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Diamond - 3.5

Document editor with multiple column display.

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All Time:	(5.0)
This Version:	(5.0)
Current Version:	3.5
Release Date:	2009-08-02
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	628
Downloads (all versions):	6,650

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Product Description:

Be as creative with your workspace as you are with your work. Diamond is a simple yet very powerful Rich Text document editor that gives you unprecedented control over how it looks and behaves on a per-window basis, allowing you to create flexible, customized workspaces and a unique look and feel for your working environment. Diamond offers columnar editing, similar to the multicolumn views of Amar Sagoo's "Tofu" text reader, dividing a document into pages and displaying them horizontally (it doesn't create or edit documents that are formatted with multiple text column layouts as in Pages or InDesign however) and a flexible window system. Under the hood there is rock solid support for the Cocoa text handling system, and aggressive support for Apple Automator. Diamond reads and writes RTF, RTFD, Text, and MS DOC formats.

More info, screenshots, User Forum, and Tutorials at the developer's site, http://www.geoffreyalexander.com (users of Mac OS 10.4 [Tiger] can also find a build for that system there as well).

What's new in this version:

Restored the Sparkle framework allowing automatic updates, and pointed it toward the new URL for the (soon-to-be) revised Diamond site. Renamed "Clone Contents" to Clone Document; other minor tweaks and corrections.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Apple Automator for advanced features

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Interesting editor - Version: 3.5, 8/8/2009 08:14PM PST

philosopherdog

A well thought out editor with plenty of cool features. Basically, the idea is that on-screen reading is much easier if stuff is in columns. This is the basis of programs like Stanza or Tofu. Diamond turns this idea of working in columns into a Text Editor. I use it to open long rtf documents, which are easier to read and edit in this Diamond than conventional editors. The program is very configurable, and includes the ability to roll up windows, among many other cool features. I'd love to see window floating too. To me that would make the program complete. The reviews of the program in earlier iterations should be ignored. It is totally stable. Thanx to this generous developer for making this program freely available.

Posts this on VT - and link dead due to unfinish - Version: 3.4, 11/17/2008 03:09AM PST

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ol_pip

Don't get too excited and spring Diamond onto VersionTracker too soon next time eh?

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don't - Version: 3.1, 9/7/2008 05:09AM PST

mikel850i

The product looks nice, but... i just lost a document because of diamond crash on leopard. I was typing for half an hour, didn't save the document. I made a break, then returned to document, and instead of my document i saw a clean window, free of any text. I wanted to quit diamond, but it said i have 2 documents unsaved. So i closed the empty document, and my typed document is in front of me again. I push save, and the program crashes. After i restart diamond, no sign of my document anywhere. Rebooted my mac, hoping to find it in trash in recovered files - but no luck. So I erased diamond, and live happily with textedit, which is much more reliable=)