard script command, a more flexible command allows you to optionally specify which pasteboard to work with.
• New preference to increase size of recently used menu list

[Bug Fixes]

• BBEdit palette did not disable group popup menu when textsoapAgent was not available
• BBEdit palette did not update when textsoapAgent is launched or changed

[Other Changes]

• pickCleaner scripting command now has a keyboard friendly interface (no mouse needed). cmd-G to access groups, tab between list & filter field, cmd-. to cancel, return accept
• Check for updates now defaults to on for all new users
• BBEdit palette height is now limited to 4096 pixels (vs. previous 800)

Version 6.1 (700)

[New Features]

• Make Paragraphs cleaner now keeps most repeating character separator lines
• Make Rich/Plain Text menu item toggles clipboard and text documents between rich format and plain format
• General Preference option to disable warning when switching from rich to plain text

• Added scripting commands to textsoapAgent. These new commands offer easy access to the new agent via AppleScript, making it easy to tightly integrate TextSoap into any app that supports AppleScript.

  Use: tell application "textsoapAgent"

  • groupNames returns a list of groups (limit to "all"/"built-in"/"user")
  • groupItems from "name" returns cleaners from name group (as tokens yes/no)
  • tokenizeCleanerName "name" returns the internal token of the cleaner (if found)
  • textualizeCleanerToken "token" returns the human readable name of the token (if possible)
  • cleanClipboard with "cleaner name" applies cleaner to clipboard contents
  • cleanText "Text" with "Cleaner" applies cleaner to "Text"
  • textEncodingList (returns a list of text encodings available)
  • isValidTextEncoding "encoding name" (returns whether provided name is considered a valid text encoding)
  • cleanFile file with "Cleaner" supports rtf, rtfd, text
    • optional parameters readEncoding, writeEncoding for plain text files lets caller specify text encoding, like "Unicode (UTF8)"
    • optional parameter extensions ("markdown plist") used to recognize files with those extensions even if they don't match support text type. Files are considered plain text.

• Automator Action "Clean Text Files" now supports defining encoding for both read and write and providing list of extensions for files to allow (as plain text) as well as known text formats.

• Speak Text toolbar button added. Click to start speaking, Opt-Click to stop speaking.
• Custom Cleaner Action - Extract # of characters from beginning of text (think LEFT$)
• Custom Cleaner Action - Extract # of characters from end of text (think RIGHT$)
• Custom Cleaner Action - Extract # of characters from middle of text (think MID$)
• Custom Cleaner Action - Convert Rich Text Hyperlinks to Text using user-specified pattern
• Additional built-in groups (:Case Conversion, :Email, :Quoting, :Markdown) added

[Bug Fixes]

• Custom Cleaner Editor now keeps last selection between launches
• tsCleanClipboard now handles Human readable cleaner names better. Left in for compatibility. Use textsoapAgent scripting.
• Bulk Find/Replace action layout problem (bug introduced in 6.1b3).
• EOL popup for plain text clipboard and documents.
• When a custom cleaner is deleted, it is now also removed from any group that contained it.
• Using older mechanism to specify Services to better support Carbon apps like Eudora and Mariner Write.
• Fixed a problem where Services might not work in some cases. May require log out/in to take effect after TextSoap components are updated.
• Selecting a cleaner while in compact view in BBEdit palette would not correctly apply cleaner.
• In Group Editor, adding or removing group would change selection to first MyList group.
• In Group Editor, removing last item from group would move selection to first item.
• Capitalize with Title Case could fail to work with ALL CAPS text.
• A badly formed regular expression in the Find Dialog could cause application to freeze up.
• Find Dialog would sometimes fail for options other than "Contains" in Textual Mode.
• Find Dialog would not match some valid regular expression finds if textual option "Contains" was not previously selected.
• Plugin options could be disabled due to old licensing restrictions under some circumstances.

