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Download Bean 2.4.2

Bean 2.4.2

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  • Latest Version

    Bean 3.4.6

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X

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  • Author / Product

    James Hoover / External Link

  • Filename

    Bean-Install-2-4-2.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    51a179b3069fc36731c790a78e454227

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 2.4.2.


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:

- Changes (to accomodate OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard) Under Snow Leopard, Bean by default now does automatic text substitution (for example, substituting 'the' for 'teh' or changing (c) to ©). Text substitutions are controlled at System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > Symbol and Text Substitution. Substitution can be turned off during an editing session by unchecking Substitutions > Text Replacement in the context menu of the document. There is a hidden preference setting which disables text substitutions for all documents: quit Bean and paste this command into a Terminal.app session (change NO to YES to re-enable it):
- defaults write com.SevenYearsDreaming.Bean prefTextReplacement -bool NO Similarly, under Snow Leopard, typographic dash substitution (off by default) can be enabled by using this command:
- defaults write com.SevenYearsDreaming.Bean prefDashSubstitution -bool YES Under Snow Leopard, when you double-click a document icon in the Finder, the filename extension determines what application opens the file. This means that an .rtf or .rtfd document created in Bean opens (by default) in Text Edit. Since this is probably not the expected behavior, I've changed the code so that .rtf and .rtfd files saved in Bean now open in Bean (by using the Finder's 'Open With…' override). Files in other formats saved by Bean will still open in the default application associated with that file (usually, Text Edit). To disable this behavior, quit Bean, and paste this command into a Terminal.app session (change NO to YES to re-enable it):
- defaults write com.SevenYearsDreaming.Bean prefAssociateDocumentWithBean -bool NO
- Note that you can associate all document files of a particular type (that is, having the same filename extension) with a different default application by using the 'Change All...' button in the Finder's 'Get Info…' panel.

Services:
- Under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, you must enable the individual Services offered by Bean if you wish them to appear in the Services menu and the document's context menu (see System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services). To review, Bean offers the following services: New Bean Document Containing Selection, Paste Selection into Current Bean Document, HTML Snippit from Selection, HTML+CSS Snippit from Selection, Recover Text from Selected File.
- The 'Lorem Ipsum' service, although useful in concept, no longer works correctly under Snow Leopard and has been removed. This is apparently due to a Snow Leopard bug which prevents an app from vending a text-transformation service to its own documents, resulting in a freeze (rdr://7355325).

Bugfixes:
- Spotlight now indexes the contents of .bean format files.
- Fixed a bug where the preference 'Suggest filename at first save' did not work under Snow Leopard.
- Fixed a bug where resizing an image would temporarily blur it under Snow Leopard.
- Fixed some leaks revealed by Static Analysis.
- Fixed a problem where the List Marker… panel could appear on the Find/Replace window instead of a document window.
- Tried to fix internationalized help files...it seems like sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, even when the help caches cleaned
- Fixed a permissions glitch that could cause the Italian localization not to work.
- Fixed a problem with alternate colors that could cause erratic behavior in Bean and produce '-redComponent not defined' console error message.

Code/Localization:
- Because this is a bugfix release, no changes were made to the user interface in this version that require changes to the included localizations.

Changes:
- Slightly revised Danish, Slovak translations.
- Renamed Italian localization folder for Snow Leopard compatibility.

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