Older Changes
3.0.642
9-Mar-2021
- Preparing for the release of version 4.0
3.0.641
9-Jan-2021
- Fixes an issue with selecting in the Navigator
3.0.640
3-Dec-2020
- Fixes a crash with reordering revisions
- Fixes a bug with highlighting in Create PDF
3.0.639
16-Nov-2020
- Setting built-in element styles to non-all-caps wasn't always sticking
- (CONTINUED) will now appear before a manual page break, where otherwise appropriate
- Report CSV output improvements
- Fixed a layout/display bug with typing in a revised paragraph
- Fixes to navigator drag-and-drop selection/target handling
- Better optimization of image-saving
- Cast report now includes words/lines
- Various additional improvements and fixes
- Mac - Improved undo/redo for synopsis editing, sticky notes, etc.
- Mac - Improved plain text clipboard support
- iOS - Fixed an issue with image exporting
3.0.636
8-Jul-2020
- Collaboration stability improvements
- Fixed a small style formatting bug
- Android - Had to correct for Dropbox breaking something on their side
- Android - Hopefully addressing a persistent Google Drive issue some users have encountered
- Android - Back navigation in cloud service navigates to parent folder, where possible
- iOS - Fixed note text color bug
3.0.635
6-Jun-2020
- Fixed a rendering issue on Windows and Linux at very small page sizes
- Formatted text import could drop the first line
- Improvements to file handling integrity when saving
- Enhanced collaboration error checking and debugging information
- Additional collaboration improvements
3.0.634
26-Apr-2020
- Fixed a recent regression causing a crash in Compare to Previous
- Fixed a recent regression causing a sporadic startup issue
- Improvements to PDF import
3.0.633
19-Apr-2020
- Better checking to make sure frame is onscreen at startup
- Find/Replace improvements for typographic quotes
- Fixed incorrect ordering of some Fountain export markup
- Fixed alignment of some highlighted text in Create PDF
- Suppression of an unnecessary message during PDF creation
- UI tweaks to Print/PDF setup dialog
- Fountain import enhancements
- Mobile - Fixes to plain text pasting
3.0.631
7-Mar-2020
- Fixed a regression from 630 with typing over a selection
- Linux - Warnings for a file changed on disk were not appearing correctly
- Android - Fixed a regression from 630 affecting input method behavior (i.e., typing, etc.)
- Android - Built-in search no longer works, so (temporarily) disabled until an alternative can be found
3.0.630
3-Mar-2020
- Fixed a modification-on-disk warning from occurring during collaboration resync
- Collaboration chat dialog was getting resized unintentionally
- Adding some additional stabilization checks for collaboration
- Was possible for certain collaboration operations to be processed out of sync
- Sped up paste/drag operations for lots of/really big images
- Hitting Enter on a blank line for the element menu no longer applies to title pages
3.0.629
3-Mar-2020
- Android - Better key handling for recent Android versions
- Android - Additional logging to diagnose Google Sign-In issues
- iOS - Tweaks to document loading
- iOS - Improved handling of certain embedded characters
- iOS - Improvements to autosaving
3.0.628
19-Jan-2020
- Spellchecking fixes and improvements
- Shortcut key naming tweaks
- Linux - libpango dependency tweaks
- Android - Fixes a loading issue with the preferences page on tablet layouts
- Android - Fixed Dropbox account-logout behavior
3.0.627
14-Dec-2019
- Older version Scrivener documents could run into an import problem
- Learned words weren't always getting (re)loaded properly
- Underlining edge case was only poking its head up during File > Create PDF
- Mac - Tweaked some fullscreen mouse pointer behavior
- Mac - Couldn't set a custom color initially from synopsis dialog color picker
- Mac - Mac App Store version was missing the printing entitlement
- Mac - Mac App Store version was missing the audio entitlement (for dictation)
- Android - Fixed Device Storage access in Android 10
- iOS - Addressed an issue that could affect importing from some OneDrive folders
- iOS - Setting for viewing font size had somehow gone missing
3.0.625
10-Nov-2019
- Improved import of Unicode PDF and RTF
- First-line indentation wasn't always being propagated to derived element styles
- Fixed a condition where unnecessary OMITTED scenes could get added when locking
- Addresses an issue that could affect loading of some dictionaries
- Some minor UI tweaks
- Mac - Packaging redesigned for better Catalina notarization support
- Mac - Fixed Quick Reformat dialog buttons for Catalina
- Mac - Default selection color is no longer the system selection color
- Mobile - An illegal character could be entered into a filename in some circumstances
- Android - Fixed a problem with scene (and other) lists failing to load
- Android - Addresses a startup crash on some Android (tablet) devices
- iOS - Fixed a bug where the detail button ("...") could select the wrong file
- iOS - Better tracking of modified file state while editing
3.0.624
25-Sep-2019
- Omit Highlighting wasn't working properly for Create PDF
- Smarter autoselection for word lookup
- Potential improvements to collaboration stability
- Fixed an issue with header/footer placeholders
- Additional logging for global dictionary writing
- Mobile - Better updating for documents with embedded images
- Android - Addressed a potential editing crash
- iOS - Addressed an import/export encoding issue
- iOS - Fixed image importing
3.0.623
31-Aug-2019
- Typographical tweaks
- Improved autocomplete measuring for variable-width fonts
- Title page Contact bookmark wasn't being handled properly
- Next/Previous Revision was sometimes stopping on a non-showing revision
- Fixed a potential startup issue if for registered users downloading the free version
- Fountain title page metadata unrecognized key/value pairs are silently digested
- Better autosave scheduling
- Attempted to clarify (re)numbering of scenes, etc.
- Mac - Improvements to handling of window mode changes
- Mac - Better handling of dark mode switching
- Mobile - Importing from nested OneDrive folders wasn't working properly
- iOS - Improvements to export logging
- iOS - Exporting improvements
- iOS - Fixes title page importing
3.0.622
13-Jul-2019
- Added some edge cases to Find Errors
- Autocomplete UI improvements
- Added page breaks to Avid Script-Based Editing export
- Ruler UI tweaks
- Mac - Fixed an issue with non-native fullscreen
3.0.618
24-May-2019
- Minor stability and UI improvements
- Addresses a sporadic (Mac-only?) initialization condition with opening recent files
- Improvements to certain Fountain-importing edge cases
- Fixing a Mac navigator fix in 617 that broke the Windows navigator
- iOS - Working on exporter stability
- Mobile - Better tracking of file modifications
3.0.616
1-May-2019
- Some long-overdue improvements to Format panel mouse selection
- Better handling of substituted fonts (and resetting font substitution)
- Improvements to element setup in the Graphic Novel template
- Word count for newly added index card scene headings
- Added page number to longest/shortest scenes in Statistics Report for better reference
- More thorough font specification for report HTML output
- Option to omit highlighting from printing/PDF
- Fixed a minor issue with document name display in the Open Recent submenu
- Addressed a rare, sneaky, deceitful little bug related to document-opening
- Windows - Fixed a race condition related to the above briefly in the 614 update
- Mac - The text drag-and-drop caret, absent since the move to 64-bit-only, is back
- iOS - Import/export fixes
3.0.613
29-Mar-2019
- iOS - Rewritten cloud/sync layer
- iOS - Additional import/export improvements
3.0.611
6-Mar-2019
- Minor UI consistency improvements
- Other minor tweaks and fixes
- Improved visibility for collaborative editing messages
- Assignable shortcut for File > Open Recent > Most Recent
- Mac - Better visibility of autocomplete popup in dark mode
- Mac - Scrollbar fixed to mitigate glitching due to a Mojave dark mode bug
- Mac - Index card shortcuts for appending/inserting weren't working right
- Mobile - Improvements to stability/function for basic (free) version(s)
- Mobile - Better handling of services login and simultaneous navigation
- Mobile - Resolved some service login issues with the free/basic version of the app
- iOS - New iOS version was missing some Parenthetical elements on export
3.0.610
20-Feb-2019
- Fixes a File menu regression
3.0.609
18-Feb-2019
- Optimization of full-screen minimal rendering
- Improvements to installing/removing third-party dictionaries
- Better fallback for failing to load a third-party dictionary
- Fixes to vertical scrollbar sizing
- Mac - Fixes to focus with Cut/Copy/Paste in text fields
- Mobile - Better handling of concurrent operations
- iOS - Initial release of the redesigned iOS app
3.0.608
27-Jan-2019
- Improvements to index card printing
- Fixed a regression with synopsis colors in the right-click context menu
3.0.607
24-Jan-2019
- Windows/Linux - Fixed option to allow multiple application windows
3.0.606
21-Jan-2019
- PDF import CMAP fixes (i.e., font/character set mapping)
- Custom shortcuts for dynamic menu labels weren't working properly
- Windows/Mac - Fixed sizing of displayed report text
- Windows/Linux - Added an option under User Interface preferences to allow multiple windows
- Mobile - improved syncing of newly created documents
- Android - More detailed time/date display
3.0.605
20-Dec-2018
- Fixed a minor issue with Find/Replacing smart quotes
- Modified image caching where previously cached images could be removed by the system
- Bookmarks should work somewhat better with generated PDFs
- Mac - some appearance cleanup during document-opening
- Linux - Fixed a (newly occurring) ICC profile warning for the Page Layout dialog
- Linux - Attempting to minimize some page flicker/blanking in some situations
- Android - Improved notification of Newer/Older/Synced status
- iOS - Initial beta version for the totally rewritten app
3.0.604
26-Nov-2018
- Fixed a non-scrolling issue in continuous view mode
- Mac - Fixed an issue with freezing when splitting/joining document tabs
- Mac/Linux - Enabled the option for using non-system selection color
- Windows - proper single-instance handling
3.0.603
21-Nov-2018
- View > Custom Page Colors as a preference toggle (for those wanting an easy "night mode")
- Layout improvements when printing index cards
- Windows - Attempting to address creation of zero-length PDF files
- Mac - Nonbreaking space and nonbreaking hyphen shortcuts weren't always working
- Mac - Bold text on older versions of OS X wasn't working right in some cases
- Mac - Fixed an issue with freezing when splitting/joining document tabs
- Linux - Nested modal dialogs were sometimes getting frozen
3.0.602
10-Nov-2018
- Android - Interface improvements
- Android - Better selection management for centering when editing by element
- Mac - Some italic/bold fonts were being rendered incorrectly
3.0.601
2-Nov-2018
- Some edge-case layout fixes
- Android - More consistent tablet layout
- Mac - Rendering fixes for older versions of OS X
