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iPassepartout is a very powerful Cocoa application for MacOS X that allows you to inspect the content of any kind of file either by dragging a folder/file or by searching for files. iPassepartout lets you see/read/play/select/crop/copy/drag instantaneously, in an unique resizable window, the content of each file, no matter if it is a graphic, audio or movie, text, html or pfd file. iPassepartout lets you quickly inspect kinds of files like pdf, jpg, png, tif, pict, icns, bmp, photoshop, gif, tga, mp3, aif, wav, mpg, mov, avi, txt, rtf, rtfd, doc, html, and more.
Also iPassepartout lets you performs special actions on the file list, like exporting all the images with custom size, resolution, graphic format and background color, or like exporting all the unique icons from the selected files.
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 can replace the Find command in the Finder and the application Preview 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.
Some features:
Also iPassepartout lets you performs special actions on the file list, like exporting all the images with custom size, resolution, graphic format and background color, or like exporting all the unique icons from the selected files.
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 can replace the Find command in the Finder and the application Preview 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.
Some features:
- Search for content, filename, dates, kind, within filePackages...
- Read/select/copy/drag text, locate the occurrences.
- See/crop/copy/drag images.
- Play/select/copy audio files.
- Play/select/copy movie files.
- Read/display HTML and PDF documents
- See File info, Graphic Exif info and Audio ID3 info.
- Export images with custom size, graphic format (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF), resolution, with several naming kinds, to one folder or to a "source folder tree copy".
- Extract and export icons as jpg, png, tiff bmp, gif.
- Save pathname list to a text file.
- Copy the files from the list to a different location.
- Delete the files from the disk.
- Search for all the icons embedded within the applications.
- Added more compatibility at displaying Microsoft Word files (.doc) in Panther. Now iPPT shows styles and font size properly.
- Added the menu Action: this menu groups commands working on the selected items in the items found list. More than including the functions already available through the keyboard and mouse on both the lite and full versions (Open File, Reveal File, Remove File, Delete File, Trash File), we added 3 actions more to the full version only (and we'll add more later).
- Export Images: lets you export at high speed and professional quality, all the images selected, with size, resolution, graphic format and files naming method chosen by the user. Also, in case of size change, the user can choose whether shrink or cut the final image, and whether enlarge or add paper (with a custom color) to the final image. iPPT can export all the images within one only destination folder chosen by the user, or it can create at the destination folder a copy of the source folders tree and save each image to the relative destination path. This way it will be so easy to export the low resolution images to an equal and parallel folders tree. iPPT can save the images with the same source filename or with a progressive number (adding how many zeros the user desires). It can also replace the existing files or exporting the new files with a new and uniqe file name. Last, in the Export Images panel, there are 4 functions returning the min and max size of all the selected images. These functions are useful, for example, to uniform all the images size to the largest image size (shrinking/enlarging the images or cutting/adding paper).
- Extract Icons: lets you extract from all the selected items, in one shot only, the largest icon available and save it as BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF within the destination folder chosen. There is an option which lets you to skip the icons duplicated.
- Save Pathnames to file: it lets you save a text file listing all the pathnames of the files selected in the Items Found List. The user can choose to save the list with a Classic styled pathname (with the colon : delimiter like MyDisk:MyFolder:MyFile) or with an Unix styled pathname (with the slash / delimiter like: /Volumes/MyDisk/MyFolder/MyFile). This list can be used for further programming purposes (AppleScript, Perl...) or for archiving.
- Added the column Modification Date. You can show/hide this column by the check-Box "Show Modification Date Column" in the iPPT Preferences panel. When visible, you can sort the Items Found List by Modification Date too.
- The Search Folder text field on the console, now accepts drops and resolves alias folders.
- The Items Found List on the console, now accepts drops and resolves alias file and folders. Please note that iPPT never resolves alias nested within the folders dragged, and never resolves alias during the searches.
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (3.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (2.0) |
Price: | (1.0) |
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Expensive but good - Version: 1.2.0, 9/6/2005 01:52AM PST
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Nick Sloan
Great program - Version: 1.2.0, 9/4/2005 12:42PM PST
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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-
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
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hdoering_dotmac
I wonder that nobody detected, that iPassepartout hangs, when a GIF-File with a transparent background is to display (spinning beachball)...!
I mailed this to Softobe and hope it will be fixed.
I mailed this to Softobe and hope it will be fixed.
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.