[Other Changes]

• Contextual menu implementation for MSWord, Entourage, AppleWorks no longer requires Scripting Addition be installed.
• SCRUB cleaner now also uses new Make Paragraphs to support repeating character separator lines
• Displays image of action when dragging actions into custom cleaner editor work area
• Improved animation when reordering actions in custom cleaner editor
• Group popup menu is now a pull down menu
• End of Line option is now a popup for plain text
• End of Line indicator is disabled (rather than hidden) in Rich Text mode
• Made Rich/Plain Text action undoable
• Show Ruler preference is used when "making rich text" to determine if should show ruler
• Pasting in Custom Cleaner Editor now pastes actions after current selection or at the end if no selection.
• textsoapAgent has a new bundleIdentifier (com.unmarked.textsoap.agent)
• com.unmarked.textsoap.helper.plist is automatically renamed to com.unmarked.textsoap.agent.plist to maintain any prefs.
• tsGetCleanerList removed from Scripting Addition. It was never implemented and is superseded by textsoapAgent scripting.
• tsPickCleaner AppleScript command updated to use new palette design. Left in for compatibility. Use textsoapAgent scripting.
• tsPickCleaner AppleScript command sets focus to front app when finished
• Title Case now included in ":Standard" group.
• Reordered some of the items in the Help menu.
• Removed newsfeed option Help Menu & Preferences.
• Updated online help. A few more topics including scripting textsoapAgent.

Version 6.0.2 (648)

[New Features]

• Added HTML: Tag Strong cleaner
• Added HTML: Tag Emphasized cleaner

Version 6.0.1 (647)

[New Features]

• Clipboard Workspace Show Statistics state remains persistent between launches
• Clipboard Workspace Show Invisibles state remains persistent between launches
• Non-breaking space is now displayed as a separate invisible character when Show Invisibles is set.
• Word Count and Show Invisibles buttons now reflect their state.
• Reduced console logging, new option enables previous, more verbose, logging.
• Added show word count option for "New Documents" preferences.
• Build release notes are now displayed with Help menu option.
• Extras Preference Tab
  • Set color of invisibles
  • Make toolbar items grayscale
  • Quit textsoapAgent when App quits.

[Bug Fixes]

• Bulk Action add and remove button images were removed in 640.
• Adding an action would cause a scroll to top of action list.
• App would check for news even if option was not selected in preference.
• App would not recognize some textSOAP 3 serial numbers.
• Agent would incorrectly limit the cleaners available to plugins.
• "Check for updates" would include beta releases even when preference option was unselected.
• BBEdit palette would initially flash in upper left corner before moving to its last size and position.
• Left in debug-only option that kept find/replace action from working as expected.

[Other Changes]

• BBEdit palette close button now enalbled and works as expected (thanks to Jim Correia at Bare Bones Software)
• Updated the word count display for the clipboard workspace.
• Updated Coda plug-in to work with Coda 1.6. Plugin now requires 1.6 or later.

Version 6.0 (629)

[Bug Fixes]

• URL problem with the web store caused a web store slow down.
• Some plugins would sometimes not get installed.
• Problem where the license wasn't sticking after it was entered.
• Bug in textsoapAgent that could cause a runtime error and prevent it from successfully launching.
• Bug in textsoapAgent could cause a runtime error and prevent it from successfully launching.
• A build problem prevented runtime error fix from being included in last build (628).
• When entering in license information, avoids accepting a bad license that keeps user in trial mode.
• BBEdit plug-in
  • Correctly responds to init message.
  • Keeps hidden window synced with palette as much as possible.
  • Disabled close button (use Tools menu to toggle) on palette for compatibility.