- Windows - Shortcut key for non-breaking space wasn't working for one update
3.0.600
21-Oct-2018
- Minor focus-related improvements
- Lingering Navigator drag-and-drop issue
- Mac - input method behavior (including dictation)
- Mac - tab-switching focus fixes
3.0.599
15-Oct-2018
- Mac - addressing some Mojave dark mode issues
- Mac - keyboard input in some cases/methods was still problematic after 596
- Mac - fixing light theme panel backgrounds
3.0.598
9-Oct-2018
- Mac - Improvements to Window menu behavior
- Mac - Improved dark mode support
3.0.596
7-Oct-2018
- Collaboration editing tooltips now don't obscure the text being edited
- Added a search function to the keyboard shortcut editor
- Some cosmetic fixes for Retina/HiPI displays
- Mac - fixed a keyboard input issue
3.0.594
26-Sep-2018
- Removed interfering Alt+NumPad default shortcuts on Windows (see 591)
- Addressed a TTF font-parsing issue with the built-in PDF generator
- Fixed a minor rendering glitch when highlighting
- Better (more legible) handling of highlighting, etc. with custom text/page colors
- Improved spell-checking suggestion filtering
- Improved import of Movie Magic Screenwriter's imaginatively formulated RTF
- Shortcut key search to find shortcut keys by keystroke
- Mac - The new version wasn't dragging and dropping notes properly
- Mac - Some key navigation had been temporarily not working
- Mac - Fixed some window modality shenanigans
- Mac - Improved fade effect for custom full-screen
- Android - Better conflict resolution when trying to edit a modified document
- Android - Improved capitalization detection in element-by-element editing
- Android - Folder structure wasn't being properly retained on export
- Android - Better main menu behavior (on some devices)
- Android - Improved Material layout
- Android - Better smart (typographical) quotes handling
3.0.592
19-Jul-2018
- Better default settings for Format > Element Styles > Create Element Style
- Updating of help documentation
- Some resource files (like dictionaries) weren't installable after 590
- Windows - Alt+NumPad character shortcuts weren't working properly
- Android - improvements to new document template
- Android - better autosaving
3.0.590
15-Jul-2018
- Mac - .fadein.template files were sometimes not selectable
- Android - New document button wasn't appearing in some tablet layouts
- Android - Better flagging of modification conflicts in some cases
- Android - Couldn't insert from Character/Location lists
3.0.589
7-Jul-2018
- The official release of the all-new Android app
- Dual dialogue wasn't working for non-Character (but Character-derived) element styles
- International keyboard fix in 588 was affecting Windows Alt+key menu accelerators
- Improvements to report HTML output
- Added total counts to some reports
- Better import of default FD revision colors
3.0.588
4-Jul-2018
- Fixed synopsis window resizing
- Proper selection of default Tab/Enter styles in Modify/Create Element Style dialog
- Custom zoom levels weren't getting saved as a preference
- International Mac keyboards were having trouble with certain characters
- Improved FDX importing of locked/revised pages
3.0.585
25-Jun-2018
- Fixed a startup crash with the Mac App Store version
- Restored speed of Create PDF output
3.0.584
15-Jun-2018
- Some repairs to collaboration stability
- Fixed a regression where autocomplete wasn't always working
- Better listing of characters in Scene Report CSV output
- Changes to make File > Create PDF output process closer to File > Print
- New 64-bit-only Mac build
3.0.583
14-May-2018
- Filenames were getting mangled for some save/export dialogs
- Brief popup of document name when switching tabs in minimal fullscreen
- Improved image caching for open documents
- Better handling of Fountain notes
- Linux packages updated to use libpng-1.6
- Final Mac 32-bit compatible update (for older model Macs)
- Some other light housekeeping
3.0.581
10-Apr-2018
- Print Preview wasn't working properly
3.0.579
8-Apr-2018
- Documents were sometimes being marked as needing saving when they didn't need to be
- Per-document default open/save directories
- Fixed some Create PDF vertical alignment of static markup
- Repaired the layout of one of the preference tabs in the Mac App Store version
- Splashscreen was getting unintentionally hidden
- Improvements to collaboration stability.
3.0.578
10-Mar-2018
- Fixed some fullscreen minimal fade overlay behavior
- Fixed an issue with PDF generation using certain fonts
- Fixed a layout problem that could occur with CJK languages
- Addressed some questionable FD parsing of their own file format
- Collaboration stability improvements
- Knocked an awful lot off the internal to-do list
- Minor interface tweaks
3.0.576
12-Dec-2017
- Added error detection of illegal/invisible characters (from pasting; although recent improvements better guard against)
- Fixed a possible Recover Backup crash
- Fixed some visual line creep that could happen with mixed font sizes under certain circumstances
- Addressed a cast report regression from 575
- There was an issue when closing a document with the dialogue tuner open
- Updated Scrivener import to work with the new Scrivener 3 file format (as well as old Scrivener files, still)
3.0.575
12-Nov-2017
- Fix for broken Celtx PDF import
- Create PDF with element highlighting could highlight an incorrect Dialogue element
- Guarding against UTF-8 BOM (byte-order marker) slipping by when pasting from an external source
- Windows - fixed a regression causing navigator flicker
- Mobile beta - improvements to Google Drive and Dropbox authentication
3.0.573
9-Oct-2017
- Fixed a keyboard navigation issue that could occur in revision mode
- Fixed a regression where keyboard shortcuts could get ignored
- Custom styles weren't being listed in the right sequence in the Format panel
3.0.572
29-Sep-2017
- Fixed a spurious clipboard error message in 571 (on Windows)
- Fixed a small clipboard memory leak at the same time
3.0.571
28-Sep-2017
- Addressed an issue with OMITTED/scene numbering
- Fixed a column layout regression from 565
- Scene numbers in Avid Script-Based Editing export weren't getting the proper layout
- Rewritten clipboard handling
- Improvements to keypress handling
- Fixed a potential crash in Swedish spellchecking
- Added .cxscript import
- Switching to/from title page no longer marks file as modified
- Current build wasn't working properly on Windows XP
3.0.570
9-Aug-2017
- Fixed a condition where revisions might not be shown as expected when not showing all revisions
- Improvements to Change Revisions To
- Deleting a revision color from a set now warns on existing revisions of that color
- Addresses an issue with exporting certain tags to .epub
3.0.567
22-Jul-2017
- Fixes a smartquotes-typing regression in 566
3.0.566
20-Jul-2017
- Omitted scenes could incorrectly count for a little bit of page length
- Collaboration server improvements
- Fixed where a synopsis icon could be drawn incorrectly when creating a synopsis is added
- Addressed some (English language only) apostrophe-autocapitalization behavior
- Addressed a navigator-repositioning regression from 565
- Increased number of autosave backups
- More flexible dialogue number formatting for feature animation
- Scrollbar/script viewer redraw switching back from index card view
- Fixed an issue with Navigator drag-and-drop at the end of document
- Trying to address a potential issue with opening autosave backup files
- Numbering multiple continued pages is now a separate option
- Addressed a couple of image-rendering idiosyncracies
- Font dialog better matches scale of viewer
- Mobile - fixed an issue with modified date(s)
3.0.565
30-Apr-2017
- Changed format panel element selection to single-click
- Tweaked some line-breaking in particular punctuation circumstances
- Fixed an issue with PDF title page printing
- More updog
- Mac - Wasn't always updating Navigator page number when jumping to a page
3.0.564
16-Apr-2017
- Better rendering of element highlighting (improved opacity, fixed overlapping)
- Some element highlighting rules weren't getting saved properly
- Fixed a typing slowdown that could happen in rare circumstances
- Improvements to navigator folder drag-and-drop
- Mac - updated some base library functionality
- Mac - fixed a repaint regression from 563
- Windows - addressed an issue with not running properly on Windows XP
3.0.563
1-Apr-2017
- Element-specific highlighting for printing/PDF
- Layout optimizations
- Properly fixed a rare linebreak issue was previously improperly fixed
- Addressed an FDX export regression from 562
- Dialog layout refactoring for great justice
- Generating a Dialogue report could miss (incorrectly) formatted lines
- Changing the font of a selection now uses the selection text as a preview
- Custom element shortcut keys weren't always being retained when switching documents
- Fine-tuned some selection drawing
- Improved RTF export for non-screenplay formatting, such as novel manuscripts
- Placeholder for missing images
- Enhancements to document comparison
- Better handling of empty items during Scrivener import
- Internal re-architecting re: subdocuments (such as the title page)
- Minor improvements and fixes
- Windows - fixed a potential issue with docking/resizing
3.0.562
11-Mar-2017
- Index card text color wasn't always autoselected to be the most visible
- Find next/previous revision was finding any revision, even when other revisions were hidden
- Better scaling for Linux HiDPI displays
- Better synopsis color editing
- Improved FDX formatting for import to breakdown tools
- Some documentation cleanup
3.0.561
20-Feb-2017
- Additional smoothing of a couple of post-v3 edges
- Title page images weren't being reliably saved
- Fixed a regression from 559 related to lines ending in mixed formatting (my fault)
- Can now specify font/style for PDF watermarking
- Finally replicated and tracked down some mythical quirkiness with find-and-replace repainting
- Fixed an issue with revision page color not being shown properly when soloing a revision
- Added a maximum limit to the displayed length of an autocompletion entry
3.0.560
11-Feb-2017
- Create PDF wasn't properly embedding multiple images
- Collaboration session management improvements
- Fixed positioning of Scene Heading editing for smaller-scaled index cards
- .epub export formatting improvements (thanks to Roland Stroud)
3.0.559
06-Feb-2017
This is the initial release of Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software version 3, featuring:
- Support for image embedding
- Real-time multiuser collaboration
- Website redesign
- Incorporation of many smaller pre-version 3 fixes and minor features
- A free update for existing owners
2.0.556
9-Jan-2017
- A fixier fix for a previous fix
- Preparations for the next version
2.0.554
4-Jan-2017
- Fixed a potential issue with dual dialogue when including a non-character/dialogue element
- Improved .epub export
- Formatted text export fixes/improvements
- Addressed an issue with initial loading of custom keyboard shortcuts on macOS
- Fixed a layout inconsistency with some double-spacing (novel manuscript template, etc.)
