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Mar 14 2009

GAZMAN  My only complaint, and its a big one, is that in full-screen mode the menubar is still present and I find it annoyingly distracting when trying to immerse myself in what I'm reading. Until this gets resolved I'm going to stick with Stanza which, although shareware and not as polished, does full screen much better.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Apr 30 2009

HIPPY DAVE  regarding fullscreen, tofu seems to work perfectly with megazoom:

http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

this lets you use tofu in fullscreen, with no menu bar, no window title bar, just a full screen of text and a scrollbar at the bottom.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Feb 24 2009

EVILINSTONE  Please add support .fb2 format.

Thanks!  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Nov 20 2008

TEKL  I'm missing a printing option.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Oct 20 2008
*****

NOTEFARM  Amar is a genius and this program is a must have. Now reading on my computer is a joy.For another app that dose one thing very well I also would recommend Amars other App called Namely. Thank you for writing such perfect software.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Sep 8 2008
*****

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Very cool and easy to use. And it's free! :]  
(Version 2.0)

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Mar 30 2006
*****

CRUCIAL  Absolute genius.

Tofu does not get nearly the attention it deserves. Tofu makes reading long documents on screen totally painless, and in some ways is better than reading a paper based document as you can see both the page before and after so you can easily scan for things and adjust column width for reading comfort.

If it has bugs, like sometimes spotty connection to services they are of so little consequence, compared to the simplicity and elegance of this app. My biggest gripe is that this is not built into the OS so that I can chose to read web pages without having to switch to it, or compose notes in TextEdit using the same concept.

I just wish there was more software out there that re-though problems and came up with such elegantly simple solutions. Solutions that remove barriers and have interfaces so simple that they need no toolbars, or other extraneous icons. Interfaces that just get out of the way. A lot can be learned from the elegance of this application, when it comes to software, less is often more.  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Dec 8 2007

ALANR  I love ToFu and use it ALL the time.

It is, in a way built into the “System”. It introduces a Services menu option (Under File) “View in ToFu”. So all you need to do is highlight the required text and choose that menu selection. I do it all the time and have a keyboard shortcut defined for just that. This works in Cocoa apps (Safari, Camino etc.) but not in Firefox which does not support Services.

I do find that text from a few websites requires some pre-formatting in an editor to replace one return with two to maintain paragraph formatting in ToFu. It’s not a major problem though.

Maybe that’s a function which could be incorporated into ToFu itself for the times when it’s needed.  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Mar 29 2006

SOMEONE  Under version 2.0 alpha, the system wide service no longer works and remembering text position doesn't work at all for PDf files.  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Mar 29 2006

IMACBIE  This is a very neat app.

Hopefully PDF support will be complete with ease o.O  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Mar 28 2006
*****

HUEVOX  This is a simple and effective app. Thank you so much for such a great tool! I would gladly pay a fee to use this.  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Mar 29 2006

TLOESCH  Dear Huevox,

if you really feel like sending the developer some money you may donate :+)

http://homepage.mac.com/asagoo/donate/index.html

Ture  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Nov 11 2005
****.

BABBETTE  Very nice for reading etexts from Project Gutenberg. For once reading a Gutenberg book is a pleasure---not as much pleasure as having a real paper book, but a thousand times better than reading an etext in a word processing program.

Tofu does tend to quit unexpectedly when leaving full screen mode... a fixable issue

I wish there was a way to automatically set the number of columns without tweaking the pixel width of the columns. I'd like to get to a two page layout like a book automatically.

It would be nice if you could set the scrolling preferences. When I read a text I get to the lower right hand corner I want to 'turn the page' but Tofu just slides one column over to the 'next column'. this requires a two click motion to get a new screen of columns. It would give a book like feel if you could set it to move the columns so the screen is filled with all new columns.

In reading these notes I see what I really want is a preference that is "Give Tofu screen a book like setting"--two columns per screen, scrolling actually is like turning a page. Given that, and I'd pay for this.  
(Version 2.0a1)

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Oct 30 2005
*****

HERVé S.  A new release of this excellent application is always a very good news :-)  
(Version 2.0a1)

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Oct 29 2005

ANONYMOUS  ver. 2.0a4 requires Tiger (10.4). Its support for PDF requires a Tiger-only dynamic library.  
(Version 2.0a1)

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Oct 27 2005

ANONYMOUS  This is a great little program for anyone who spends a lot of time reading large text files. It is much more pleasant than scrolling through pages in Microsoft Word, and is quick, convenient, and easy to use.