[Other Changes]

• Renamed "Contextual Menu" to "Shortcut Menu" in Plugin preferences.
• The updater code now uses build numbers to indicate version changes. This should allow for easier updating even within the same official version.
• Changed how app resets the agent when a license# is updated.
• Now uses license #'s instead of license files. TextSoap 5.8 will be able to recognize these license #'s for non-Leopard users.
• Added License dialog which allows editing and clearing of license #.
• About dialog tweaked (since License dialog does heavy lifting)

Version 6.0 (620)

[New Features]

• Text zooming from 125%-800%
• Cleaners are now attached to each window, providing better access
• Word count is now per window, shows count for entire document or selection
• Grammar Check support added
• Command-\ toggles between editor and cleaner palette search.
• New in Group Editor
  • Colorize cleaner names or labels
  • Re-order groups in popup

• New Custom Cleaner Editor

  • Single window design
  • Quick reference for Regular expression help
  • One click preview lets you easily test your cleaner
  • Support for Subroutines (conditional cleaning)
  • Cut, Copy, Paste actions between cleaners
  • Collapse actions
  • Add notes to individual actions
  • Apply action titles now show cleaner names
  • Two export options: Drag cleaner item from list or click export
  • Sort custom cleaners option added
  • Toggle action descriptions
  • Filter on action names or descriptions

• New and Improved Actions

  • All Find and Replace actions now support Starts With, Ends With, Whole Words for textual finds
  • Bulk Find and Replace simplifies multiple find and replace tasks.
  • Title Case with Options

• New and Improved Cleaners

  • Capitalize with Title Case
  • Internet Friendly cleaner now converts em-dashes and en-dashes.

• Plugins

  • BBEdit, TextWrangler plugin now support colorized text in palette
  • Shortcut plugin now tries to preserve formatting with MSWord when possible
  • Added option to place OS X Services at the top of Services menu
  • New Automator Action "Clean Text Files" adds support for cleaning Text, RTF, RTFD files
  • Improved MSWord support, tries to keep formatting when possible

TextSoap 5

TextSoap 5 requires OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4

Version 5.8.2 (530)

• [Fixed] Better at finding and quitting textsoapAgent.
• [Fixed] Would check for news even if user deselected option in preference.

Version 5.8.1 (526)

• [Fixed] Under some circumstances, the license would not hold.

Version 5.8 (524)

• [Change] Recognizes TextSoap 6 licenses.
• [Change] Supports switching between TextSoap 5 and TextSoap 6.
• [Change] Supports shutting down TextSoap 6 agent (helper app).
• [Fixed] Changed reading/writing of license file to support TextSoap 6.
• [Fixed] Work around for Leopard OS X Services bug. To take affect, you will need to uncheck the Services item in Preferences to uninstall it, then re-check it again to install it.

Version 5.7.3 (514)

• [Fixed] Toolbar print icon did not work for clipboard workspace.
• [Fixed] In some cases, purchasing within the app would not reset the engine, keeping it in trial mode.
• [Change] BBEdit tool palette redesigned to allow for very compact display.
• [New] New cleaner to remove background color from text

Version 5.7.2 (510)

• [Fixed] Addressed problems related to purchases inside the product. Purchase engine would not install on some systems, not allowing users to buy the upgrade.
• [Fixed] When upgrading under certain conditions, the app would not pick up the new serial number without user intervention.

Version 5.7.1 (507)

• Fixed a bug that caused the helper app to hang if a cleaner token listed in the MyList group could not be found. Note: In some cases, you may need to log out/in or restart to clear out the problem.
• Fixed a potential memory crash issue in displaying the contextual menu.
• Fixed a bug related to processing upgrades. In some cases, the upgrade store would not come up after validating your previous serial number.
• Includes Leopard Quick Look support for saved custom cleaners.

Version 5.7 (500)

• Version 5.7 is now Leopard ready.
• New Deluxe features:
  
  
  • Updated BBEdit plug-in with compact mode, allowing all the features of TextSoap with a minimum palette.
  • Add three new and very useful cleaners supporting the Markdown syntax.
  • Added a new plug-in for Coda. Note: This plug-in is still considered preliminary.