- Windows - underlining on HiDPI displays could be mis-scaled
2.0.552
21-Dec-2016
- Fixes an arrow key regression issue from 2.0.551
2.0.551
11-Dec-2016
- Avid Script-Based Editing export
- Fixed an issue with FDX export where scene numbers start at > 1 to avoid unnecessary OMITTED scenes
- Rescinded {PageRevAll} formatting for header footer
- Replaced it with {PageRevColors} which ONLY includes color name for revised pages
- Optimized spell checking thread
- User-set session timer now reports total words and net new pages during the timer
- Fixed an issue with new toolbar layout having dark borders under light theme(s)
- More flexibility in scaling for DPI settings on Windows
- Better automatic adjustment of selection color to avoid matching background color
- Proper exporting of page breaks to RTF
- Cleaned up handling of undo/redo when deleting by word
- Better handling of underlined spaces mixed with revision marks
- No longer (re)sets the paper/page size when (re)applying a template
2.0.550
8-Nov-2016
- Fix scene data generation for reports for documents with no scenes
- Some older Final Draft .fdr files weren't being recognized for import
- Printing/PDF layout improvements
- Better setting of header/footer font when changing document font, where possible
- Proper first-line indentation for element styles
- Novel manuscript template
- Fixed up some linehandling where double-spaced/pre-spaced empty elements are involved
- Better handling of customized element names for Format menu
- Fixed a mixup with the Show/Hide Bookmarks menu item
- Fixed an issue with being unable to delete cache folder on Windows
- Custom highlight color now an option in right-click context menu
- Fixed retaining the previous custom highlight color when choosing
- Now explicitly warns when shutting off automatic backups
- Streamlined some unnecessary formatting when typing paragraphs
- Fixed possible incorrect linespacing alignment when using mixed font sizes
- Improved baseline alignment for Create PDF output
- {PageRev} header/footer formatting excludes white pages (use {PageRevAll} to include them)
- Improvements to page locking and layout overflow
- Better setting of current selection font for Format Font
- Exporting even unlocked scene numbers to FDX to accommodate Final Draft's coarser-grained numbering method
- Tweaked Fountain export of all-caps action lines
- Better (immediate) page recounting after omitting/unomitting a scene or switching scene versions
- Better handling of paragraph-ending soft returns
- Finessed some arrow-key combo navigation
- Scrivener export (as RTF for Import & Split)
- Better Scrivener import of multiple Scrivener project documents at once
- Rewrote toolbar layout and reflow code
- Major code and project restructuring
- Hiding notes and/or synopsis icons excludes them from export to formats that support them
- Fixed an issue with element spacing not being restored properly
- Wasn't properly finding elements for Dialogue/Cast reports before a Scene Heading
- Some major code and project restructuring
- Windows - Better rendering of markup on high-resolution (HiDPI) displays
2.0.547
31-Aug-2016
- Make sure custom colors are being loaded/saved properly for the font dialog
- Custom highlighting colors
- Resizable synopsis window
- Greater customization of header/footer (font)
- Disabled zoom to fit for side-by-side view mode, since it doesn't really make sense
- Custom page color no longer overrides index card color if that view option is selected
- Improved mousewheel behavior for a couple of custom controls
- Improved handling of redraw edge cases in continuous view mode
- Read-only viewer enhancements
- Corrected an issue with ampersands in book-format .epub exports
- More sensible page view border size
- FDX import/export now properly supports A4 paper size
- Mac - fix for multiple character revision marks in revision sets dialog
2.0.546
31-Jul-2016
- Fixed Adobe Story import of non-contiguous scene numbers
- Autocapitalize "i" to "I" for English-language screenplays where appropriate
- Caught an issue with inserting scenes with complex scene numbering
- Customizable revision marks
- Mac - Addressed some animated message window behavior
2.0.545
29-Jun-2016
- Full screen minimal close button wasn't getting its color changed when using a shortcut key to toggle custom page colors
- Disabled some inapplicable View menu items in full screen minimal
- Updated included English language dictionaries (en_CA, en_GB, en_US)
- Fixed incorrect "page" color for revised pages when showing revised page colors in continuous view mode
- Adobe Story import now retains scene numbers, if any
- Removed no-spaces restriction on bookmark names
- Added quicker access right-click creation of scene versions, alts, synopsis, notes, bookmarks, and links
- Multi-line Character elements were throwing off dialogue numbering
- Clarification in Help that Scrivener import looks for Script documents in the project
2.0.544
25-May-2016
- Improved recent layout optimization to deal with hard-to-break lines (like really, really large font sizes, etc.)
- Another tweak for refocusing during/after animated messages in full screen minimal
- Trying to guard against people inadvertently installing the demo version over the full version
- Added more Change Revisions To functionality
- Added an option to use a custom lookup tool to Online Tools
- Started to add some more Preference toggles, for optional customizable shortcuts
- Improvements to shortcut key editing conflict-finding
- Some optimizations to typing in continuous view mode for cleaner redrawing
2.0.543
17-May-2016
- Colored index cards, based on synopsis color
- Additional Final Draft import/export improvements
- Formatting improvements, of particular interest to those working in Chinese (and similar languages)
- Enhancements to More and Continued functionality
- Improved alignment of some static elements in Create PDF output
- Updated downloadable stage play and miscellaneous script templates
- Now possible to generate a profanity report (English) even if the language isn't English
- Addressed a situation where typing could be paused while saving
- Further refinements to dual-dialogue optimizations from 2.0.541
- Updated the Script (AV two-column) template
- Fixed a crash that could occur when quickly opening and selecting text and closing documents
- Mac - Took a look at how retaining save/open directories for Dropbox, etc. were being managed
- Mac - Optimized index card scrolling
- Windows - Better support for certain international keyboard configurations
- Windows - Templates could potentially be saved with a duplicate extension
2.0.542
28-Apr-2016
- Fixed a regression with the 2.0.541 update
2.0.541
27-Apr-2016
- Element style space-before fractional values were not being saved/restored properly for some locales
- Break-on-sentences is now even slightly smarter
- Better page break behavior for column-based formats such as some of the stage play templates
- Cleaned up some logic in bookmark naming rules
- Fixed an issue with setting the default language for new documents to an installed dictionary
- Improved dual dialogue handling for stage play formats
- Addressed a regression with Final Draft importing title pages (and other formatting)
- Fixed a Fountain export case involving Scene Heading elements with locations beginning with "INT" alone, without "INT."
