What's the difference between NoteTab Pro, Std and Light?

The NoteTab Family

The NoteTab™ family of editors is composed of three variants (see the comparison chart for more details):

1. NoteTab Pro (Retail)

  • Very fast
  • Multi-level undo/redo
  • Bookmarks
  • Line-count ruler
  • URL, HTML and CSS highlighting
  • Show/Hide non-printing characters
  • Spell checker and thesaurus
  • Full support for NoteTab-Outline documents
  • Search with wildcards
  • Search/replace text in files on disk
  • Customizable menu shortcuts
  • Options for word wrap at column, tab types, etc.
  • Read and write EBCDIC files
  • Supports fixed-pitch OEM fonts
  • Trial version from http://www.notetab.com/downloads.php
  • Cost: $39.95 USD (Minor updates are free; includes NoteTab Standard)

2. NoteTab Standard (Retail)

  • Spell checker and thesaurus
  • Full support for NoteTab-Outline documents
  • Search with wildcards
  • Search/replace text in files on disk
  • Customizable menu shortcuts
  • Can display variable- and fixed-width fonts
  • Full support for double-byte character sets and right-to-left scripts.
  • Cannot display fonts with OEM character sets (Terminal, MS Line Draw,...)
  • Read and write EBCDIC files
  • Cost: $39.95 USD (Minor updates are free; bundled with NoteTab Pro)

3. NoteTab Light (Freeware)

  • Same features as NoteTab Standard except those listed below:
  • No Print Preview option
  • No spell checker or thesaurus
  • Can read NoteTab Outline documents but cannot create or edit them
  • No Clipbars (user-made toolbars)
  • No "Reformat Lines" or "Justify" command
  • No customizable menu shortcuts
  • Can search for text in disk files but cannot perform replace operations
  • Can read EBCDIC files but cannot create or modify them
  • Available from http://www.notetab.com/downloads.php
  • Freeware!

NoteTab Comparison Chart

1. Text editing

Pro

Std

Light

Wildcard searching

Yes

Yes

No

Disk search & replace

Yes

Yes

No

Real-time word count

Yes

Yes

No

Advanced word statistics

Yes

Yes

No

Create "Outline" (multi-section) documents

Yes

Yes

No

Thesaurus (English)

Yes

Yes

No

Spell checker (10 languages)

Yes

Yes

No

Pasteboard (capture Clipboard text)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Create and reuse text snippets

Yes

Yes

Yes

In-text calculations

Yes

Yes

Yes

Multi-level undo/redo

Yes

No

No

Use variable-width fonts

No

Yes

Yes

Print preview

Yes

Yes

No

URL highlighting in plain text files

Yes

No

No

 
 
2. Web development

Pro

Std

Light

Syntax highlighting for HTML & CSS

Yes

No

No

Support for HTML5 & CSS3

Yes

Yes

Yes

HTML & CSS code libraries

Yes

Yes

Yes

Twitter Bootstrap code library

Yes

Yes

Yes

Autocomplete HTML code

Yes

Yes

Yes

Web page templates

Yes

Yes

Yes

Group project files together

Yes

Yes

Yes

Improve your code with HTML Tidy

Yes

Yes

Yes

HTML to Text conversion

Yes

Yes

Yes

Text to HTML conversion

Yes

Yes

Yes

 
 
3. Advanced users

Pro

Std

Light

Scriptable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Custom toolbars for scripts

Yes

Yes

No

PCRE Regular Expressions

Yes

Yes

Yes

Show non-printing characters

Yes

No

No

Bookmarks in text

Yes

No

No

Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Yes

Yes

No

Wordstar keyboard shortcuts

Yes

No

No

Save in EBCDIC format

Yes

Yes

No

Wrap text to column in real time

Yes

No

No

Line number toggle

Yes

No

No

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