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NFOPad is a small, fast and flexible combined nfo viewer and text editor. It is a clone of Microsoft's Notepad but with extra settings, and support for nfo files. The file extension is used to determine whether to use an ANSI or ASCII font. NFOPad also fully supports Unicode.

Features:
 - URL & e-mail follow
 - Highly customizable (fonts, colors, app. settings)
 - Built in ASCII-fonts for nfo files
 - Portable
 - Window auto width
 - Recently opened files list
 - Copy on select option
 - Shell integration
 - Extension determines font
 - Unicode support
 - Printing
 - Searching & replacing text
 - Go to line
 - Delete line
 - Drag-n-drop
 - Always on top option
 - Word wrap option
 - Close on ESC key


Screenshots
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Screenshot in Windows Vista
NFOPad in Vista
NFOpad and Notepad comparison
Notepad vs NFOPad



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Version history
[NFOPad 1.56]      2009-09-25
+ Program settings can now be saved to an INI file or the windows registry.
+ Added a READ ONLY notification in the status bar.
+ "TXT file" is now shown in the Windows Explorer's New menu (can be turned off in Options).
+ bugfix: fixed so force western latin encoding setting doesn't apply to unicode files.
+ bugfix: Save As and changing encoding would reload the wrong file (file saved correctly but wrong text loaded).

[NFOPad 1.55]      2009-06-22
+ New Options dialogue
+ Added Auto width, including settings in Options
+ Added operations for making the selected text uppercase, lowercase, sentence case, title case and inverted case
+ Added "Insert Time/Date"
+ Added support for URLs within {} and <>
+ Save dialog tweaks
+ bugfix: URL detection didn't work on uppercase addresses

[NFOPad 1.54]      2009-05-17
+ Made a new icon for NFOPad (and all associated files)
+ Added option to search text in reverse direction (shift+F3)
+ Improved URL/e-mail detection to handle addresses within parenthesis/brackets and detect the following keywords: http://, https://, ftp://, ftps://, file://, gopher://, news://, nntp://, telnet://, wais://, prospero://
+ Added Reopen current file (F5)
+ Optimized "Replace all" to be >40 times faster
+ Changing the encoding of a file when saving will refresh the text to reflect the change
+ Bug fixes

[NFOPad 1.53]      2009-04-13
+ Added option "Load NFO files with western latin encoding", true by default. NFO files was not displayed properly for users with a non latin OS language (such as Chinese or Japanese).
+ Added separate colors for nfo/txt
+ Made it easier to associate new extensions with NFOPad and also made it possible to set what font to use for each extension
+ Fixed so you can use Start->Run "nfopad" to start NFOPad, even when the program wasn't installed using the installer
+ Removed unwanted shortcuts (CTRL + H, J, I, M)
+ Font character set is used and saved properly
+ Improved unicode support in Find/Replace dialog
+ Suggested filename cleared on New
+ Program renamed to NFOPad with a capital P
+ Various fixes

[NFOPad 1.52]      2009-02-09
+ Added support for some rare line ending characters, fixes problems with some NFO files having double blank lines
+ SaveAs dialog now suggests the previous path and filename
+ Bugfix: extension detection was case sensitive
+ Bugfix: you could open several font/color dialogs in Options which would stall NFOpad
+ Bugfix: parts of the recent items list could be cleared and using several NFOpad could overwrite recent items
+ Some minor fixes

[NFOPad 1.51]      2009-01-09
+ Fixed so locked files can be opened by NFOpad (files used by some other process)
+ Additional Unicode support, encoding can be selected upon open and save
+ Fixed so the scrolled location in the file is preserved upon replace
+ The SaveAs dialog suggests the default extension from the opened file
+ Shift+delete to remove a line only applies if nothing is selected in the text (else the selection is removed as expected)