- RTF export now exports title page
- Mac - Tracked down a redraw issue that was affecting typing over a page break at low zoom levels
- Windows - Warns on use of plain "Courier" font (i.e., the non-TrueType COURIER.FON)
- Windows - Guarding against some unintended drag-and-drop behavior in index card view
- Linux - Now generating RPMs manually instead of using alien to convert packages (due to Red Hat installation conflicts)
2.0.540
20-Mar-2016
- Improved error handling when reverting to previously saved version of document
- Fixed a PDF import issue
- Changed the modified-file tab indicator from an asterisk at the end of the name to a bullet at the start
- Added a "Saved" indication when in full screen minimal when manually saving to let you know it did, in fact, save
- FDX import/export now better handles adjusted individual line lengths
- Fixed a repainting issue in continuous view mode at small zoom levels
- Fixed an issue related to dragging empty index cards/navigator items
- Prevent cross-element word-by-word deletion
- Added some presets to custom page colors
- When right-clicking for a context menu outside of a selection, clear the selection in order to properly set the insertion point
- Additional context menu formatting options when there's a valid selection
- Improved the undo behavior of formatting applied to a selection in certain edge cases
- Final Draft import/export supports more formatting
- Mac - Addressed a redraw issue that was occurring with keep-typing-centered turned on for certain view modes/reduced zoom levels
- Windows - Found out where temp files were sometimes getting left behind when trying to save over write-protected files
- Windows - Fixed a library regression leading to unwanted user interface borders
2.0.539
21-Feb-2016
- Fixed a regression from 2.0.538 in scene length/eighths calculation
- Fixed a miscalculation related to non-normal element spacing
2.0.538
18-Feb-2016
- Fixed a crash that could happen under certain conditions when doing Select All with locked pages
- Addressed an issue that could cause pasted locked pages to be misnumbered
- Words and lineage report (for animation production)
- Corrected a miscalculation of scene duration/eighths that could occur
- Added a preference to select the default language for new documents
- Math!
- Additional minor fixes, optimizations, and improvements
2.0.537
17-Jan-2016
- Reopening all previously open tabs will also switch to the last active tab instead of always the farthest right one
- Improvements to matching formatting of dialogue MORE/(cont'd)
- A couple of minor printing fixes
- New customizable element report
- OS X - Addressed a full screen minimal issue that some Mac users were seeing on El Capitan
- OS X - Scrollbars should keep up with find, etc.
- OS X - Added an option to use Final Draft's, ah, unique Mac navigation shortcut keys
2.0.536
29-Dec-2015
- Hitting Enter on a blank line now brings up an Apply Element choice (by default)
- Improvements to Navigator folders in index card view for Act elements
- Fixed a possible drag-and-drop issue when showing Navigator folders in index card view
- Fixed some deprecated Fountain import behaviour that was still hanging around
- Fixed the consistency of how highlighting is rendered when undoing on a blank paragraph
- Addressed a potential sporadic startup issue on Windows
2.0.535
16-Nov-2015
- Fixed a possibility of malformed formatting being generated when importing from RTF
- Additional safeguards for catching illegal pasted/imported characters
- Increased maximum font size to 200 pt.
- Fixed an issue with Join/Append on Mac
- Fixed an issue where font settings from the Font dialog weren't always sticking
- Addressed a regression with undoing insertion of an A page into a locked script
- Fixed an issue where under certain conditions a revision mark for a new paragraph wouldn't go away when undoing
- Fixed an issue with being able to delete a revision mark for a colored page at the end of a line
- Improved undoing page numbering of A/B pages
- Added the capability to adjust (unlock) a single locked page
2.0.534
4-Nov-2015
- Additional layout cleanup for Windows on high-DPI displays
- Go To Scene from index cards wasn't always going to scene
- Fixed a little thing with the starting position of index cards when showing navigator folder structure
- Fixed a minor issue with alts and undo/redo
- Option to print invisible watermarks only when generating watermarked PDF(s)
- Find Errors will now catch the same Character element accidentally speaking twice in a row
2.0.533
7-Oct-2015
- Minor rendering fixes for continuous view
- Document comparison can now include addition changes only for reviewing
- Fixed an issue the could break-on-sentences behavior particularly with text pasted from other sources
- Fixed an issue where scene numbering could temporarily disappear for a given scene in the navigator
- File creation time could get overwritten when resaving
- Greatly improved appearance and layout on high-DPI Windows displays
- Improved cross-platform font selection dialog
- Improvements to dialogue reports, including dialogue numbering
- Deselect title page when printing/PDFing a page/scene selection or character sides
2.0.531
5-Sep-2015
- Making sure new scene number formatting is actually working properly in all cases
- Tweaked the navigator's new drag-and-drop behavior for better responsiveness
2.0.530
2-Sep-2015
- Navigator is now fully drag-and-drop for folders and nesting
- Fixes/improvements to profanity report generation
- Additional options for scene number formatting
- Additional options for page numbering
- Index card representation of navigator folders (and acts)
- Per-document index card settings
- Per-document navigator settings
- Create PDF improvements
- Minor stability improvements
2.0.528
2-Aug-2015
- Improvements to saving/loading of shortcut keysettings
- Improvements to tab splitting/joining behavior
- Create PDF wasn't truncated a trailing space on underlining breaking across a line
- Fixed an issue with Create PDF in continuous view mode
- Fixed an issue with ruler not showing right away in always-show-ruler mode
- Improved help description for specifying pages/ranges when printing
2.0.527
20-Jul-2015
- Improvements to shortcut key customization; it's recommended to Reset All shortcut keys under Preferences > User Interface and delete any existing saved .keysettings
- Some custom shortcut keys weren't being saved properly
- New View menu functions to split/join tabs
- Option to reopen all tabs instead of just the last-open document (at startup)
- It was possible for some stray revision marks to not be removed by Unmark Revision
- Joining documents would not always work properly when one or more of the documents was already open
- Scene version default label (timestamp) now includes time as well
- CSV report output formatting improvements
- Address a floating-point parsing issue for certain preferences
- A minor improvement to positioning the synopsis-editing dialog in index card view
- Lots of UI updating that no one will notice but me
2.0.526
22-Jun-2015
- Selecting pages to print by revision set/color wasn't making all revision colors available when custom revision colors exist
2.0.525
20-Jun-2015
- Fixed a regression where typing breaking to a new line could temporarily shift a pixel vertically
- Custom element styles now have keyboard shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts are now fully customizable
- Fixed FDX export not having proper paragraph spacing (after element spacing adjustment was introduced)
- Fixed a repaint issue that could affect repainting only part of a page
2.0.523
10-Jun-2015
- FDX import was incorrectly adding 0.5 lines before element styles after addition of element spacing in 2.0.522
- Additional FDX improvements to importing "CHARACTER (CONT'D)", etc.
2.0.522
8-Jun-2015
- Fix for autocomplete ordering
- Improved save/restore of custom colors from color dialogs
- Addressed autosave where filenames differ only in case
- Copying from the Scene Versions > View wasn't always working
- Additional options for fractional line spacing before an element
- Dialogue number locking
- Adjustable watermark lightness
- Windows - Fixed index cards append/insert shortcut keys
- Windows - Updated to work with latest Dropbox installs
2.0.521
2-May-2015
- Fixed an issue where overwriting could occur while typing
- Windows and Linux - Fixed a 2.0.519 regression that could cause page numbers and CONTINUEDs to appear out of place when viewing in page view
- Windows - Tab key wasn't always properly autocompleting
2.0.520
26-Apr-2015
- Numbered scene "CONTINUED:" text could appear misnumbered when paging through
- Changing revision level now prompts to optionally relock locked pages
- After locking, "Lock Scenes/Pages" become "Relock/Unlock Scenes/Pages"
- Final Draft import/export improvements
- Fountain import was not properly importing title page metadata
- Fixes to repainting of static layout elements (like automatic "(cont'd)", etc.)
- Force full repaint when dismissing autocomplete
- Link dialog disables bookmark option if no bookmarks are available
- Spellchecking wasn't always resetting after doing/undoing Change Character Name
- Fixed a minor continuous view layout issue
- Windows - Reduced frequency of menu updating
- OS X - Print > Save as PDF now uses the document name instead of a placeholder
2.0.519
15-Apr-2015
- Final Draft import/export of all revision marks including deletions
- Final Draft import/export of revision colors
- Final Draft import/export of locked pages
- Fixed a couple of automatic scene numbering issues
- Page Up was sometimes not working properly for "A" pages with lots of whitespace
- Fixed a possible crash switching to title page immediately after importing FDX
- Optimized redrawing when typing multiple paragraphs of unformatted text
- Switched shortcut keys for index card append and insert
- Added Title Page Bookmarks to the context menu when on the title page
- OS X - Addressed occasional typing blackout on Yosemite
2.0.517
24-Mar-2015
- Omitted/scene versions and alts could be lost when copy/pasting or dragging in the Navigator
- Fixed clicking of alt buttons in continuous view
- Cleaner line-by-line scrolling when "Keep typing centered" is selected
- Improved global dictionary handling
2.0.516
16-Mar-2015
- OS X - Fixes a redraw issue
- Better copy-and-paste between Navigator and document/elsewhere
- Apply Template was overriding some settings, etc. that it shouldn't have been overriding
2.0.515
12-Mar-2015
- Alternatives (alts) for any element
- Scene version icon wasn't being properly removed after all scene versions were deleted
- Scene versions and omitted scenes now properly apply the current revision level
- Pasting of formatted text interspersed with whitespace could lose the whitespace
- Fixed an issue where the insertion point could become hidden when navigating by keyboard after a cut/paste
- Fixed an issue where autosave wouldn't properly save when similarly named files exist
- Custom colors weren't always being used when mixed with revision page colors
- Tweaked mouse positioning in side-by-side view
2.0.514
1-Mar-2015
- New Production menu, the new home of locking, revisions, and reports, plus Omit Scene, Scene Versions
- Now supports full import of OMITTED scenes from Final Draft
- Header and footer formatting now in Document > Header and Footer
- Revisions are no longer applied to or rendered on the title page
- Using {Pages} header/footer placeholder could report the wrong number of total pages sometimes
- Fixed illegal characters sneaking in via Fountain import
- Now remembers path for PDF/other import/export, separately from remembered .fadein path
- Fixed some confusion that could happen when applying a template with different start-at scene numbering
- Minor tweak to next-character prediction to avoid unnecessary suggestions
(Note that you'll need Fade In Mobile 2.0.514 if you have omitted scenes or scene versions in order for them to be round-tripped to/from your device.)