However, I have a few suggestions on how you could improve it.

1) Page numbers at the bottom of each column

2) A window below the scroll bar (or at the side of the viewer) that gives a summary of the file contents (i.e. word count, page count, enclosing folder/location)

3) The ability to open multiple files in the one viewer, and then move between them (each time that you add a file to the viewer, a new thumbnail could be added to the toolbar)

Keep up the great work!  
(Version 1.3.4)

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Sep 13 2005
*****

ANONYMOUS  Awesome application.

Was hoping for an update but hey, everything works well.

Have only noticed the text missing bog here and there.  
(Version 1.3.4)

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Jun 14 2005
****½

ANONYMOUS  I find this a really great little program with a lot of potential. I use it for reading the many books which I have saved as text files. It's a most handy application and most comfortable on my eyes so far. I'm using Tiger with Tofu 1.3.4 and it works great except that once or twice in a document there are letters missing at the end of some lines where I have to guess what the last 1 or 2 letters of the word are...just a small note to consider for the next version...  
(Version 1.3.4)

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May 27 2005

ANONYMOUS  why is this only a text reader? what am i going to do with a read only text app?

it wouldn't be too hard to allow editing and make this a truly killer application  
(Version 1.3.4)

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Aug 25 2005

ANONYMOUS  You have a text reader to read text! Why do apps have to be everything to everyone? Personally I think it's great that this app serves one purpose and does it well.  
(Version 1.3.4)

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Oct 16 2005

ARVID  there are far too few good text readers. But i must agree with the first poster that there are even less good text Annotators. Combined with a display such as this, the ability to highlight, markup, and then have a dynamic list of markups for each document would be just awesome.  
(Version 1.3.4)

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May 4 2005
*****

CHARLES JENKINS  I tried this version of Tofu on a Mac mini running OS X 10.4 Tiger. My screen resolution is 800x600 and I make the font quite large in Tofu. When the Tofu window appears, there is always a huge blank space--like a rectangle that has been erased, obscuring the text behind it. I always have to reduce the font size by one step and then enlarge it again in order for Tofu to draw the text readably. This problem only appeared after I upgraded to Tiger.  
(Version 1.3.3)

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May 5 2005

AMAR SAGOO  Hi,

I am working on a fix for this problem. It should be ready sometime this week.

Thanks

Amar  
(Version 1.3.3)

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May 1 2005
*****

J. BAUSCH  I just love Tofu as it makes me feel like I'm reading a newspaper. The format is so easy on the eyes and brain. I find myself using it as follows: after surfing to a page I want to read the text, I find the 'print format' link on the page, follow it, then select all text via the keyboard, then under 'services' choose 'view in columns', then control-L to view full-screen in Tofu. I just wish there was a simple way to make Safari or some other web browser capable of automatically finding and loading the 'print format' link on a page, then follow the rest of the commands above to make it automated! (version 1.3.3)  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 25 2005
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ANONYMOUS  Is there a trick to getting the "remember scroll position" preference to work? I'm using Tofu to read a very long html document but it never remembers where I last was in the document.  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 26 2005

AMAR SAGOO  It may be that it only appears not to work, because it only scrolls to the right position once it has finished laying out your text, which can take a few seconds with very long documents. And if you scroll manually in the meantime, it will respect that and forget about the saved position.

Please email me if it really doesn't work for you, because others have reported this but I haven't been able to reproduce it.

Thanks

Amar  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 26 2005

ANONYMOUS  Thanks for your reply, that was indeed the case; I didn't realize that I had to wait for the document to load completely before Tofu would jump to the 'remembered position'. It seems to be working as it should if I just give it a few seconds to completely load the document. Great app, thanks for keeping it free!  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 24 2005

ANONYMOUS  It'd be nice to have EVEN rudemantary support for PDFs, even if the text shows up garbled, as long as text shows up and its in the order it is supposed to be read, it would be MUCH better than the current situation: useless code. :-)

A highlighter mode would also be FANTASTIC, so that one can highlight text and save that to the resource fork as well. :-)  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 25 2005

ANON  I have TextLightning coming up then I start Tofu from a pdf, takes some time corresponding to the file size but does it. I wondered why it does it but it does.  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 25 2005

ANONYMOUS  Another option is to use Trapeze to convert from PDF to RTF and then view that in Tofu.  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 26 2005

ANONYMOUS  Adobe Reader 7 also has a "save as text" feature.. the layout is usually horribly garbled when you do it this way, but it's possible to save a PDF as text and then open it up in Tofu.  
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 24 2005

