FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TEXT CLEANER LITE 1.6 FREEWARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Takoma Park, MD November 1, 1999–Studio 405, Inc. announced the immediate
availability of Text Cleaner Lite 1.6, an update to the Freeware text
utility for the Macintosh. New features include a speed increase, improved
cleaning sequences and the option to remove PC line feeds.

Text Cleaner was designed to eliminate the need for common
search-and-replace routines to prepare text for print or World-Wide Web
publication. Correct typesetting marks and input error correction is
handled in one pass. Text Cleaner Lite is compatible with any application
that allows copy and paste.

Text Cleaner Lite has much of the same cleaning abilities as the full
featured commercial release, Text Cleaner, with some limitations.

Text Cleaner Lite feature highlights:

Removes multiple spaces, returns and tabs
Creates curly or straight quotes
Corrects foot and inch measurement marks
Corrects apostrophes for year abbreviations
Creates or removes en and em dashes
Removes spaces before and after tabs, returns, hyphens and em dashes
Creates or removes ligatures and ellipses
Removes PC line feeds
Removes email quote symbols
Converts line breaks to wrapped text
Performs all cleaning operations in the best possible sequence
Uses the clipboard for easy copy and paste operation

Text Cleaner Lite is Freeware and can be downloaded from
(http://www.studio405.com/textcleaner/).

System requirements: Mac OS compatible computer with 4 megabytes of free
hard disk space and operating system 7.0 or higher with 2,000k of free RAM.

To find out more about Text Cleaner and Text Cleaner Lite, visit
(http://www.studio405.com/textcleaner/). Text Cleaner was given the Spiffy
Award by MacAddict, 5 out of 5 cows by Tucows, and called “indispensable”
by the Kleper Report on Digital Publishing.

Studio 405, Inc. is a graphic design and computer consulting firm, offering
solutions since 1991. Additional information on Text Cleaner is available
at (http://www.studio405.com/textcleaner/).
Studio 405, Inc.
6930 Carroll Ave
Suite 710
Takoma Park, MD 20912

Contact: Glenn Kowalski
Phone: 301-270-8445 Ext. 26.
Fax: 301-270-8446
Email: 405ware@studio405.com