Text File Reader For Mac
And iBackup Viewer will try to name the file with internal information by default, You can choose your own while saving single file. Preview app files in different mode You can preview files as text, binary, image and property list format. Acrobat automatically applies optical character recognition (OCR) to your document and converts it to a fully editable copy of your PDF. Click the text element you wish to edit and start typing. New text matches the look of the original fonts in your scanned image. Choose File > Save As and type a new name for your editable document.
does what it should!
The user interface is far from intuitive. Also, it only allows to display the first x lines of a file without even saying how many lines it contains. What if I want to see the last 5 lines? Do I set the number of lines to an arbitrarily high number and scroll to the end? But even doing that e.g. setting the number of lines to 1 million doesn't work: The program seems to freeze. It might eventually come back but I haven't had the patience to wait longer than 5 minutes. Sorry, that's just no solution. (I am talking about a 40 gigabyte text file here. To get such a file, download Wikipedia (seriously!))
Given that I use this many times a day for viewing large bioinformatics files I perhaps ought to add some feedback. I ticked OK for support because I have not needed any, so have no way of judging. There should be a 'not known' box. I suspect that it would be possible to make text searching a little faster, which is why design is good, and not excellent
well worked! for my win7+4G, it succeeded in show first 30 lines of 2G text file in 1 second, but when its 100 lines, it shows 'no response' for a while
It can show only a few lines from beginning of a file.
I've created a text file from an application that I developed.
When I send the text file to a SYSTEM validation, they (third-party system) say that the file is invalid and that the file contains three characters in the beginning of the file that are not allowed as well special characters are not correct.
They also say I need to use either ISO 8859-1 or PC850.
Well, I'm using Notepad++, and I can't see that at all! What is the best text file reader for these kind of problems?
I also have a Mac and just thought I remembered opening in TextMate ... WOW!Now I know what they are talking about!
How can I have the same in Windows?
Peter Mortensen3 Answers
Well, I'm using NotePad++ and I can't see that at all! What is the best text file reader for this kind of problems?
The problem is, a ‘good’ text editor should be able to load all text encodings transparently — even stupid broken ones like UTF-8-plus-BOM — which would prevent you from seeing the problem. Sure, a good text editor should save UTF-8 without the bogus-BOM, or at least give you the option to do so, but you won't know to re-save it if you don't see the faux-BOM there.
The reason you see the three high-bytes at the start of the file in TextMate is actually because TextMate has got it wrong and guessed the encoding as Latin-1 instead of UTF-8. This presumably reproduces the behaviour of the service you're sending to which don't know about Unicode, but it's not really a desirable feature in itself. It's also why the æs and øs haven't come out.
If you want to see every byte in the file explicitly, what you want isn't really a text editor, but a hex editor. There are lots to choose from, eg. xvi32 on Windows.
And then fix your application to not produce bogus BOMs; they have no place in a UTF-8 file anyway, never mind the problems it causes to non-Unicode applications. [I don't know what the application is written in, but a common cause of unwanted BOMs is using .NET's Encoding.UTF8 encoding. A new UTF8Encoding(false) would be preferable.]
Whether the service you're sending to wants UTF-8 or some other encoding is in any case something you'll have to ask the operators of that service. If they're already describing the high-bytes for æ et al in your file as inherently ‘invalid’, you may be facing a situation where they don't support any non-ASCII characters at all, in which case you'll have to consider transliterating characters appropriately for the target language, eg. æ->ae.
An easy way to view this kind of stuff in Windows is to use the 'type' command.
I would do something like this:
Windows File Reader For Mac
Frhed jumps to my mind...it is a very nice tool. And as Arjan pointed out, you're saving the file as UTF-8 encoded document.
Bobby