[NFOPad 1.5]       2008-12-01
+ Full Unicode support
+ "Copy on select" added which copies the selected text on mouse up, can be enabled in Options
+ "New Window" menu item added. Opens a new instance of NFOpad
+ Replace functionality added
+ Selected text is automatically copied to the search field
+ Search dialog has new settings for "always start from top" and "close on search"
+ Search dialog uses ASCII font if that is used in the text
+ Added support for Vista/XP themes.
+ Loading and saving of files rewritten (loading a large text is much faster)
+ Added option when using "extension determines font" to use either nfo or txt as default extension when saving and viewing files without extension
+ Increased max number of recent items to 20
+ Dropping a shortcut (.lnk) on NFOpad will open the referenced file as expected
+ Optimized url and e-mail detection which could be really slow on large text files
+ Changed how the application settings are stored, this unfortunately means all your old settings will be wiped
+ Readme added to Help menu
+ The standard windows taskbar menu items added
+ Fixed some printing issues
+ Fixed bug when clicking on an address in the text if it was on the last line
+ Default settings changed for text font and recent files count
+ Finally got rid of some old bugs

[NFOPad 1.42]      2008-10-07
+ Recent files list added to File menu
+ Shift+delete deletes the line
+ Fixed bug which asked if the user wanted to save changes twice
+ Updated some dialogs
+ Tooltip fixes
+ Fixed so UTF byte-order marks aren't displayed in the text (but keeps it when saved)

[NFOPad 1.41]      2008-03-24
+ E-mail address follow added (opens default e-mail client)
+ Added CTRL+click as default on e-mail and URL following
+ URL/e-mail follow tweaks and optimizations
+ Fixed small bug with the status bar not being updated

[NFOPad 1.4]       2007-11-24
+ URL follow (on double or single click)
+ Status bar added, shows current line, column and full path
+ Goto line function added (CTRL+G)
+ Warning added when trying to save a file marked as read-only
+ Some minor fixes

[NFOPad 1.3]       2007-05-21
+ New ASCII fonts included for the nfo-files!
+ Font, font style and font size can be changed for both nfo and txt files
+ Printing of ASCII text possible
+ "Always on top" option added
+ Fixed bug with printing the text which messed up the tabs
+ When searching, the selected text is automatically copied to the search dialog
+ Fixed bug with NFOpad crashing if the computer had no default printer installed (WinXP/Vista)
+ Fixed so when saving and having word wrap enabled, the text is not scrolled to the top anymore
+ "Save changes to text?" dialog has a Cancel button
+ Options dialog tab order fixed

[NFOPad 1.2]       2007-01-08
+ New search dialog, search options updated
+ Fixed bug that made program save wrapped text on new lines
+ Updated associations options
+ Default bg color tweaked
+ Printing bugs fixed, still only plain text though
+ Maximized flag saved, fixes issues when closing the program when maximized
+ Default font when "use extension to determine font" is changed to fixedsys
+ Save dialog filters updated
+ Namelist changed to show filename first
+ Fixed bug with name list not being able to handle long filenames or spaces (in certain cases)
+ Fixed bug with font not being updated on save file

[NFOPad 1.1]       2006-10-08
+ Searching the text is now possible
+ Added support for dropping files on the program
+ Printing is now possible, the output is plain text though
+ The program will check the extension in order to set the correct font
+ Added support for additional text encoding formats
+ Program will quit on ESC
+ More shortcut keys for main menu added
+ Removed first time message about context integration (the feature can be set upon install or in options)
+ Options added: Use extension to determine font
+ Options added: Ask to save unsaved document upon exit
+ Options added: Close program on ESC key
+ Minor updates and bug fixes

[NFOPad 1.0]       2004-03-08
+ first official version



Download older versions
NFOPad 1.55 (rar)
NFOPad 1.54 (zip)
NFOPad 1.53 (zip)
NFOPad 1.52 (zip)
NFOPad 1.51 (zip)
NFOPad 1.5 (zip)
NFOPad 1.42 (zip)
NFOPad 1.41
NFOPad 1.4
NFOPad 1.3
NFOPad 1.2
NFOPad 1.1
NFOPad 1.0



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