ANONYMOUS  There is a VERY weird bug with the horizontal scrolling in this program when using the keyboard's arrow keys to scroll. It scrolls normally until about an inch from where the scrollbar runs out of space, and than it slows down exponentially and NEVER reaches the REAL end--I assume because it would take infinite time to do so. Check it out.   
(Version 1.3.3)

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Apr 19 2005
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ANONYMOUS  Good idea, well implemented and dead useful! Thanks for keeping it free :-)  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Apr 17 2005
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ARVID  This is an awesome little piece of software. I have only a few little suggestions that would make it better:

1. The ability to save if i want to even when ask to save is not checked in the prefs (cause i dont want to save most stuff, but rarely I do.

2. Some other method of adding text - a service with a global key command? Or dragging text to the icon in the dock could drop it into Tofu. I will try to maybe write an applescript to do this with a global key command...

3. speech recognition and the ability to Cmd-tab to other apps/invoke expose in full screen mode.

otherwise excellent! thanks!  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Apr 17 2005

ARVID  ooh ooh - and one more thing - I know this would be another app entirely or a big endeavor (but i, for one, would pay some $ for a good one of these) - if highlighting and markup were included - so you could highlight and add dynamic notes/cross references to text (like for PDFs in Acrobat Pro [but that app is way too bloated] or corrections in MS word.) Man, that (combined with the ease of reading of tofu) would be one kickin' app.  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Apr 2 2005

ANONYMOUS  i am reading my text at twice the speed since i started to use tofu!  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Mar 28 2005
*****

ANONYMOUS  This little app is a real gem; it's earned a spot in my dock.  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Mar 27 2005
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ANONYMOUS  It's a pleasure to see this brilliant software is still alive and well!

Hervé S.  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Mar 27 2005
*****

MING-HAO CHEN  What a great document reader. It totally changed the way I read articles. Btw, is it possible to support PDF document? Thanks for the developer's efforts.  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Mar 28 2005

ANONYMOUS  PDF's have their own layout, so reformatting them in columns isn't possible. The best the dev. could do is layout pages side by side, which would make for some really small text.  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Feb 17 2005
****½

WOLF  Wonderful

I copy all sorts of text into a plain text file and it is easily readable with this. Look at Project Gutenberg and expand your horizons  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 13 2005
*****

ANONYMOUS  What a great app. Easy to adjust the columns to preference, then copy difficult full-screen text, open Tofu, paste, and aaah!, what a treat for the eyes. So simple and quick! 5stars.  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 5 2005

ANONYMOUS  a pdf option would be nice  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 4 2005

RICK JARVIS  Great utility, but I still get version 1.2 when I download.  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 4 2005

ANONYMOUS  clear your browser cache, or something...

for sure, the download link here at MU yields version 1.3.1  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 4 2005
*****

EBT LIN  great tool and easy to use. tofu makes reading at ease. i've recommended this tool to several friends, and they all found it great and useful. thanks!  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 1 2005
*****

HERVé S.  Not only this software is excellent, but you get so rapidly used to it, you pretty soon just cannot deal without!  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 1 2005
*****

ANONYMOUS  That is a very useful application.

I also require ability PDF reading! Thanks.

Bansuri.  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Feb 1 2005

ANONYMOUS  Wait for PDFKit in Tiger. There'll be tons of PDF readers within a week.  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Jan 31 2005
*****

MU5TI  Very nice app.

Please please add PDF so we'll have a decent multi-page PDF reader.

Thanks.  
(Version 1.3)

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Jan 31 2005
*****

ANONYMOUS  New version is great. The new scrolling makes it so easy to follow where you are. The reverse scrolling is also welcome. And the one thing I didn't like from 1.2 was that it asked me to save what I was reading - and now that's a preference.

Any time I come across long articles to read they go straight into Tofu.  
(Version 1.3)

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Dec 11 2004
***½.

PIPO  It's worth it save any document. Never open again saved as .rtfd.

Great full screen.   
(Version 1.2)

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Oct 10 2004
****.

MICHAEL  Yup I like it....just what I needed. its still a bit buggy, it likes to crash when trying to enter full screen mode, but what the heck I try a few times and there it goes. I too would appreciate if bookmarks were possible, but this is *just* 1.2 as I understand, its free, its great.

