Desktop Applications

TextEditor+ was born out of my need for a fast, simple text editor that had a syntax highlighying option. Not finding a suitable option that met my needs, I developed an HTML/browser-based version called Web TextEditor that's hosted on this site. TextEditor+ is an OS-native fork of Web TextEditor and keeps the same look and features, while adding many additional features such as native file handling, printing, find and replace, etc.

Features

• Fast and lightweight: a native C++/Qt 6 application that opens quickly and remains responsive
• Syntax highlighting for HTML (with embedded script and style), CSS, JavaScript, C and C++
• Dark and light modes (themes): Dracula (dark) and Eclipse (light)
• Find and replace with match case, whole word, regular expressions and back-references
• Line numbers, current-line highlight, auto-indent and word wrap
• Faithful saving that preserves line endings and encodings (UNIX or DOS)
• OS-native file dialogues, drag-and-drop, “Open With” and command-line paths
• Security safeguards against opening binary, very large or special files by mistake

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Prefer not to install anything? Try Web TextEditor in your browser. See the release notes for what’s new.

XPreview+ is a viewer for PDF documents, images, RTF and OpenDocument text, in the spirit of macOS Preview. It can export anything it opens to PDF, and its own RTF and ODT renderer means you don’t need Word or LibreOffice to read those files.

Features

• Opens multiple file formats: PDFs (including password-protected PDFs), images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, multi-page TIFF, BMP and SVG; HEIC and JPEG 2000 on macOS), RTF and OpenDocument text (ODT, OTT, FODT)
• Export documents and files as PDFs. For any compatible file: PDFs are copied as-is (byte for byte); RTF and ODT become vector pages with selectable, searchable text
• Built-in RTF and ODT reader that handles fonts, colors, lists, tables with merged cells, images, headers and footers, and footnotes, using metric-compatible fonts so pages break as in the original
• Fast performance: Qick to load, tiled rendering, smooth zoom and trackpad gestures
• Search with highlighted results, text selection and copy, clickable links and printing
• Private: Runs locally on your computer and never connects to the internet, runs macros or scripts, or loads external files a document references
• Security-hardened: every file is treated as high-seßurity, with bounded, fuzz-tested parsers

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Read the user manual (PDF), or see the release notes for what’s new. Linux builds from source have not yet been tested.

ProtMate handles common laboratory calculations for biochemical and biophysical work. It comes as a desktop application whose results update as you type, and as pmate, a terminal application for use on desktops, servers, SSH sessions and for users who prefer a keyboard-centric interface. Both share a common calculation library, so they yield identical results and write identical reports.

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Also available: a Linux ARM64 AppImage and stand-alone pmate terminal builds for macOS, Linux x86-64 and Linux ARM64. Read the user guide (PDF), or try Web ProtMate in your browser.