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Tofu

Tofu - 2.0a2

on-screen text reader, arranges text in columns

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All Time: (4.7)
This Version: (4.0)
Current Version: 2.0a2
Release Date: 2006-03-28
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 8,446
Downloads (all versions): 28,032

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Product Description:

Tofu is an novel application which addresses the problem that many people don't like reading text on the screen. It arranges text in columns, which allows fast text reading. Furthermore, it completely avoids vertical scrolling. You scroll from column to column horizontally, which makes the text feel more stable and easier to keep track of.

What's new in this version:

2.0a2:
  • Tofu is now a Universal Binary. If you have an Intel Mac, please let me know if it works for you.
  • Rewrote full-screen mode to show the menu bar and Dock (if you move your mouse over the edge) and to allow switching to other documents and applications. This means more than one document can be in full-screen mode at the same time. This hopefully also fixes crashes some people were experiencing.
  • Window resizing now snaps to quarters of a column width, to make fitting to columns easier.
  • Command-Equals can now be used to make text bigger.
2.0a1:
  • Added PDF support. This is having to guess where paragraph breaks are, so it may not work well for complex documents. Let me know if it works for you.
  • A spinning progress indicator is now shown in the top left corner while text is being laid out..

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
  • Universal Binary

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This Version:
Overall Rating: (4.0) Features: (4.0) Support: (3.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (4.0) Price: (5.0)
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Tofu CommentaryNo support for graphics - Version: 2.0a2, 8/18/2007 03:49PM PST

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King Pelvis
It's great to be able to read things in collumns, but the application homepage has screenshots of pages with photos in between the text.

I have never gotten Tofy to display a single graphic. Only text. Which then in most cases doesn't make the layout of a web page better, -it makes it more boring. But efficient to read, yes.

Background color no longer works in this version.
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Tofu CommentaryGreat... + feature suggestion - Version: 2.0a2, 5/4/2007 05:58AM PST

olivier.lamborelle
Thanks for this nice little product. I use now everyday as I often read papers or articles. This makes me use much less paper.

A feature I would like to see: to possibility to highlight (in yellow, or...) parts of the text or even annotate it, and save it with these highlighted part.

This would then fully replace the paper review.
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Tofu ReviewThanks! - Version: 2.0a2, 1/30/2007 03:38PM PST

Seb C
Works great with Intel. Thanks for a great app!
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