2.0.510
9-Feb-2015
- Dealt with some scene numbering issues re: omitted scenes as well as a custom start-at number
- Fixed an issue with ICC Profile warnings when loading images in the Help Viewer
- Fixed a regression that could cause a crash when applying a template
- Find and Replace wasn't always working properly for find-only (another regression)
- Unchecking Document > More and Continued > Insert placeholders for omitted scenes wasn't sticking
- Improvements to Copy as Fountain with sections and synopses
2.0.509
3-Feb-2015
- Can now specify scene sides for printing/PDF
- Can specify more complex page ranges for printing/PDF as well
- Additional checking for pasting bad data from other sources
2.0.508
28-Jan-2015
- Fixes an issue with FDX import that should've been addressed in the previous update
2.0.507
27-Jan-2015
- Fixed optimized repainting of navigator and index cards, which wasn't actually repainting for everybody all the time
- Rebuilding/resetting lists in the roster now has a warning/confirmation
- Under certain conditions, Change Character Name could duplicate a name in the Characters roster
2.0.506
24-Jan-2015
- Continued refinement of v2's handling of title pages
- Pasting over a whole title page was causing issues
- Fixed a regression when a Fountain import begins with forced line formatting
- Due to sandboxing, the Mac App Store version cannot add an extension (.csv, .html, .txt) when saving a report
- Improvements to epub output
- Improvements to repainting/refreshing
- Improvements to autocomplete popup behaviour
- Help viewer was capable of resizing to an off-screen size
- Made index card mouse/keyboard operations a little more straightforward
- Further optimized repainting of navigator and index cards
- Find Next/Previous Adjusted Line shortcuts were conflicting with others
2.0.503
14-Jan-2015
- Properly fixes a potential layout issue/crash (on multiple monitor setups, and others)
- Fixes a regression from the v2 upgrade with successive OMITTED scene markers overwriting previous ones
- Fixes a repaint issue with potential doubling of text
- Tweaked Fountain import of soft returns combined with explicit line formatting
- Custom page/text color selection wasn't properly updating swatches
- Added a forced black-and-white option to Print/PDF
- Some v1.2 revisions were not being properly imported
- Updated the Screenplay (Warner) template
- Mac - Fixed an issue with certain menu items possibly not updating
- Mac - Guarding against the possibility of modal dialogs becoming hidden
2.0.501
4-Jan-2015
- Addresses a layout issue some people were experiencing after upgrading to v2; may require user interface preferences to be reselected
- Fixes to scene and dialogue numbering sometimes going awry
- Better interpretation of Final Draft multiple line spacing
- Fountain import improvements
- Fixed automatic correction of DOuble CApitals
- Should address a condition under which title pages may not be saving/printing
- Cleaned up title page functions to a single Document > Title Page submenu
- Page Up/Down in side-by-side view should now be scrolling by the proper amount
- OS X - Fixed Home/End key behavior
- Windows - Epub export was misencoding some entities
- Windows - Fixed image loading for high-DPI displays
2.0.500
19-Dec-2014
Here are some of the key features of this initial version 2 release:
- Free update
Version 2 is a free update for existing Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software users.
- Improved architecture
Version 2 has been entirely re-architected internally to be better, stronger, faster, more stable and more expandable.
- Application Appearance
Features a new default flat theme in both light and dark. The interface is also better optimized for large/high-density displays.
- New Views
A new continuous scrolling, non-page view, as well as another multi-page horizontal mode.
- Printing and PDF
Print or create a PDF with colored revision text (and also create viewing-only PDFs with revision page colors). Smarter printing/PDFing of revisions and sides. In-application Print Preview for OS X.
- Dialogue Tuner
Use the new Dialogue Tuner to isolate and fine-tune a single character's dialogue in one place.
- Tab and Enter
More control over Tab and Enter behavior.
- Find/Replace/Change
More powerful Find and Replace, and enhancements to Change Character Name.
- Cheating Tweaking
Tweak line lengths, automatically, for a section or element type or the whole document to easily and invisibly shave pages over a whole script.
- Multiple Authors/Editors
The current author or editor is now noted for each change.
- Bookmarks and Links
Create bookmarks and links to navigate within a script, or to link to external resources/media.
- Title Pages
Title pages are now fully editable and customizable.
- Reports
Improved reports, including an enlightening new statistics report.
- Help Improvements
Enhancements to and expansion of in-application help/documentation.
- Fade In Mobile
Fade In Mobile already works with version 2 .fadein files on iPhone, iPad and Android. Fade In Mobile Free now allows read-only import.
And as usual that's just the start. There's going to be plenty more in future free updates to v2.
1.2.491
11-Dec-2014
- Final (hopefully) preparation for the update to v2
1.2.489
4-Dec-2014
- Improved file saving behavior
- Fixed a mistranslated 'o' accent
- Closing in on v2!
1.2.487
24-Nov-2014
- Updated English language dictionaries
- More accurately specified encoding of help files
- Reduced unnecessary repainting during typing
- Fixed unfixed fix for Navigator drag-and-drop on Windows
- Allows modifying multiple element styles before dismissing selection dialog
- Fixed an issue when printing a page range with A-pages wasn't getting the right pages
1.2.486
3-Nov-2014
- Fixed handling of >1.0 line spacing for dual dialogue
- Better maximized/non-maximized/fullscreen toggling
- Tweaked behavior of Keep typing centered
- Fixed some Navigator and index cards drag-and-drop behavior
- Addressed a minor issue with moving to end-of-script not finding the last line properly
- Addressed a rare repaginating issue
- Fix for typing when deleting an empty revised line
- Fixed a possible crash on first-run full-version registration dialogue
- Mac - Fixed toolbar (re)showing issue
- Mac - Fixed file extension selection for report saving
- Windows - Fixed non-working Close shortcut key
- Linux - Fixed installer script error for .tar.gz packages
1.2.481
7-Aug-2014
- Fixes an issue with breaking on sentences and stray spaces
- Fixed importing of newlines from RTF/Scrivener
- Change Character Name was potentially hanging in some circumstances
- Added some missing OS X text editing navigation keys
- Fixed a focus-resetting issue when drag-and-dropping files onto the application
- Fixed an issue with exporting a combination of locked and unlocked scene numbers to Final Draft
- Addresses redundant setting of element style attributes (and sometimes incorrect clearing)
- Attempts to guard against some incorrect Navigator scrolling behavior
1.2.479
7-Jul-2014
- Dialogue numbering settings were not being consistently saved
- Fixes an issue with Change Character Name not picking up all occurrences
- Character list was not always getting updated when doing a name change
- Selection anchor was not always getting properly reset after a find or undo
- Break-on-sentences behavior when typing in front of the sentence on the new page
1.2.477
11-Jun-2014
- Fixed an FDX export issue with mixed-typing scene headings, etc.
