If you're like us, you have to read long blocks of text on a monitor all the time, and it's kind of a pain for your eyes. E-books and long PDF articles would be great if they could somehow get diced into neat, readable columns. Hey, it works for newspapers. Well, Tofu brings that pleasant reading experience to the Mac.In a nutshell, Tofu cuts up what you're reading -- whether it's a PDF, a doc, or a chunk of text you've selected -- into columns. This is a good, because monitors are wider than the human eye is really comfortable with, and columns fit the text into your optimal scanning area for easy reading. Tofu's full screen mode and adjustable text size and colors are crucial, too. This app is good enough that we'll think twice before printing out something we can just read in Tofu.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-24-2008 @ 4:30PM
Jonathan Harford said...
It always surprised me that the ability to split a block of text into columns wasn't part of CSS.
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6-27-2008 @ 8:00AM
JAcheson said...
There used to be a multi-column HTML tag, back in the day. I don't think it was ever made official though, it was probably one of the browser-specific ones.
6-25-2008 @ 3:58PM
Ethan said...
Is it just me or is two-finger scrolling really awful in this app?
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6-25-2008 @ 3:45PM
neko said...
yeah, it flickers all over and i think it goes backwards. (possibly to emulate turning pages or something? it doesn't work right at all.)
i make sure not to touch the touchpad while using it.
6-25-2008 @ 3:59PM
Jay Hathaway said...
I was really happy with the way arrow-key scrolling worked in Tofu.
6-25-2008 @ 7:15PM
Ethan said...
That's exactly what I'm getting, flickering and going backwards. Yes jay, the arrows work but I much prefer the nuanced control of two finger scrolling on my macbook.
6-25-2008 @ 7:16PM
Jay Hathaway said...
Well, a lot of developers do read Download Squad, so maybe they'll take notice and try to improve the two-finger scrolling behavior. That would be great, because I've been using the heck out of Tofu.