General Features

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Cross Platform, runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

Predefined sets of comparison options let you quickly switch settings to the optimal set of options for any situation.  You can also save new sets of options.

Save and load sessions to quickly repeat commonly used comparisons.

Save results in HTML and XML formats.

Customize the colors used while displaying results.

Difference Navigator allows you to view the results of a comparison at a glance and quickly jump to different sections of the results.

Filter the results and change the visibility of columns to show only relevant information.

Search the results to find specific information

Command line interface allows you to automate selected functionality within zsCompare. (Works best on Windows Operating System)

Create and run Scripts to automate the complete functionality of zsCompare on all operating systems.

Includes a copy of the program on CD with a getting started guide.  CD includes installations for all operating systems.

Includes a printed user's manual.

Directory Comparison Features

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Compare Files and Folders on the same computer, networked computers, or removable media such as CDs, DVDs, and Flash Drives.

Compare Zip Files, Jar Files, and any other file which uses the Zip File Format.

Copy, Delete, and Synchronize files and folders between the folders being compared.

Advanced Synchronization gives you complete control over the synchronization process by letting you specify what action to perform on each specific type of result.  You can even choose to have zsCompare prompt you for each file.

Copy file paths to the clipboard, drag files to other locations, open files, and show files in the file system directly from the results.

Create and Compare Snapshots of folders.  Snapshots contain information about files and folders within the snapshot but do not contain the actual file contents.

Create and Apply Patch files for individual files.  Patch files contain the differences between an original file and a later version.  The patch file can be used to recreate the later version from the original file.

Create and Apply Patch files for directories and the files within the directories in a single patch file.

Create and Apply Patch files for multiple original files to a single later version within a single patch file.

Change last modified dates directly from the results.

Change attributes of files directly from the results.

Rename files directly from the results

Filter files to be compared using regular expressions.

File Comparison Features

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Compare Text Files

Compare Binary Files and view the results as binary (hexadecimal format).

Compare lines of text by character, by word, or by line.

Break lines after a specified number of characters.

Break lines after a specified regular expression which makes comparing and editing formatted files like HTML and XML easier.

Compare line break characters (end of line characters).

Copy, Delete, and Synchronize lines within the files being compared.

Compare files in formats other than ASCII (i.e. Unicode).

Compare files where the lines are not ordered.

Directly edit text in the results.

Compare Text from Microsoft Word Documents.

Compare Text from PDF files.

Freeform Text Comparison Features

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Compare portions of files.

Compare text from non file based sources like the clipboard, databases, web pages, etc.

All the additional features of File Comparisons with the same limitations be edition.