- "OMITTED" wasn't (optionally) always being printed for omitted scenes
- Better handling of outline level for Fountain import
- Small improvement to the line-breaking algorithm
- Fixed a potential (non-)redraw glitch when typing
1.2.476
18-May-2014
- Fixed a kerning error for static markup
- Fixed a potential startup crash
1.2.474
15-May-2014
- Fixed a File > Print scaling issue
- Fixed up some File > Create PDF alignment
- Fixed .ttc font embedding for File > Create PDF
- Sticky notes were not properly returning focus to the editor after closing
- Improved focus-returning behavior of dialogs/message boxes in general
- Fixed a small issue with single letters being unintentionally marked as misspellings
- Some newlines were not being properly encoded in XML output
- Fixed caret positioning after a soft return in some situations
- Importing Adobe Story documents wasn't preserving soft returns
- Fade In specific data gets saved even when exporting to XML
- Windows - scrollbars are now hidden when disabled
1.2.473
12-Apr-2014
- Fixed a crash with File > Create PDF for some unhandled fonts
- Further PDF import improvements
- Tamed overzealous Transition interpretation for Fountain import
- Fixed an initialization error for some language/locale combinations
- Fixed a markup issue when correcting a standalone misspelling
- OS X - Fixed a paste/clipboard issue
- OS X - Addressed possible page miscounting when printing multiple copies
1.2.471
20-Mar-2014
- PDF import tweaks
- Imports PDFs from more sources
- Preliminary Fountain 1.1 support
- Fixes display scaling issue with File > Create PDF on OS X
- Linux version was losing focus when changing fullscreen minimal mode
- Slightly less wasted space in dual dialogue
- Navigator UI improvements
- More readable formatting for HTML notes and synopsis reports
- Pasting from Pages on OS X wasn't working properly
- Better Help viewer display/behavior
- Fixes a file open/save panel regression on OS X
- "New Folder" button disabled in Mac App Store build due to an apparent Mavericks bug
- File > Create PDF was sometimes losing formatting after the last update
- Fixes a potential crash when comparing imported documents
- Better handling of columns breaking over a page, as in BBC radio script format
- It was possible to create an uncloseably positioned note (other than by hitting Escape)
- Addresses layout issues seen for some configurations of right-to-left system locales under Windows
- Explicitly typed "(CONT'D)"s are maintained when importing Fountain
- Loose/tight line spacing was not affecting some non-standard fonts
- Addresses a propagation issue with the Find Next arrow button (a regression in 470)
- Fixes a regression on OS X <10.6
1.2.470
3-Mar-2014
- PDF screenplay import
- Improved anti-copying security for watermarked PDFs
- Fixed an issue with undoing typeover text
- Fixes a regression with autocapitalization after "m." as in "a.m." and "p.m."
- Changed terminology of Navigator "Outline Level" to "Folder Level"
- Scene data for reports wasn't being generated properly in the event of no scenes
- Synopsis text is no longer capitalized when shown first in the Navigator (instead of Scene Heading text)
- Finder tags weren't being properly maintained on OS X Mavericks
- Got rid of a couple gremlins in inline revision markup
- Reinstated warning icon for some message dialogs on OS X
- Spelling underlining could sometimes be mis-positioned
- Better overall behavior of spelling markup while typing
- Optional showing of shortcut keys for elements list in format panel
- CSV report output now shows duration in pages as, e.g., 1.125 (for 1 1/8 pages)
- More file panel functionality for OS X Mavericks
- Importers that don't otherwise import characters and locations now rebuild them automatically
- Fixes a Change Character Name hang
- Fixes some overzealous changing in Change Character Name
- Some Fountain page breaks were not being recognized
1.2.467
3-Feb-2014
- Now saving the full version and build of Fade In with a document for troubleshooting purposes
- Fixed some menu updating on OS X Mavericks
- Fixed some button state updating on OS X
- Find and Replace dialogue was incorrectly setting keyboard focus
- Better handling of autocompletion for multi-word character names
1.2.466
26-Jan-2014
- Improvements to template loading (and saving)
- Worked around nbsp entity error when opening some .epub exports in iBooks
- Refined INitial CAps correction logic
- Fixed an issue with autocapitalization typing over a selection
- Fixed a layout issue with auto-adding (cont'd) in certain circumstances
- Fixed a layout issue related to undoing a paste in revision mode
1.2.465
16-Jan-2014
- Fixes an issue with unnecessary checking for updates
- Fixes a possible incorrect break-on-sentences condition
- Drag-and-dropped .txt files can now be opened as Fountain
- Fixed a regression that affected dual dialogue for Final Draft import
- Fixed certain dictionaries not being loaded properly (such as Catalan)
- Revision color wasn't being applied to text with a non-black color
- Page up/down wasn't properly positioning when in keep-typing-centered mode
- Don't automatically add (cont'd) over pagebreaks when already manually added
1.2.464
16-Dec-2013
- Fixes a sneaky Change Character Name bug
- More finessing of revisions editing
- Removes overhanging end-of-line underline with underlined revisions
- Fixes an issue where sometimes autosave wouldn't save on schedule
1.2.461
6-Dec-2013
- Fixes a regression with hitting Tab after INT. LOCATION to get a scene time dropdown
- Addresses a formatting issue when deleting revisions over a page break
- Improved behavior of customizable scene time separator with location list and autocomplete
- Fixes a regression with parenthetical formatting
1.2.458
24-Nov-2013
- Fixes an issue with the about box
1.2.457
23-Nov-2013
- Another small revisions fix/improvement
- Some text controls were missing a right-click context menu
- Additional checking for navigator context menu
- RTF and text export were automatically continuing dialogue even when deselected
- Fixed a deletion-offset glitch when typing in revision mode
- Typing, e.g., 'isn't' was temporarily underlining a misspelling for 'isn'
- Fixed an issue with automatically added CHARACTER (cont'd) not updating
- More layout redrawing improvements
- Improved handling of (MORE)/(cont'd)
- Can now use Escape key to exit fullscreen minimal
- Can now use a negative measurement for for element style left/right indentation
- Fixed an issue with deletion undo/redo over mixed formatting
- Optionally autocorrects DOuble CAps (when word is not in the dictionary)
- Customizable scene time separator
- Fixed a Fountain import bug for all-caps lines
- Fixed a find-and-replace bug
1.2.456
2-Nov-2013
- Editing revisions (particularly deleting paragraph breaks) was leaving artifacts
- Revision asterisks were improperly being printed to PDF in color
- Everything about a document, including document settings, is now fully undoable/redoable
- Improved Celtx import (of stage play scripts)
1.2.454
26-Oct-2013
- Words in global user dictionary were sometimes being marked as misspelled
- Fixed show/hide toggle in new scene numbering dialog
- Fixed an issue with improper scene number sequencing for some languages/locales
- Fixed an issue with scene locking and (and lots of) omitted scenes
- Interface consistency of Scene Numbering menu item tweaked
1.2.452
24-Oct-2013
- If you've been using the previous 1.2.451 update, please update to this one
- Addresses several issues related to revision enhancements in 1.2.451
- Autocompletions were not always working perfectly in revision mode
- Fountain importing improvements
- More powerful scene (re)numbering functionality
- Unlocked A pages are assigned a revision color if appropriate
1.2.451
17-Oct-2013
(This update should be considered a beta release. While everything has been tested quite thoroughly at this point, it's recommended that you be careful about using this update for any mission-critical work and to back up lots and often which I'm sure you do anyway.)
- Greatly improved revisions handling
- Fixed a layout issue with multiple following static elements
- Fixed a capialization-matching issue with Replace Character Name
- Upgraded PDF output
- Wasn't always scrolling to the caret when returning to script view from index cards
- Checking for errors no longer calls a final Transition element an error
- Navigator no longer improperly (re)positions when adjusting outline in index card view
- Fixed improper linebreaking on punctuation immediately following an ellipsis
- Fixed an issue with partial-line-selection pasting
- Wasn't always properly autocapitalizing when tabbing to a new element
- Better repositioning when undoing/redoing a change in element style
- Scene numbering/locking fixes and improvements
- More powerful/flexible document comparison
- Typing speed optimization
- Better spellchecking of words with mixed formatting
- Resetting session stats wasn't resetting the net new page count
- Prettier autocapitalize
- Restored additional functionality to the demo version (which still has watermarks and the register reminder popup)
- Architectural/internal improvements
- User interface improvements
1.2.448
23-Aug-2013
- When both custom page colors and revision colors are turned on, custom page color is maintained (only) for unrevised pages
- Improvements to autocompletion handling for scene headings
- Cleaned up report output by omitting scene numbers when not turned on
- Added Final Draft style shortcuts for marking/unmarking revisions
- Hitting Enter at the end of a paragraph no longer marks that point as a revision
- Fixed a layout positioning issue with script icons and soft returns
- Improved focus/highlighting behaviour of keyboard shortcuts for format panel tabs
- Navigator wasn't always scrolling to current scene when searching for next/previous note/synopsis
- Navigator repositions better to current scene when changing display options
- Improved synchronization between the navigator and index cards
- Fixed a possible false negative when searching backward from the start of a line
- Fixed a case issue with import of HTML named entities from HTML/Celtx
- Fixed (MORE)/(cont'd) alignment for centered and right-justified element styles
- Fixed a regression from the previous update with dialogue numbering and (cont'd)
- Improved reports, including scene numbers (if on) for location reports
- Added Document > Online Tools > Use Last Lookup for quick shortcut reference
- Tidied up some documentation
- Fixed an issue with index card cutting/undoing
- Added a dialogue report to Document > Reports to consolidate all of a specific character's dialogue
- Better sorting of mixed case in character/location lists, reports, etc.
