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BBEdit HTML to Text

This script uses BBEdit to convert HTML to lightly formatted text. Unlike BBEdit's "Translate" utility, this maintains links, image ALT text, and even formats headers and bold text as all-caps. The formatting is ideal for making plain text versions of HTML email messages -- which is the reason I created it in the first place.

For best results, drop this in the BBEdit Scripts folder. (you can open it from BBEdit's script menu!)

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BBEdit HTML to Text

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inik: RT @thinkprogress: .@komenforthecure head says responses to Planned Parenthood decision are "very favorable." If your response is unfavo ... >
inik: @FluidApp I'm getting errors in a Fluid app Gmail and can't use chat either. Any ideas? >
inik: finished Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit et al. and gave it 5 stars http://t.co/mspysk1B #Kindle >
inik: How to use an obscure shell command to let your AppleScripts and shell scripts output rich text. http://t.co/3Y9dAHiH >
inik: Nicholas "Nik" Friedman TeBockhorst http://t.co/I6kGmcDg >

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I love Seth's quote at the top. I think that's my new motto.. ; )

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Griping about OS X Lion? Here's two nifty tools that replace a variety of poorly supported third party tools: Command-line and Automator access to video and audio conversion. Super easy to use, and very flexible and supports any format that Quicktime can encode/decode. (So Perian is a must-install if you want to handle DivX/3viX, etc.)

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Fix Google Reader's horrible new interface with this user script! Now it fits nicely on my MacBook's small screen. >
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What makes this ad awesome is not the true-to-life irony, because the idea is hardly innovative, but rather the excellent execution. Reminds me a bit of that excellent Nutri-Grain spec commercial. Quick delivery, good actors, hit all the high notes. Love it. >

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