What’s New in TextSoap 8

General

If you are coming from a previous version of TextSoap, here is a quick rundown of some of the changes you may notice. We’re always working to improve the experience.

New User Experience

The focus was on content over “chrome” (extraneous UI elements). The idea is reduce the elements that may distract from the content you’re working on, whether it is the text in the text editor or actions in the custom cleaner editor.

Toolbar

Text Editor Improvements

Custom Cleaners and Groups Navigator Window

Custom Cleaners and Groups Navigator provides a single access point to many of the features of TextSoap 8. You have access to

The Navigator also provides a means to add, remove, import and export both cleaners and groups.

Double-click the cleaner or group to open the editor for it.

Libraries

Sometimes you want to import or export a collection of cleaners or groups. When exporting, selecting the Library option will allow multiple cleaners to be stored in a single library. Import supports both single cleaners and libraries.

Custom Cleaner Editor

The Custom Cleaner Editor was rewritten.

Custom Group Editor

The Custom Group Editor has also been rewritten. The focus with the new editor is to allow more direct editing of group elements.

New Cleaners

Along with the variety new interface improvements, we’ve added new built-in cleaners. Many of these are based on requests from customers.

Misc

MyScrub

The MyScrub editor has been replaces with a MyScrub preference. To create custom behavior, create a custom cleaner and select that cleaner in preferences. To change which custom cleaner to use, go to Preferences > General.

Suggestion: Name your custom cleaner 'Customized Scrub' to easily identify it. As a bonus, you can now use any custom cleaner actions (find & replace, etc) with this approach.