• Invisible characters did not display correctly under some systems.
• In some cases, TextSoap would now show up in some Contextual Menus.
• Double-clicking on custom cleaner in Finder did not always allow editing of the cleaner.
• Extract Text from HTML Source cleaner didn't always work as expected.
• In rare instances, setting up the clipboard workspace on launch caused a runtime exception and disable some core features as a result.
• Setting the CleanKeys item (in Prefs) to "None" did not properly clear the menu/hot key.
• When a CleanKey item was set to a custom cleaner, it would not show up correctly in the menu.
• TextSoap would sometimes not recognize a valid license, particularly under 10.4.10 or later.
• Sparkle update would sometimes not recognize a specific type of version number change.

Version 5.6.1

• Additions:
  • Three new cleaners (Set Line Spacing) allow changing the line spacing of paragraphs to single, 1.5, or double.
• Fixes:
  • HTML Entity cleaners were not handling " correctly.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause TextSoap to not properly launch its helperApp, especially on newer systems.

Version 5.6

• Additions:
  • Users can now temporarily reduce the number of cleaners shown in the custom cleaners using a name filter.
  • New preference to allows access to future beta releases.
  • Deluxe: "Show Statistics with Growl" cleaner. If user has Growl installed, will calculate the statistics of the selected text and use Growl to display it. Use it in connection with OS X Services shortcut to provide instant statistics in any app tha supports Services.
  • Deluxe: Two new Automator actions and a new custom cleaner action allow you to use automator workflows within a custom cleaner.
• Changes:
  • Plug-in Preferences now separates out CMM and AppleScript plug-ins from Application-specific plug-ins. CMM popup menu for contextual menu option is now more closely associated with install Contextual Menu option.
  • OS X Services and Plug-in preferences now have an "Edit Groups" button (pencil) next to the group pop-up menu for easier access to editing groups.
  • On launch, if MyList Group is empty, application now resets the group based on Standard Group.
• Fixes:
  • Some purchasing issues under Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Find multiple occurrences action did not always work with some characters.
  • Cleaner Palette did not update when changing a group if user typed in filter field.
  • Smart Palette would sometimes fade out when user wanted to type in the filter field.
  • Apple Default Paragraph Spacing was not always available.
  • Lingering problems with Clipboard workspace scrolling on PPC Macs.
  • Auto update of installed plug-ins did not update BBEdit CFM plug-in.
  • Preference update installed plug-ins did not update BBEdit CFM plug-in.
  • Cleaner Library list in MyScrub Preferences did not update when a custom cleaner was added or removed.
  • Specifying that you want to change the color of text but leaving the color as the default black would cause the option to be ignored.
  • BBEdit palette updated to reflect new changes.
  • Straighten Quotes recognizes more curly quote variations.
  • Within the custom cleaner editor, some of the newer actions would not update their values unless user explicitly tabbed out of the field or hit enter, causing them to be lost on save.
  • CMM did not correctly handle label display within a contextual menu.

Version 5.5.3

• Additions:
  • Special cleaner "Apply Default Paragraph Spacing" strips away paragraph spacing, reverting paragraphs back to default spacing.
• Fixes:
  • Problems under 10.3.9 when adding/removing cleaners to/from groups or MyScrub preference.
  • Better recognition of UTF-16 text files.
  • If contextual menu group was empty, TextSoap 5 submenu item was still added to contextual menu
  • Clipboard workspace nib corruption caused scrollwheel and scroll arrows to stop working on PPC Macs.
  • Cleaner Library list in MyScrub Preferences included MyScrub and Separator, which don't make sense in this context.
  • First field on entering serial number did not get focus.
  • Smart Palette could lose its correct state when a sheet was brought up, causing it to incorrectly become active.
  • Smart Palette did not fade when customize toolbar sheet was opened.
  • Auto Copy/Paste feature did not support Rich text with graphics on the clipboard.