1.2.447
29-Jul-2013
- Fixes an issue with incorrect dialogue numbering over a page break
1.2.446
28-Jul-2013
- Characters, Locations, and Other panels were unnecessarily disabled in index card view
- Better visibility of invisibles on non-white backgrounds
- Index cards sometimes not redrawing when switching to minimal full-screen
- Caret was not always properly repositioning when closing the find panel
- Fixed unnecessary scrolling when deleting an index card
- Fixed a possible Navigator mouse-button crash
- When scene numbers are shown, they now also appear in the Navigator
- RTF wasn't adding '(cont'd)' for continued dialogue
- Comparing documents now includes both full file paths in the output header
- File path tooltip for document tabs
- Better additional logging info for PDF output
- Added shortcut key for Paste Unformatted
- Added non-breaking hyphen
- More accurate layout of non-breaking characters when showing invisibles
- Fixed a condition where an automatic dialog could come up during over/under a printing progress dialog
- Working (on working) around a Save As PDF error re: Type 1 (PostScript) fonts
- Better handling of Tab to next element
- Index cards improvements
- Navigator scrollbar wasn't always repositioning properly when switching documents
- File > Revert To Saved keeps the re-opened tab in the same position, instead of putting it at the end
- Addressed an issue with slow printing that some users were experiencing
- Windows - fixed several just-introduced layout glitches with the font dialog
- Mac - fixed a potential crash when cancelling printing
1.2.443
4-Jul-2013
- Mac - Fixed code-signing for non-app-store build
- File > Save As PDF doesn't auto-open PDF file (as it did for a couple of updates)
- Windows - fixed a regression from 1.2.442 affecting keyboard shortcuts for certain dialogs, including Reformat
- Fixed some spelling underline redrawing (or lack thereof)
- Guard against rare crash(es) when closing document(s)
- Change Character Name wasn't properly handling spaces and punctuation for determining capitalization
- Improved some ruler showing/hiding behavior
- Improved import of scene intros from Final Draft (.fdx)
- Fixed an issue with importing/pasting text from other sources (such as HTML)
- Added the capability to hide/show note and synopsis icons while editing
- Better copy-to-clipboard support for Final Draft's quaintly archaic clipboard handling
1.2.442
21-Jun-2013
- Fountain import/export improvements
- Preferences window size was too narrow on Linux
- Fixes a keyboard issue with 1.2.440 for Windows
1.2.440
19-Jun-2013
- User interface speed improvements re: tab-switching
- Improvements to tab re-ordering (by drag-and-drop)
- Fixes to smart word selection
- Fixes to RTF export
- Improved scroll-while-selecting behavior in minimal full-screen mode
- Improvements to character autocompletion
- Fixed a possible positioning/selection bug when canceling spellcheck dialog
- Fixed potentially incorrect first-word-finding when checking spelling
- Prettier rendering of a couple of invisibles
1.2.438
6-Jun-2013
- Improvements to full-screen mode
- Ruler is properly hidden/restored going back and forth between script and index cards
- Another little Fountain import fix
- Enhancements to working with index cards
- Fixes a temporarily non-repainting (cont'd) issue
- Fixed a page border redraw artifact in Normal view on OS X
- Global dictionary modifications are saved immediately
- Added shortcut key to cycle view mode
- Improvements to next-speaking-character autocomplete
- Fixed some unnecessary autocomplete flickering
1.2.437
25-May-2013
- Improved Fountain import and pasting
- Optional estimated total running time
- Fixed a (MORE) redraw glitch
- Improved dialog layout for larger font sizes
- Ability to insert multiple unnumbered pages at the start
- Fixed code-signing for OS X releases
- This is the last release with official support for Mac OS X on PowerPC
1.2.436
14-May-2013
- Better handling of preference-loading (zoom, brightness) due to locale issues
- Addressed improper spacing with built-in PDF output for some fonts/styling
- Synopsis icon should no longer obscure a revision asterisk
- Fixed a potential crash when opening a document with a dialog active on a blank document
- Changed File > Page Setup to Print Setup (due to ambiguity with Document > Page Layout)
- Removed auto (cont'd) from certain things like dual-dialogue columns where it doesn't make much sense
- Fixed an encoding issue for HTML (and .epub) output
- Importer/exporter improvements
- Improved logic for line-breaking on hyphens and dashes
- Fixed a regression re: highlighting of non-standard screenplay fonts
- Improved additional logging information (for troubleshooting, etc.)
- More explicit versioning for OS X and Windows builds
- Undoing Change Character Name might not refresh display properly
- Improved latency of feedback for spelling when typing (i.e., underlining)
- Character (cont'd) over a page break was not always reflecting editing of the previous character name
- "FADE IN:" gets forced to left-alignment when typing
- Smarter repositioning to last typing position when re-opening a document
1.2.435
23-Apr-2013
- Changed first page number default to not show on the first page
- Also updated first page number for downloadable templates
- Improved algorithm for determining a standard screenplay font
- Fixed an issue with drag-and-drop from the end of the document
- Fixed selection-drawing for non-standard fonts
- Addressed an issue with drag-and-drop behaviour with the navigator and index cards under Linux
1.2.434
21-Apr-2013
- Added arbitrary zoom to View > Zoom
- Some soft returns were being incorrectly underlined
- Improved importing of HTML with UTF-8 encoding
- Improved exporting of paper/page size to RTF
- Fixed a soft-return-related layout crash
- Fixed ruler sometimes not repainting when the window layout changes
- Improved theming of ruler panel
- Better selection rendering in some cases
- Fixed drawing of (invisible) soft-return arrow for non-fixed-width fonts
- Soft returns display better in navigator and index card view
- Better rendering of leading anchor edge of selection for non-standard fonts
- Better display of splashscreen on Linux
- Subtitle is now always visible in the title page editor on Linux, due to a problem with window resizing behavior
1.2.432
8-Apr-2013
- Added Show Scenes and Content to the Navigator's Show menu
- Improvements to certain cases of layout over a page break
- Better update-checking behavior
- Better triple-click paragraph selection behavior
- Improved layout of preferences dialog on some platforms (mainly Linux)
1.2.431
31-Mar-2013
- Fixed a crash that could occur if break-on-sentences was enabled
- Also improved end-of-line navigation for break-on-sentences
1.2.430
30-Mar-2013
- Enhanced theming engine, including a new "Light" theme choice for those who find the default too dark
- Fixed behavior of Reformat dialog with custom element styles
- Fixed comparing documents with nonmatching custom element styles
- Fixed an issue where drag and drop might sometimes not work (at the end of a document)
- Spell check dialog could crash on applying a change (regression from 421)
- Fixes to find-and-replace and replacing character names
- Fixes to parenthetical layout with mixed formatting
1.2.425
13-Mar-2013
- Fixed a lingering break-on-sentences bug
1.2.424
12-Mar-2013
- Fixed warnings being issued when autosaving (due to the new timestamps)
- Fixed a crash that could occur upon closing a document (as a result of changes in 1.2.420
- Additional stability fixes
- Act break formatting
- Updated built-in stage play and television templates
- Updated additional templates using Act elements
- Dual dialogue formatting has been updated
- Improvements to repainting when making revisions, etc.
- Fixed duplicate drawing of note and synopsis icons across a page break
- Fixed an error where custom linespacing could potentially result in incorrect pagination when first opening a document
1.2.420
6-Mar-2013
- Capability to turn on additional logging for troubleshooting
- Title page preview wasn't using current settings
- Cleaned up repainting of static page layout (page/scene numbers, etc.)