It will make my reading a lot more enjoyable, so much I know already. I will crave for updates and be happy. Thank you so much for this. two stars less because of aforementioned issues, but hey thumbs up.  
(Version 1.2)

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Oct 9 2004

ANONYMOUS  Ok, this is neat and all but why can't you WRITE TO FILES?? A viewer is mostly useless. An editor with these features would be worth something. I just don't see the point, honestly.  
(Version 1.2)

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Oct 9 2004
****½

ANONYMOUS  One problem: saving scroll position doesn't really work! I like reading Gutenberg texts but they are usually very long so I need to bookmark my last read position. I was rather hoping that the "Remember Scroll position within documents" would do the trick - but I found that every time I reopened a previously read document, it would always start at the beginning.

I am not sure why saving positions doesn't work (my fs is HFS+, so resource forks are supported).

I've written to the developer about this but did not receive a reply, so I am not sure if perhaps I am the only one who has this problem?  
(Version 1.2)

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Oct 9 2004
****½

IMOLK  I've been using Tofu for quite a while now, and loving it. I just downloaded this new update (1.2), full of enthusiasm about the new features. However, I was very disappointed by one detail: the "Do you want to save the changes you made in the document x?” dialog. For me, Tofu is still a read-only app, and I had gotten quite good at using shortcuts to get text from Safari to Tofu in 2 seconds. This dialogue just makes the whole thing slower, heavier and annoying. I am probably never going to save any document.

Peronally, what I expect from Tofu-updates is speed. Getting rid of the empty window and automatically bringing Tofu to the front is a big step forward. But now I have this pesky dialogue harassing me every time I want to close a window :-(

This may seem like a silly detail, but I am sure some people will understand me. Still, I insist on how useful this application is, and encourage the developer do keep updating it :-)  
(Version 1.2)

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Oct 9 2004

ANONYMOUS  An excellent program — keep it as it is! The whole point is that it is a simple program that does the job. Edit, print and save in TextEdit — open & read in Tofu.  
(Version 1.2)

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Oct 9 2004
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SAN  Great! Thanks!

Please add the possibility to Print, Edit and Save.  
(Version 1.1.2)

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Jul 28 2004
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ANONYMOUS  Why is this only a text viewer, not an editor? I can see this style of editing being useful for many purposes - writing a narrative or technical documentation where you often needed to refer back & forth through the document while composing. It would be worthwhile for the developer to flip the switch required for this to allow editing and test it out.  
(Version 1.1.2)

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Jun 20 2004

HERVE S.  it's excellent to see Tofu is still moving :-)

personaly it's my default application for rtf for quite a while...  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Jun 20 2004
*****

CYBERDYNE  Please, please, please ! Ad the possibility to save Tufu's documents and it will be absolutely perfect.  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Jun 20 2004
*****

ANONYMOUS  This is a fabulous idea almost perfectly executed. And free too. I'm not sure if this is the same "footnotes" feature other's are talking about but I too would love the program to utilise inter-document links (such as used for endnotes in html.  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Jun 19 2004
****½

ANONYMOUS  Amazing that it took such a simple little application to make me realize that maybe I don't have a really bad case of Attention Deficit Disorder.

I would like to see the footnotes issue resolved.  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Jun 19 2004
*****

ERIC  This is invaluable for reading long articles or documents. Set your reader to a slightly off white and a easy to read font, turn off justification and the space bar turns the "pages." This speeds up your reading and removed the distractions of inline ads from web pages. The experience is as close to reading from a book as you can get on a computer.

Also, there is an incompatibility with 1.1 and 10.2.x which I emailed the developer about and he mailed me back and today *and* upgraded to 1.1.1 - which I'm sure will be available here shortly.  
(Version 1.1)

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Jun 19 2004
*****

ANONYMOUS  Absolutely ingenious. Simple but effective.  
(Version 1.1)

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Jun 5 2004
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ANONYMOUS  Excellent idea. However, most of the documents I write and read contain footnotes. Unless I am missing something, Tofu does not adequately accomodate footnotes; it merely runs them at the end of the document, somewhat like endnotes, but no numbering or note marking is included. With footnoting included, Tofu is 5 star all the way.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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May 16 2004
****.

ADAM YAP  Now this is what it's all about! A properly innovative idea that fulfils a real need. I look forward to more development on this app, though it's already pretty damn good.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Apr 19 2004
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BRIAN  The best ideas are often the simplest, as the saying goes. I loaded Tofu two days ago and have since caught up with lots of documents I meant to read weeks ago. Horizontal scrolling is something you understand immediately but need (in my case) a few minutes to get used to.