Version 5.5.2

• Additions:
  • Support for cleaning rich text with embedded graphics/attachments.
  • Ability to disable individual actions within a custom cleaner.
  • Ability to install custom cleaners from the internet.
  • Preliminary plug-in support for Mailsmith 2.2 beta.
• Changes:
  • Dragging file now inserts graphics into text stream, instead of trying to open it as a separate file. Most text files will open in new windows, but user can force insertion: via command-key (or to suppress insertion via option-key) while dropping file onto a TextSoap window.
  • Custom Cleaners can now be deleted from within the application.
  • Custom Cleaner Window list entries can now be resized.
  • Now uses Sparkle framework for easier updates to Application.
  • Product related news and announcements now uses a newsfeed.
• Fixes:
  • Library list in Cleaner Groups window didn't update when new custom cleaner was created.
  • Applescript command didn't translate human readable cleaner name to its underlying token, causing it not to excecute.
  • OS X would sometimes treat TextSoap as the main editor for MSWord (.doc) files.

Version 5.5.1

• Fixes:
  • Search field wouldn't filter library of cleaners in CleanKeys preferences.
  • Statistics "Characters (no spaces)" and "Characters (with spaces)" values were reversed.
  • Custom Cleaner Editor would not open in 10.3.9 due to a spurious 10.4 call.
  • BBEdit plug-in Undo name was out of sync (it was always one action behind).
  • BBEdit plug-in didn't always setup undo for cleaner action.
  • BBEdit plug-in could get confused as to cleaners available under Mailsmith.
  • Insert Text Action could hang in some cases if text field wasn't properly saved with action.
  • Rich Text with Attachments (RTFD) would not include attachments when saved.

Version 5.5

• Additions:
  • New icons for toolbar, preferences.
  • Added key equivalents to edit cleaners, edit groups, and create a new custom cleaner.
  • Deluxe only:
    • Labels can now be added inside a group for better organization.
    • CleanKeys feature allows you to assign cleaners to cmd-1 through cmd-9 keys for even quicker access.
    • New Action: Set Style allows you to change the style of text, including font, face, and color.
    • New Action: Extract text allows you to extract specific text based on a regular expression.
    • New Action: Find Text and Apply Style allows you to find text (opt. with regex) and then apply style attributes to that found text. Includes the option to make relative font size changes.
    • New Action: Find a Style allows you to search for a given font, size or face attribute and then apply a cleaner to that text.
    • New Action: Tag Text based on Style allows you to find text of a given style and apply a tag text action.
    • New Action: Find Text and Apply Cleaner allows you to find text (opt. with regex) and then apply a cleaner to that text.
• Changes:
  • Improved handling of inivisble characters with some paragraph settings
  • Improved organization of preferences. OS X Service options are all in one section, contextual menu options moved to plug-in section.
  • Improvements to the custom cleaner editor.
  • Editing groups is now non-modal.
  • Advanced preference options are now available for all editions.
  • Improved word count feature. Statistics are now modeless and offer on the fly calculations of documents. Optionally select text and get statistics on the selected text.
  • Change: cmd-0 (zero) now applies MyScrub cleaner (was cmd-K).

Version 5.0r3

• Fixed a problem that could cause OS X Service shortcut keys to not be accepted.
• Fixed a problem where entering a key shortcut in preferences could confuse the state of the cleaner palette, not allowing users to access it without a relaunch.
• The tsCleanFile AppleScript command now preserves the encoding on the text file (Requires OS X 10.4 or later).
• BBEdit plug-in now explicitly states when group is empty.
• Improved support for BBEdit 8.5
• Updated support libraries

Version 5.0r2

• Fixed: Eudora plug-in would not initialize correctly on some machines.
• Fixed: BBEdit plug-in could sometimes start up with the Custom Group, which could be empty (if you don't have any custom cleaners) and cause problems with the palette.
• Fixed: Regular Expressions in custom cleaners had some additional issues with expressions that dealt with beginning of line, end of line.
• Fixed: Clipboard Workspace window scroll arrows did not work correctly.
• Fixed: Toolbar did not always draw correctly when clipboard workspace became inactive.
• Fixed: Installation of purchase engine no longer leaves temporary files.
• Fixed: When using filter to limit cleaners on the palette, TextSoap could sometimes apply the wrong cleaner.
• Fixed: Undo did not work properly if using plain text Clipboard Workspace.
• Fixed: TextSoap could not read and write Rich Text files which contained Graphics (RTFD).

