What's up wth Zoot these days?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 6, 2009 at 02:22 AM

Jim,

A few months ago, I summarized information from Zoot’s developer, Tom Davis, about what would be coming in Zoot 6. Here’s is me quoting Tom:

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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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Of course, Tom Davis is always over optimistic in his estimates as to when the next version will be ready. I think we’re running about a month behind his latest estimate.

And, in case you’ve missed it, about a year ago, Tom did deliver Zoot 5, which is now a 32-bit application and greatly improved over the 16-bit application.

Steve Z.