Zoot News

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 17, 2008 at 04:52 PM

Over the weekend, Tom Davis answered some questions about the upcoming Zoot version 6.0 (beta supposedly coming in January) on the Zoot Yahoo Forum. Here is what he had to say (compiled from three separate messages) :

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In Zoot 6 you can capture an entire web page or any portion of the web page and Zoot will store it in any one of the following formats:

* Pure HTML (Zoot displays clip in built-in browser)
* Web Archive / MHTML (Zoot displays clip in built-in browser)
* RTF (Zoot converts the HTML to RTF and displays in RTF editor)

You’ll also have the same options to create Web Archives as files on disk (as you can now in z5).

If you save a clip in HTML/MHTML you can always convert it to RTF or plain text later with the click of a button.

All limitations will be lifted in z6, including length of the subject line, document size, # of folders, # of items, # of folder assignments per item, etc.

Z6 will also do e-mail POP/SMTP.

The browser lets you browse and also acts as a file viewer. With File Links, for example, if it’s a file link to a file type that can be displayed in the browser, you’ll see the document, with the option to not see it and have an RTF document to work with, which can be a form with fields. It’s really quite nifty.
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Needless to say, this is great news for all Zooters!

Steve Z.