After that it's just so nice to sit back and just read "normally".  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Mar 28 2004
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ANONYMOUS  This program is fanfreakingtastic! Absolute genius, and with time will only get better. Great idea! I did notice a redraw problem when making the columns wider, but that could just be my slow iss abook. :)  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Mar 28 2004
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ME  This is a great idea. The day you try it is the day you wonder how you got by without it.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Mar 28 2004
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MISSING PRINT  SUPERBEWARE, but no printing :(  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Mar 27 2004
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AVFOLK  ABSOLUTELY SUPERB -- Reading long documents is no longer a chore -- or pain in the wrist. Tofu deserves to be an a new category -- SUPERBware.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Feb 1 2004
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ANONYMOUS  If you are using OS X 10.3 it even opens MS Word files.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 5 2004
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JEANNELEY  Tofu is a wonderful application for folks with disabilities (like me!). I have a lot of difficulty holding a book, turning pages, and focusing on small print, and Tofu resolves all of those barriers for me. I'm able to adjust the text size and background color for easy readability, and I can "turn" pages by pressing the arrow keys or page up/down keys.

Thank you so much for developing Tofu so that I can read for pleasure again! This application really deserves special recognition for its accessibility features.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 2 2004
****½

ANONYMOUS  Great little program. Great way to read text on a small screen.  
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Jan 2 2004
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JOHN E.  Few apps do something so simple yet so well.

Tofu simply takes a long text document and gives you a way to read it more confortably and effeciently than a simple scroll. It takes your text and breaks it into columns which scroll sideways for easy reading. The size, font, and layout of the text can be edited in preferences.

Webpages can be brought it with a simple copy and then pull down Tofu under "services".

You have to try it.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 1 2004
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ANONYMOUS  Good app if only it would remember it's window size and dynamicly resize it's own column width when dragging the corner. I have a 23" HD Cinema Display and the default window is just waaaaay to small for this app to be of much use to me. I have a widescreen monitor which should be ideal for reading left to right without scrolling, this app would be great if it took advantage of this.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 2 2004

AMAR  Regarding default window size: Tofu remembers the size of the window you last resized and uses that for new windows.

Regarding automatic column resizing: Column width is something quite critical in determining readability, so I thought Tofu shouldn't mess with this when you resize a window. You can set it in the preferences, though.  
(Version 1.0)

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Sep 15 2003
*****

KRIEGMAN  I really like this little app! It is much more natural to read from the side...  
(Version 0.3.1)

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Sep 14 2003
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ANNO  A-1 I like it great side by side columns thanks for the fee-bee,drag n drop is good ,and yep it's for us old folks who were there when Apple first cranked up !!!  
(Version 0.3.1)

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Sep 14 2003

ANONYMOUS  I agree with anonymous' comments of 8/18/03; young people often fail to see greatness.  
(Version 0.3.1)

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Sep 14 2003
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AL  It is such a good idea, why haven't I seen this before now? Makes it easier to read long essays.

BTW anon, with some luck you will grow old too.   
(Version 0.3.1)

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Sep 2 2003
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ANONYMOUS  It's a good idea: simple, straight-forward, and does what it's supposed to--makes text easier to read or scan. Now if it worked with more text types....  
(Version 0.2)

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Dec 24 2004

CHRIS  Love it. Two must-have features would take it to the next level:

1) Auto-scrolling:

Turn on, adjust to favorite speed, sit back and read with arms folded. A single column flows alone down the middle of your nice black screen. A lazy, no-hands river of good reading. No distractions, no need to lift a finger.

2) Optional alternative to above auto-scroll: Text fade in/fade out.

Paragraph to paragraph fade. There is a screensaving utility that does this (FadeText, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8419 ). It fades in and out, paragraph to paragraph. Thing is, it's meant for lyrics reading for musicians. For reading articles, etc, Tofu should fade to the next chunk of user-determined text (according to a set number of words) not simply at every line break or paragraph.

To me though, #1, is of utmost need to make a good utility great.

Thanks for your work.  
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Aug 18 2003

ANONYMOUS  i fail to see the greatness of this... maybe its for old people...  
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Aug 17 2003

KALKI  This is an EXCELLENT idea… I would like to see a Text editor with such options. It really is a more pleasant configuration.   
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Aug 16 2003
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PITERPAN  what a grat idea this is!

Thanks a lot!

...and the name is great to. :-)  
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Aug 16 2003
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HUGO HEIN  YES! Thats IT! Keep on Working.

Now i now what kind of reader i missed since i bought 1988 my first computer.

Please implement as much common formats as you now (html,pdf possible?,rtfd an so on)

Thank you very much for this very useful app.  
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