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Article: Text Cleaner.(from Studio 405) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Typographical Tool Needs Work
Along with last-minute deadlines and demanding clients, one of graphic designers' biggest aggravations is improperly formatted text--straight quotes instead of curly; hyphens rather than en and em dashes; and multiple spaces, returns, and tabs--which often requires repeated and time-consuming search-and-replace operations. Studio 405's Text Cleaner 1.0 offers a quick fix for this problem, purporting to correct common typographical errors in one pass.
In addition to the mistakes listed above, Text Cleaner performs such esoteric functions as removing spaces before and after a hyphen, changing curly quotes to straight quotes for foot ...