Bare Bones Software Ships BBEdit 8.0
Major Upgrade to Professional HTML and Text Editor With Over 100 New Features and Enhancements Designed to Increase Productivity
BEDFORD, Mass. - August 30, 2004 - Bare Bones Software, Inc., developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit(R) 8.0, a major upgrade to its award-winning HTML and text editor.
BBEdit 8.0 introduces over one hundred new features and improvements, including a new Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar interface, new Text Factories for automating text processing, numerous enhancements to the product's signature HTML markup tools, improved Unicode support, integrated support for Perforce, and much more. BBEdit 8.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5.
"BBEdit has always provided deep HTML and text editing capabilities with a clean interface," said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc. "For version 8.0, we have distilled our years of Mac development experience and customer feedback into a set of exciting new features to enhance our customers' productivity."
BBEdit 8.0 introduces new interface options to allow multiple documents to be opened into a single window, and to provide easy, efficient navigation between multiple open documents. The Documents Drawer presents a list of open documents in a given editing window, and switches to another document with a single keystroke or mouse gesture. The Navigation Bar works alone, or in concert with the Documents Drawer, to provide an alternate interface for switching between documents in a window while conserving screen real estate.
Building on BBEdit's strong text processing and transformation abilities, the new Text Factory feature now, for the first time, provides a mechanism to apply BBEdit's powerful arsenal of tools across multiple files and folders, quickly and easily. Text Factories allow the BBEdit customer to create a list of individual text-processing operations, and apply them in order and with corresponding options, over a designated document, or set of documents and folders. No scripting or programming is necessary to create a Text Factory. A Text Factory may run in the background, may include AppleScripts or Unix scripts, and may be saved for future use.
Version 8.0 incorporates significant advances to BBEdit's signature HTML markup tools, including enhanced CSS markup tools and a more flexible HTML syntax checker with support for "exclusion zones" and partial-document checking. New Preview Server support enables previewing of pages which require server-side processing before rendering. The newly integrated HTML Tidy tool formats and cleans up HTML code, and can be used to convert between HTML and XHTML.
BBEdit 8.0 features enhanced support for editing and processing Unicode text files, and can now work with documents written in multiple Unicode-represented languages.
BBEdit's already legendary multi-file search and replace capabilities have been enhanced in version 8.0 to support the searching of multiple discrete files and folders as selected by the customer. Multiple multi-file search and replace operations now run as background tasks, leaving the application usable for other purposes.
Seamless integration with the Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management System (SCM) now allows BBEdit 8.0 customers to perform Perforce functions within BBEdit. The leading commercial version control system, Perforce is used in large and small enterprises for multi-file updates, concurrent development, and managing multiple software releases. Additional information about Perforce Software Inc. and its products can be found at http://www.perforce.com/.
"Perforce has always been in the forefront of providing SCM support for the Macintosh," said Nigel Chanter, chief operating officer of Perforce Software. "Now with this seamless integration with BBEdit, developers have access to a winning combination of tools."
Additional integration with the Unix command-line environment includes enhancements to the "bbedit" command-line tool, a new "bbdiff" tool for invoking BBEdit's powerful "Find Differences," support for Perl debugging using the Affrus environment from Late Night Software http://www.latenightsw.com/, and integration with Exuberant Ctags http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ for source-code indexing and navigation.
For more information on BBEdit, or to download a fully functional demo version, visit the company's web site:
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml
Pricing and Availability
Through October 31, 2004, BBEdit 8.0 is available at an introductory price of US$179, with a suggested retail price of US$199 effective November 1, 2004. Anyone who purchased BBEdit on or after June 1, 2004 is eligible to receive a free upgrade, and, if purchased directly from Bare Bones Software, will be notified automatically via email.
BBEdit 8.0 may be purchased directly from Bare Bones Software and many major Macintosh software resellers. For a partial listing of domestic and international resellers, visit:
http://www.barebones.com/store/resellers.shtml
All registered owners of BBEdit version 2.5 and later are eligible to upgrade to BBEdit 8.0 by ordering directly from Bare Bones Software. Registered owners of BBEdit 7.0 and 7.1 who are not eligible for the free upgrade can upgrade for US$49; registered owners of BBEdit 6.5 and older can upgrade for US$59.
A discounted cross-upgrade price of US$129 is available to owners of BBEdit Lite, Adobe GoLive, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Educational discounts and site license pricing are also available. For details please visit the company's web site at http://www.barebones.com/store/index.shtml, send email to sales@barebones.com, or call (781) 687-0700.
About Bare Bones Software, Inc.
Bare Bones Software, Inc., incorporated in 1994, is a privately-held corporation based in Bedford, MA. BBEdit, the company's flagship product, has received numerous accolades from press and users, including a 2001 Macworld Editor's Choice Award, a "Great" rating from MacAddict Magazine, and a rating of 4-and-a-half mice from Macworld Magazine. The company's expanding product family also includes TextWrangler, a high-performance plain text editor, Mailsmith, and Super Get Info. For more information, visit http://www.barebones.com/ or send email to sales@barebones.com.
TextWrangler, Super Get Info and the Bare Bones Software logo are trademarks of, and BBEdit, Mailsmith and "It doesn't suck" are registered trademarks of Bare Bones Software, Inc. Copyright (c) 2004, All rights reserved. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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