Overview
Get Plain Text is a practical utility program to process text within: It converts copied text into plain text. If you've used the copy/paste functions in Mac OS before, you'll appreciate how valuable Get Plain Text is! We use it ourselves every day. This app will lower your stress level and save you tons of time!
It instantly removes everything unneeded: colors, typeface size, style (for example, boldface/italics), hyper-links, images, etc. In other words, everything that isn't plain text! Now you can put plain text in your letters and documents using the copy/paste functions, without having to clean it up manually. Get Plain Text will convert any bit of text into plain text, no matter where you copied it from (a website, PDF document or elsewhere). You can activate the feature manually, or check "automatically remove formatting".
What's new in Get Plain Text
- Simplify quotes: All occurrences of any of the characters („ " " » «) transforms to " and (› ‹ ‚ ‘ ’) transforms to '
- Improved user interface localization
- Ready for OS X 10.11 El Capitan
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- Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later
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You'll see it in your edit menu as "Paste and match style"
That doesn't work in Postbox (at least the version I have)
Or in the version of Office I'm running
Or in webapps, like LucidChart
Or in Graphic (formerly iDraw)
Or in Pixelmator (at least the version I have)
etc., etc.
You may be a "code jockey" but you obviously aren't up on Apple coding. The Containers folder is an integral part of the latest versions of OSX and is part of sandboxing.
If you look in the User>Library folder of any Mac that is running an up to date OS, you'll see a Containers folder present and it will have folders inside of it, which will have the names of some of the apps on that Mac.
So, bottom line, there is no "shenanigans" going on here and you have bad mouthed a piece of software that was likely coded in close adherence to Apple's developer guidelines.
You've also chosen to badmouth this piece of software, simply because it performs a task that you can't personally appreciate. Which strikes me as immature behavior.
-Chris Hart