FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STUDIO 405 ANNOUNCES TEXT CLEANER 2

Takoma Park, MD MARCH 19, 2001--Studio 405, Inc. announced the release of
Text Cleaner 2, the premier text preparation utility for typesetters and
graphic designers, editors, and anyone working with text for print or Web
publication.

Text Cleaner was designed to eliminate the need for common
search-and-replace routines to prepare text for print or Web publication.
Correct typesetting marks and input error correction are handled in one
pass. Text Cleaner's unique, easy-to-use and intelligent approach
significantly reduces text manipulation time. New features in this version
include unlimited presets, a speed increase up to 300%, user-defined
cleaning options, custom DropClean applets, importing and exporting of
presets and improved cleaning of QuarkXpress documents.

Text Cleaner feature highlights:

* Cleans text files
* Cleans text on clipboard
* Cleans text within QuarkXpress while retaining style information
* Drag and drop cleaning of text files on the desktop
* Performs cleaning operations in the best possible sequence
* User-defined cleaning operations use smart search and replace
* User presets save snapshots of settings for instant recall
* Importing and exporting of presets for easier standardization on
multiple Macs.
* Custom DropClean applets can be created to utilize presets
* Built-in conversions include: removing multiple spaces, returns and
tabs; creating curly or straight quotes; correcting foot and inch
measurements; correcting apostrophes for year abbreviations; creating
or removing en and em dashes; removing spaces before and after tabs,
returns, hyphens and em dashes; creating or removing ligatures and
ellipses; removing PC Line feeds; removing email quote symbols;
converting line breaks to wrapped text

System requirements: PowerMacintosh computer with 8 megabytes of free hard
disk space and operating system 8.1 to 9.1 with 7 megabytes of free RAM.

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. To find out more about Text Cleaner, see
(http://www.studio405.com/textcleaner/).

Studio 405, Inc. is a graphic design and computer consulting firm, offering
solutions since 1991. Additional Text Cleaner information is available at
(http://www.studio405.com/textcleaner/).

Webmasters, please link to (http://www.studio405.com/textcleaner/).

Studio 405, Inc.
6930 Carroll Ave
Suite 710
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Phone: 301-270-8445
Fax: 301-270-8446