Tk Sumiya's Freeware / Tools1

Tools 1

Useful and useless droplets.

Last update: Jun 2, 1998

Takahiro Sumiya (sumi@cuby.mis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp)

Clipping Converter

version: 1.0

"Clipping Converter" performs conversion between

Text File <-> Text Clipping
Pict File <-> Pict Clipping

With clipping FKEY, which save current clipboard contents as clipping file on desktop.

1.0 (95/12/14): Initial version

(33414 bytes)

FIT2EPS

version: 1.01

FIT2EPS convert Pict file into EPS file. FIT2EPS extract Pict as BitMap image and save it. Color postscript is not supported.

FIT means "Flash It! ". I wrote it in order to put the Macintosh screen image on LaTeX documents. Screen image was captured by Flash It! and saved by Pict format. My LaTeX needed EPS file. So I wrote it. Old day's story. (I'm still using Flash It! It's handy!!)

1.01 (93/08/24): Minor bug fixed version
1.0 (93/07/13): Initial version

(14566 bytes)

FakeIt!

version: 1.01

FakeIt! creates a 'Fake' of your application. When you would launch 'Fake', it looks for the selection on Finder and tell the original application to open them.

Using 'Fake', you can simplify the drag and drop operation on Finder. With 'Fake', what you should do is to select the documents on Finder and launch the 'Fake' from Apple menu or from various launcher utilities. In addition to that, with Now Utilities, QuicKeys, etc., you can use short cut to 'Fake'. For example, you can select some files on Finder and type command-R to open them with ResEdit.

1.01 (96/05/14): Minor change of appearance of preferences dialog box
1.0 (95/09/25): Initial version

(39681 bytes)

ShowPages

version: 1.4.5

ShowPages is a small utility for printing text files. If the first 2 bytes of files are "%!", ShowPages treat it as Postscript code.

Please note that ShowPages just SENDs it to printer, not RASTERIZEs. To rasterize the Postscript code or to print Postscript code on non-Postscript printer, you need special tools like Ghostscript or T-Script.

1.4.5 (98/06/02): New page with Ctl-L (traditional control code on UNIX and MS-DOS); Don't show annoying gray line in Page Setup Dialog; Work with G3 Macintosh.
1.4.3 (93/09/24): Fix bug regarding pop-up menu
1.4.2 (93/06/21): Fix bug regarding page number printing; Fix bug that shows invalid space with mono space font; Suppress last blank page with LaserWriter 8.0 driver
1.4.1 (93/05/07): Fix the incompatibility with NewLook 1.1; Fix bug that cannot print PS file which have long lines (more than 32,000 bytes)
1.4 (93/05/01): Change name to ShowPages (previously MacLPR); Several bugs fixed; Editable header and footer; Configurable border line; Can print text on clipboard; Add option which draws bounding box or grid line in printing Postscript code; Support AppleEvent
1.3.2 (93/01/30): Suppress 'dictfull' error on printing some Postscript codes; Now can cancel printing by cmd-. key
1.3 (92/11/16): Fix bug that hang-up when long line text printing; Add "wrapped around" option for plain text printing; Add the date of files in header on plain text printing; Add menu bar
1.2 (92/07/11): Change the appearance of setting dialog; Show setting dialog when launching with option key
1.1 (92/05/09): Initial version

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TextToMac

version: 1.32

TextToMac converts the end-of-line code of text files between Macintosh, MS-DOS/Windows, and UNIX formats.

Please replace older version of TextToMac with 1.32!!
TextToMac 1.31 or earlier has a bug that the conversion is incorrect when the last byte of internal I/O buffer of TextToMac is EOL code. In that case the EOL code is skipped, that is, the two lines are merged into one line. You may happen to meet this bug with the files larger than 128k and the probability is 1/(average length of lines).

1.32 (97/09/17): Fix bug that occasionally skip an EOL code.
1.31 (96/08/22): Add "Convert Folder" option
1.3 (96/03/08): Change progress bar style (Using Chriss Larson's Finder Progress Bar); Add menu bar; Allow background conversion; Add PowerMac version; Now doesn't use temporally memory
1.22 (96/03/07): Draw finder icon (in preferences dialog) with color; Add "fast convert" option
1.2 (93/10/01): Add progress bar; Improve the response of command-. cancel
1.1 (93/09/22): Fix incompatibility with virtual memory; Add balloon help; Add finder icon in preference dialog; Change the treat of file type of backup file; Support locked file
1.0 (93/09/02): Initial version

(64068 bytes)

When you try to Drag and Drop, TextToMac accepts only text file (that is, the FILE TYPE is 'TEXT'). If you want drop NON-TEXT file onto TextToMac, please use following file.

(version 1.32a; 59551 bytes)

This version of TextToMac (1.32a) accepts any types of dropped files (even if they were application files, jpeg files or sound files, etc) and try to convert them as TEXT file. It is very dangerous when mis-operation happens, so please use it carefully and please use it at your own risk.

touch

version: 1.2

Update the creation and modification date of files/folders. When folder was dropped on touch icon, it updates all files and folders which reside in that folder.

1.2 (94/02/24): Not published

(10337 bytes)

nkf+

version: 1.92

nkf+ converts kanji code (SJIS/JIS/EUC) and end of line character (CR/LF/CRLF). It also works as a viewer for text file (only first 32,000 bytes will be shown)

1.92 (94/01/??): Not published

(23475 bytes)

WIMM (Where Is My Master?)

version: 1.0

WIMM reviel the creator of a file. If you drag and drop TeachText document onto WIMM icon, it's reveal TeachText application on Finder.

1.0 (94/09/02): Not published

(8781 bytes)