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Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean.
If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
If you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.Features:
If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
If you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.Features:
- A live word count
- A Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- A zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- An Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- Date-stamped backups
What's New
Version 3.0.6:
- The Inspector now updates more consistently (20120129-1).
- Fixed a text field input validation bug that in rare cases could cause a crash (20120130-1).
- Switching a document from full screen to a non-grouped window would not restore the document presentation settings. Fixed (20120130-3).
- Fixed a regression in 3.0.5 where File > Prevent Editing setting was not maintained when switching documents between windows (20120130-2).
- A status bar shown only to support Documents > Buttons now re-hides for other document navigation views (20120131-1).
- Reimplemented cycle windows (command-~) since it wasn't working correctly for some unknown reason (20120130-4).
- Fixed the bug where a newly created text table had black borders, then added cells had gray borders (20120201-1).
- You can now select a plain text document under Preferences > New > New Document Template > Custom > Choose Template (20120131-3).
- Updated Slovak translation, courtesy Rudolf Gavlas.
- Added Chinese (Simplified) translation
Version 3.0.6:
- The Inspector now updates more consistently (20120129-1).
- Fixed a text field input validation bug that in rare cases could cause a crash (20120130-1).
- Switching a document from full screen to a non-grouped window would not restore the document presentation settings. Fixed (20120130-3).
- Fixed a regression in 3.0.5 where File > Prevent Editing setting was not more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:159,042 |
| Version Downloads:2,987 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Free |
| Date:02 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean.
If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
If you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.Features:
If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
If you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.Features:
- A live word count
- A Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- A zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- An Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- Date-stamped backups
- Autosaving
- A page layout mode
- An alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- An option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- Selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- A floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- Easy to use menus
- Remembers cursor postion (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats)
- All of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
- Please keep in mind that Bean is betaware
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Antoinesynopsis reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
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Jamus reviewed on 02 Feb 2012
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Morgan_Alex reviewed on 27 Jan 2012
Nuff said .. 5 solid stars
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Sachi reviewed on 27 Jan 2012
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Priosantos-Jan reviewed on 20 Jan 2012
Launches fast, extremely nice workflow, good format support, ..
I would gladly pay for this app but it is free .. freee .. freeeeee
Thanks to the devs for making such a great app.
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Johninsapporo reviewed on 09 Jan 2012
Excellent app.
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Guass reviewed on 06 Jan 2012
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DirkTheMenace reviewed on 03 Jan 2012
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Rayj reviewed on 03 Jan 2012
Since then it's only got better.
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You can drag the borders of the text zone to the border of the window, but you'll have to do so each time, what a bore!!! And no way to save it as a template, AFAIK. Is it the MSWord syndrome? ;-) (i.e. "hard to do simple things")
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More: it just crashed while I was only scrolling the menus to see if ther was a language selection somewhere... No Help, The 'About Bean' doesn't even show, the 'move to separate window' function gives strange results (the original window simply disappear, the new one is but a 5mm square that you have to expand manually...
To me it's definitely a Béta!
Hope for you the Intel version is better (I'm on PPC)
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If you want text to run the entire width of your screen, set Prefs > Size > Limit Draft View Width... to 100%. But most full screen word processors / web pages / reader apps etc. do not present text that way, simply because people don't like it. Feel free to mail me the crash report or a bug report describing any problems.
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The Draft settings work ok, thanks! (but why not setting them to 100%? I can't see the point of having grey zones instead... people are strange if they like it that way! ;-D)
For the rest, I can only confirm the absence of reaction when I click on 'About Bean' and 'Help' and the strange behaviour of the 'move to separate window' function (even after throwing the prefs).
I have no crash report (it only crashed once when Bean 2.4.4 was open at the same time...), but if this can help, I'm on iMac G5 10.5.8)
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Re: the draft margins...all full-screen word processors, Safari reader, Kindle reader, and webpages in general try to limit the width of text beyond a certain width because its easier to read. In most windowed word processors you have to narrow the window to get this effect when in draft mode; yet, people like to work in layout mode with the window maximized (just look around in a coffee shop sometime to confirm this). This innovation in Bean (resizable draft width) allows the two views to work efficiently in the same window size.
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27/12/11 14:43:25 Bean[24719] *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter
27/12/11 14:43:28 Bean[24719] *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter
27/12/11 14:43:28 Bean[24719] *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter
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All is quite well, only the 'move to separate window' glitch remains, but I don't need this feature, so for me it's ok!
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Bean does allow you to add images, but not with all file types. You can use "Save As..." to select a file type that handles images. i haven't tried them all, but the .rtfd extension does allow images to be included in the document.
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How frustrating for you. I just experimented by inserting images in several formats (pict, jpeg, png, pdf) by using both the Insert command and drag and drop method. The resulting document (.rtfd) displayed correctly in Bean and other text editors.
I should say that I am using the latest non-beta version of Bean and OS X 10.5.6.
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livingcrayon rated on 27 Jan 2012
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