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Download Bean 2.4.0

Bean 2.4.0

  -  3.91 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    Bean 3.4.6

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X

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  • Author / Product

    James Hoover / External Link

  • Filename

    Bean-Install-2-4-0.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    9e82b7ff70e11aad65bf6e5abee49e18

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system. Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Bean 2.4.0.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Bean for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

Enhancements:
- the color, shape and the blink behavior of the text cursor can be altered using the controls found under Bean Preferences > General > Text Cursor (user suggestion)
- added File > Print Selection which will print only the selected text in a document. Multiple selections in a single document are merged, unless ‘Bean Preferences > Advanced > Document > Print Selection… separates multiple selections’ is enabled.
- Print Selection… is also available in the context menu (which appears when you right-click or control-click in the document area)
- the context menu for the document area and the Find/Replace fields now has an Insert menu that allows easy insertion of tabs, paragraph breaks, page breaks, line breaks, and non-breaking spaces
- Edit > Insert > Note (shortcut: Ctrl+Cmd+n) will insert a note in the document using the font, size, text color and highlight color set under Bean Preferences > Advanced > Notes Mode. Preferences for notes include automatically adding brackets and starting a new paragraph.
- Font > Notes Mode turns on *continuous* notes mode. Wherever the text cursor is placed, text typed there will start a new note. De-select Font > Notes Mode to return to normal editing. This is meant to be used like a ‘teacher’s red pen.’ Choose a distinctive font (example: Marker Felt) and color (red, or black with yellow highlight) that will make your notes stand out from the rest of the text. That way, you can later use Style > Select by > Font Style / Color / Highlight Color to select all notes and remove them. Notes cannot be hidden.
- added File > Show in Finder menu item. Hint: Cmd-click the title of a saved document in the title bar of its window to see its location.

Changes:
- File > Special New > With Current Selection can now use multiple text selections
- .doc and .odt files now use the default paper size found under System Preferences > Print > Default Paper Size (since Apple’s file conversion filters do not read in the paper size for these formats and users expecting A4 were getting U.S. Letter) (user suggestion)
- added a Header type: Title, Author page# (user suggestion)
- removed the Close button from the bottom of the Preferences window (because the window already has a close button in the upper left) (user suggestion)
- page breaks now display as a diamond when View > Show Invisibles is selected (user suggestion)

Bug Fixes:
- the display bug where the text cursor would leave little dots behind it is, I hope, now fixed (user reported)
- fixed a problem where memory wasn’t released when sheets were dismissed
- Edit > Insert > Signature Line works better now
- fixed a problem where the scrollbar would sometimes jump erratically when editing the middle of a long document with Center Cursor Vertically enabled
- fixed a bug where File > Special New > With Current Selection could create an untitled document that was erroneously assigned to plain text type before saving (user reported)
- fixed a bug where the type of measurement units initially used in the Bean Preferences > Style pane could be reported incorrectly as inches instead of centimeters (user reported)
- Edit > Remove > All Text Tables now works
- fixed a bug where unsaved and unedited documents created with File > Special New > With Current Selection would close without a save prompt

Code:
- UI tweaks, improved menu validation, cleaned up some code, documentation updated
- removed GPL legal language from JHFindPanel.[mh] (all files directly related to the Find Panel and its regular expression functions are covered by BSD or similarly permissive license)

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