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iPassepartout - 1.0.1

Find/drag any file & see-play-select-copy any content

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All Time:	(3.8)
Version 1.0.1:	(3.6)
Selected Version:	1.0.1
Release Date:	2003-10-01
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.0.1):	304
Downloads (all versions):	3,829
Price:	$35 $20 lite

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Product Description:

iPassepartout is a very powerful Cocoa application for MacOS X that allows you to search for files (or drag folders and files) and see/read/play/select/crop/copy/drag immediately the content of any kind of standard file from the list of the files found or dragged. iPassepartout shows instantaneously, in an unique resizable window, the content of each file, no matter if it is a text, graphic, audio or movie, html or pfd. iPassepartout lets you quickly inspect kinds of files like txt, rtf, rtfd, html, pdf, jpg, png, tif, pict, icns, bmp, photoshop, gif, tga, mp3, aif, wav, mpg, mov, avi, and many many others more. iPassepartout is the ideal tool to search and browse within large archives like email, newsgroup, source code, common text, articles, pictures, movies, songs,... and is greatly helpful for searching works requiring intensive interaction (search/select/copy/paste) with text, graphics, audio and movies. According to most of its users, it should fairly replace the Find command in the Finder of any Mac computer. Passe-partout (pronounced "pass-par-two") is a french word meaning "the universal key that opens all the room in a Hotel". That's iPassepartout for files.
iPassepartout is available even as a lite version managing Text files only.

What's new in this version:

Fixed the "Cannot launch" problem caused by expanding the sit file. Now iPPT comes as stuffed file containing a .dmg file. Unstuff the downloaded .sit file. Then double click on the ippt.dmg file. A new disk will appear on your desktop called iPassepartout 1.0.1. Drag the disk icon onto the /Applications folder icon of your boot disk in order to install iPassepartout there.
Added more compatibility at reading and serching within Microsoft Word files (.doc) saved on Macintosh.
The unregistered versions can now launch and reveal a selected file. To launch a file, double click on the file row of the Items Found List. To reveal a file in the Finder, simply click on the file row of the Items Found List holding down the ALT (Option) key.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0.1:
Overall Rating:	(3.6)	Features:	(3.4)	Support:	(3.6)
Ease of Use:	(3.8)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(3.2)

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Expensive but good - Version: 1.2.0, 9/6/2005 01:52AM PST

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Nick Sloan

Spotlight is inspired at best, but at worst, unreliable unpredictable and cluttered. Now more than ever there is a role for third party search apps that can better Spotlight in certain areas. There is some choice: Locator is good for instant straight filename searches, but depends on the locate database, which has its own issues. EasyFind is neat and reliable, but slow for filename searches and very slow for content searches. At least both these are free, whereas iPassepartout costs $35. What does it offer for that?

In brief: a clean uncluttered interface, speed, and excellent previews. For straight filename searches it beats Spotlight into a cocked hat: an unambiguous list of filenames containing or matching the search term appears in seconds. Items in the list can then be acted on in a number of ways: opened, revealed, trashed, removed from list etc.

iPassepartout will also do reasonably fast content searches in all the formats checked in its preferences. And all this without any dependency on an index.

The jewel in iPassepartout’s crown however is that for many of the found items, a full size preview of the file content is shown when they are selected. Images are displayed to fit, Illustrator files are shown at full size but can be panned, and many text files are shown fully formatted or, if iP does not have access to the format, as text dumps. While these previews are iP’s major selling point, expanding the range of known formats is also where there is the greatest need for improvement. I also agree with other posters that search terms should be highlighted in text.

Finally, it amazes me that Softobe have sold any licenses at all, thanks to their absurd demo crippling system. It is quite impossible to test properly with the demo, but pester them for a limited-time license and you may well be hooked.

Great program - Version: 1.2.0, 9/4/2005 12:42PM PST

PQXYZ33

I had used iPassepartout 1.1.0 for more than a year. I found it invaluable in that it not only found files based on filename and/or content, but also displayed the content so that I could tell if I had REALLY found what I was looking for.

Tiger's Spotlight is pretty good too, but by comparison it is lacking when it comes to being able to tell whether what was found was REALLY what you wanted to find.

I'm therefore very glad to see this 1.2.0 version of iPassepartout for Tiger--which is a free upgrade, by the way, for registered users of 1.1.0 (copy the old registration file to the new iPassepartout folder).

Installed and working fine. No problems so far.

-Don-

Program hangs at transparent GIF-Backgrounds - Version: 1.1.0, 12/18/2003 01:47PM PST