• Changed: Online Help and User Manual updated to relfect interface changes.

• Added: Can now set Key Equivalents for Service Menu Items.
• Added: Clipboard Workspace text can now be printed directly.
• Added: Text to Named HTML Entity (Alt) cleaner also converts <, >, and & symbols.
• Added: Can now use '\s' to specify spaces in Find dialog and custom cleaners.
• Added: Clipboard Workspace skins enhanced. Defaults to a newer, more modern look.
  Original wood and metal options remain available.

Version 5.0r1

• Fixed: App could get stuck in Trial mode even after it was registered.
• Fixed: App would not always update library list and custom to reflect changes in Custom Cleaners.
• Fixed: HTML Entity cleaners were being too agressive.
• Fixed: BBEdit plug-in sometimes crashed when BBEdit started.
• Fixed: BBEdit plug-in did not always remember its visible state.
• Fixed: BBEdit plug-in could not be resized.
• Fixed; Eudora plug-in would not always show the cleaners available.
• Fixed: Contextual menus could hang under some Carbon apps.
• Fixed: Contextual menus did not update when user selected a new group to base the menu on (in preferences).
• Fixed: OS X Services did not update when user selected a new group to base the menu on (in preferences).
• Fixed: OS X Services did not update when user changed the definition of a cleaner group that Services were based on.
• Fixed: Clipboard Workspace did not save "Show Ruler" state between launches.
• Fixed: Clipboard Workspace did not save "Show Invisibles" state between launches.
• Fixed: Clipboard Workspace did not have a toolbar associated with it.
• Fixed: Clipboard workspace borders are smaller.
• Fixed: Newly saved custom cleaners did not always show up in custom cleaner window until next launch.
• Fixed: Custom cleaner editor did not correctly mark document as changed when the contents changed.
• Fixed: Library Group did not always update when custom cleaners were added or removed.
• Fixed: Custom cleaner editor did not correctly scroll the cleaner actions.
• Fixed: Regular expressions better handle beginning of line, end of line tokens in both app and custom cleaners.
• Added: Default Plain text font is now used when opening existing plain text files, not just new files.
• Added: Default Plain text font for New Documents is also used for Plain Text Clipboard Workspace.
• Added: App checks for and offers to remove older TextSoap 4 components.
• Added: Preference option to change presentation of clipboard workspace as Wood, Gray, Metal, or Plain (None).
• Added: Clipboard workspace window now has a toolbar.

Version 5.0

• Universal Binary support
• New Cleaner Palette
  • One-click buttons
  • Spacers to separate cleaners within a group
  • Filter on cleaner names
  • Tooltips offer complete descriptions of each cleaner
  • Use Custom Groups to organize cleaners by task or job (Deluxe)
  • Exclusive Smart Palette™ technology keeps the cleaner palette out of the way when not needed
• New Clipboard Workspace
• Line-ending popup menu for Clipboard Workspace
• Line-ending popup menu for Documents
• Improved Automator Action
• Improved OS X Services Support
• Regular Expression support in custom cleaners
• Improved support for Styled Text
• Streamlined Interface
• New Custom Cleaner Editor
• Shareable Custom Cleaners
• Improved MyScrub feature and interface
• Improved support for finding repeatable characters
• Support for new TAG custom cleaner action
• Improved SCRUB handles dashed line separators better
• New: HTML Tag cleaners
• New: PLIST Tag cleaners
• New: Sort lines cleaner
• Deluxe Only features
  
  • Custom Groups
  • New BBEdit plug-in
  • New Eudora plug-in
  • Applescript Scripting Addition
  • Contextual Menu Support
  • Ability to specify group to use for contextual menu
  • Ability to specify group to use for OS X Services
  • Line-oriented cleaning options for custom cleaners
  • Improved automatic Plug-in manager simplifies dealing with plug-ins
  • Regular Expression support in interactive find/replace