5 Replies Latest reply: Sep 22, 2010 11:38 AM by peter at knowhowpro RSS

    What’s best TextExpander program for Mac ID5?

    Big Jimm Community Member

      I have latest Mac Sys. and use ID5  7.0.2.

       

      I know there’s a program called TextExpander. But, there are complaints about their new ver. 3 that don’t sound good.

       

      I'm currently using Typinator which I LOVE - and it works great in EVERY program, EXCEPT that just a few days ago it quit working (correctly) in ID. Don’t know if I got some kind of Auto update that conflicted, or what. Just know that it quit working well a week or two ago.

       

      ALSO - Spell Catcher would NEVER work right in ID5. It, too, always worked good with ALL OTHER programs. So, what’s up with ID5 and spell catching and word expanding? (I'm mainly interested in word expanding).

       

      Any suggestions for the best word expanding program for ID5? Or, what can I do to make these programs work good in ID5?

       

      Thank you.

       

      Jim

        • 1. Re: What’s best TextExpander program for Mac ID5?
          peter at knowhowpro Community Member

          Big Jimm wrote:

           

          I have latest Mac Sys. and use ID5  7.0.2.

           

          I know there’s a program called TextExpander. But, there are complaints about their new ver. 3 that don’t sound good.

           

          I'm currently using Typinator which I LOVE - and it works great in EVERY program, EXCEPT that just a few days ago it quit working (correctly) in ID. Don’t know if I got some kind of Auto update that conflicted, or what. Just know that it quit working well a week or two ago.

           

          ALSO - Spell Catcher would NEVER work right in ID5. It, too, always worked good with ALL OTHER programs. So, what’s up with ID5 and spell catching and word expanding? (I'm mainly interested in word expanding).

           

          Any suggestions for the best word expanding program for ID5? Or, what can I do to make these programs work good in ID5?

           

          Thank you.

           

          Jim

          I haven't followed the chat on TE 3.x. I'm using 2.8.1 and the main problem I've had in some apps or environments has been the expansion characters getting garbled. I used the option to have the expansion to take place after typing a delimiting character - my delimiters included space, parens, other punctuation - and also retaining the delimiter. When I changed the expansion to take place as soon as the final character of the expansion is typed, it looks like there are no problem areas, except for my having to change my expectation of when the expansion will occur.

           

           

          HTH

           

          Regards,

           

          Peter

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          • 2. Re: What’s best TextExpander program for Mac ID5?
            Big Jimm Community Member

            SPACING -

             

            Yes, that’s the problem that started with Typinator in ID5 about 2 weeks ago. (After it had been working fine in ID5 since it came out in April. It stopped putting a space in after my expanded word then puts TWO spaces in after the next word.

             

            Has ID5 sent us an update of some kind in the past couple of weeks?

             

            Remember, Typinator works GREAT in every program except ID5. (Even here). And worked good in ID4. Wouldn’t an Adobe word expander be a GREAT new feature for ID6?

             

            Jim

            • 3. Re: What’s best TextExpander program for Mac ID5?
              peter at knowhowpro Community Member

              Big Jimm wrote:

               

              SPACING -

               

              Yes, that’s the problem that started with Typinator in ID5 about 2 weeks ago. (After it had been working fine in ID5 since it came out in April. It stopped putting a space in after my expanded word then puts TWO spaces in after the next word.

               

              Has ID5 sent us an update of some kind in the past couple of weeks?

               

              Remember, Typinator works GREAT in every program except ID5. (Even here). And worked good in ID4. Wouldn’t an Adobe word expander be a GREAT new feature for ID6?

               

              Jim

              My Type Expander 2.x even works in text input areas of dialog boxes and panels, including the Quick Apply text input area.

               

              Have you looked at Preferences > Autocorrect? It doesn't handle special characters, but might suit. [Edit] It doesn't work in text input areas.[/EDIT]

               

              If you think it needs improvement or a dedicated type expander feature, request it here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

               

               

              HTH

               

              Regards,

               

              Peter

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              • 4. Re: What’s best TextExpander program for Mac ID5?
                Big Jimm Community Member

                Thanks Peter. I did check that out, but no help. I never did learn to type with many fingers so type-expanders have been a BIG part of my communication life, and now that I'm old, even more so. So, I’d really love it this subject could remain until someone spots the problem. Or, the PERFECT expander that will work with ALL programs as Typinator does. (Again, the only program that Typinator won’t work with - all of a sudden now - is ID).

                 

                My son has been in touch with Typinator Techs for me and they can’t find ANYTHING that would make Typinator start to do this in ID in the past 2-3 weeks.

                 

                Did Adobe have any tiny updates in ID recently?

                 

                Thanks to all.

                 

                Jim

                • 5. Re: What’s best TextExpander program for Mac ID5?
                  peter at knowhowpro Community Member

                  Big Jimm wrote:

                   

                  Thanks Peter. I did check that out, but no help. I never did learn to type with many fingers so type-expanders have been a BIG part of my communication life, and now that I'm old, even more so. So, I’d really love it this subject could remain until someone spots the problem. Or, the PERFECT expander that will work with ALL programs as Typinator does. (Again, the only program that Typinator won’t work with - all of a sudden now - is ID).

                   

                  My son has been in touch with Typinator Techs for me and they can’t find ANYTHING that would make Typinator start to do this in ID in the past 2-3 weeks.

                   

                  Did Adobe have any tiny updates in ID recently?

                   

                  Thanks to all.

                   

                  Jim

                  Look for update info at Help > Updates...

                   

                  See my earlier post for the link to the wishform, where you can file a formal request for an enhancement, and a separate report as a bug. Contact Typinator directly, and escalate your problem to the highest-level tech supervisor manager; ask that they contact Adobe to work on fixing Typinator.

                   

                   

                  HTH

                   

                  Regards,

                   

                  Peter

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