- Added File > Recover Backup (for .autosave files)
- Autosave files are now timestamped
- Added Format > Keep With Next for individual elements
- Better keep-with-next behavior for single lines of Dialogue followed by Parenthetical
- Fixed spellchecking following deletion of a (large) selection
- Fixed some logic around number localization in recent update(s)
- Improvements to word-finding for selection and spell-checking
- Faster writing to logfile
- Clarification of bold/italic/underline options in font dialog on Windows
- Subtitle button text wasn't showing up in Windows
- Additional leak-checking
1.2.418
25-Feb-2013
- Fixes a crashing issue with the big 1.2.417 update
- Ctrl+Enter wasn't working in Windows
1.2.417
25-Feb-2013
- Basic footer/page number capability
- Added an option to keep the current typing position (vertically) centered
- Strikethrough text
- Next/previous buttons for find panel
- Fountain import improvements
- Don't check for autocompletion within an already typed name/location
- Fixed transitions sometimes not being formatted properly when importing from text
- More accurate layout of non-standard fonts (particularly line height)
- Fixed a redraw glitch (such as overdrawing a (cont'd))
- Added .stdoc support to Adobe Story import
- Fixed a crash with pressing Enter in the Navigator
- Fixed a (Windows-only) scaling problem
- Fixed copy-and-paste between side-by-side open documents
- Attempting to replicate Final Draft's handling of margins when their metrics don't make sense
- Added shortcut keys to help menu
- Fixed a crash when modifying a custom element style that does not have an explicit base style
- Paginator was overrunning unnecessarily when repaginating earlier pages
- Improved spellchecker's handling of typographical apostrophes (smart quotes)
- Added a spellcheck crash guard for certain user dictionaries
- Option to include scene numbers in RTF export
- Properly adjusted centering for lines containing soft returns and ending in space(s)
- Multiple copies should print collated by default
- Highlights should now all print properly
- Better handling of international numbers for inputting measurements
- Improved (essentially relaxed) importation of RTF documents
- Fixed a dual-dialogue redraw issue
1.2.416
3-Feb-2013
- Fixed an issue where sometimes the last index card wouldn't show
- Startup template selection wasn't always showing properly (on Windows)
- Additional Fountain import tidying
- Improved layout and navigation for Chinese/Japanese/Korean (and other languages)
1.2.415
1-Feb-2013
- Improved handling of Fountain Action lines
- New mode for focusing the text you're currently editing
- Hold down Shift when selecting Save As Template to keep from saving element style fonts
- Removed baked-in font information from included non-Screenplay templates, as well as downloadable templates
- Fixed Find pane behaviour (regression from 414)
1.2.414
30-Jan-2013
- Adobe Story import
- Fountain paste/import fixes
- Added .md as a valid extension for Fountain
- Fixed an error in some date formatting, and added additional date formatting options
- Improved next-speaker-picking for automatic Character autocompletion popup
- Fixed layout of "CHARACTER (cont'd)" at top of page when page begins with a Parenthetical
- Fixed a couple of minor layout issues with formatting over a linebreak
- Always spellchecks current paragraph before displaying right-click context menu
- Fixed an issue with selecting Dropbox folder for Mac App Store build
- Fixed batch watermarking for Mac App Store build
- Preserve element style capitalization when copying plain text to clipboard
- Fixed a possible crash when dragging item(s) past the end in the Navigator
- Addressed an issue where 'Break on sentences' didn't always break on sentences
- Fixed a bug with the view mode rarely not being set properly
1.2.413
- Fixes a regression from 412 with improper line-breaking on multiple spaces
1.2.412
- Improved text layout and rendering
- Fixed layout of soft returns
- Fixed layout/spacing of invisibles and spelling markup
- Column box outlines were not being drawn offscreen
- Page metrics normalized for standard font size
- Certain unusual punctuation combinations (such as ".word") no longer cause an inappropriate line break
- Better end-of-line behavior for navigation and selection when breaking on a non-space
- Properly set paragraph revision when cutting or pasting already-revised paragraphs
- Selection of a single-character line wasn't working (due to an earlier regression)
- Save As PDF title page output improvements
- Fixed PDF output issue with soft returns getting displayed as an empty box
- Printing wasn't working properly from the help viewer
- Title page editor wasn't immediately updating title font when changed
- Option subtitle in title page editor
- Field placeholders for additional page number formatting
- User templates were not always loading properly if set as the default template
- Smart selection behaves better when selecting
- Custom revision sets
- Mac App Store - fixed a filetype selection issue when adding templates
- Mac App Store - fixed a focus issue when adding templates or dictionaries
- Mac App Store - Online Services (i.e., Open from/Save to Dropbox) working again
- Mac App Store - Fixed a bug when dragging panes to rearrange window elements
1.2.410
- Fixed a layout-over-pagebreak issue
- Fixed an issue with arrow-key up/down navigation of columns
1.2.409
- Fixed where report generation could crash on an empty document
- Fixed a situation where typing could temporarily draw over following text
- Some Unicode characters/documents were not scaling property when printing on Windows
- Fixed where report generation could crash on an empty document
- Fixed menu shortcut key behaviour for index cards on Windows
- Improved RTF export of some symbols
- Fixed some potential title page layout issues
- Print preview for title pages
- Fixes to soft return layout
- Fixed missing (CONTINUED) for scene 1 breaking over a page
1.2.403
- Document comparison
- Check for script formatting errors
- Scene text display for index cards
- Fixed inclusion of character extensions in Character element autocomplete lists
- Next-character guessing only picks from the character roster
- Fixed an issue for location report generation when importing from Final Draft
- Improved importing of Final Draft scene intro lists
- Fixed a potential splashscreen crash/hang on Linux
- Fixed a index card synopsis-editing focus issue
- Optimized memory of many editing operations
- Find Previous Highlight wasn't always working properly
- Fixed a regression from 1.2.400 with rendering soft returns
- Mac App Store file dialog fixes
- Mountain Lion full-screen window fixes
1.2.400
- Fixed some redraw issues while typing
- Fixed some layout and redraw issues with soft returns
- Spelling underlining was off for some mixed/nonstandard fonts
- Under certain conditions, automatic spellchecking might not properly resume
- Some tooltips were not getting properly hidden
1.2.399
- Automatic parsing of scene headings accepts more variations on INT. PLACE - DAY
- Better font scaling for non-monospaced fonts (especially on Windows)
- Better handling of diacritics and other Unicode combining characters
- Shortcut for 100% zoom wasn't working; changed to not be shadowed by element shortcut
- Fixed smooth scrolling (Windows) for navigator and index cards
- Improved detection of Retina display (OS X)
- Fixed selection-typeover redrawing, which was sometimes leaving typed-over text
1.2.397
- Character autocomplete now prefers characters from the current scene
- Fixed a Windows bug with smooth-scrolling mousewheels
- Fixed smartquote behavior when following punctuation
- Fixed some line-spacing behavior when typing in a nonstandard font
- Only confirms nonstandard font change if the font itself is being changed
- Fixed possible mouse cursor flickering when typing
- Addressed spurious autocapitalization when opening to previous position
- Properly dismiss open autocomplete when scrolling
- Fixed temporary appearance of unnecessary (cont'd) when typing
- Change Character Name wasn't always updating the display
- Improved focus handling for notes and synopsis popups
- Navigator page number wasn't always updating
- Improved Retina rendering of interface text
1.2.396
- Changing the document font wasn't checking for standard screenplay fonts
- Added shortcut keys to rebuild Character and Location lists
- Disabled cross-element deletion
- Better handling of spacing/scaling for Unicode glyphs
- Fixed a potential numbering bug
- Better handling of .fdx import multiline note/synopsis spacing
- Fixed .fdx import synopsis color
- RTF import was losing some manual formatting
1.2.395
- Fixed overprinting of scene numbers when mixing formatting in a Scene Heading
- Fixed a regression re: handling text from plain-text sources
1.2.394
- Fixed a Windows copy/paste/drag-drop regression
- Windows wasn't properly hiding the mouse pointer while typing
1.2.393
- Automatic recognition of transitions
- Better mousewheel scrolling in the navigator for standard mousewheels
- Fixed extra characters in RTF Unicode import in some circumstances
- Fixed a couple of issues with initially setting the index cards position
- Fixed a lingering issue with drag-and-drop of some Unicode text
1.2.392
- Smooth pixel scrolling on OS X
- Fixed caret flicker when scrolling or panning
- Added a global dictionary (in addition to the per-document user dictionary)
- Fixed RTF import of some Unicode characters
- Fixed blank documents when importing old Final Draft (.fdr) files under some circumstances
- Fixed potential mishandling of omitted scene numbers in some circumstances
- Jump over unintentional trailing spaces when hitting Tab or Enter
- Fixed an alignment issue with scene numbers when using a nonstandard font
- Exporting to Final Draft (.fdx) now marks revisions
1.2.388
- Session statistics and session timer
- Fixed Mac App Store icon
- Back/forward buttons in help viewer weren't working properly
- Addressed an issue with wrong paper size in File > Page Setup
- Previous editing position wasn't being remembered properly
- Fixed FDX import of non-proportional font for "General" element
- Fixed horizontal positioning for intermixed formatting of non-proportional text
- Copy As Fountain was missing some last-line formatting
- Fixed Celtx import of named HTML entities
- Fixed title page vertical positioning of title
- Fixed a copy/paste selection regression
1.2.387
- Automatic next-character guessing fix
- Fixed a problem printing from the help viewer
- Fixed Fountain import default synopsis color
- Fixed broken formatting for Fountain comment import
- Improved Fountain section importing
- Addressed an Android issue with tapping an editing command/button while text is selected
1.2.386
- Better backspace/deletion guard
- Sporadic Navigator jumpiness addressed
- Go To dialog will now finish active pagination before attempting to find the target
- Fixed minor redraw issues
- Clipboard issue on Windows 7: 'Couldn't register clipboard format'
- Proper fix for unintentionally copying whole paragraphs
- Final Draft export improvements
- Fountain import/export improvements
1.2.385
- Fix for Print/Save As PDF generating blank pages
1.2.384
- Mac OS X shortcut for tab switching
- Fixed "Paginating..." stuck in status line when not paginating
- Hide mouse cursor when typing
- Fix for copying or cutting paragraph/element
- Scroll bar fix for roster lists
- Hold down Shift when changing Upper/Lower Case to toggle Title Case
- Implemented a half-second delay when backspacing or deleting across elements to prevent accidental deletion
1.2.383
- Enhanced for Retina displays with high-density text rendering
- Fix to better preserve the type of element(s) when pasting/dragging
- No longer autosaves when the document has not been modified since the last autosave (less irritating with Dropbox notifications, for instance)
- Better handling of columns in custom element styles
- Fixed keyboard navigation of columns
- Fixed a style reconciliation regression introduced with 1.2 causing separately format words to format text in between
- Improvements to autocomplete popup (re)drawing
- Other minor fixes
1.2.380
This initial release for version 1.2 includes a number of new features as well as a long list of enhancements and fixes.
New features:
- Index Cards
For those accustomed to working with virtual 3x5 cards, Fade In now has a robust interface for viewing and organizing a screenplay using index cards.
- Multi-Column Formatting
In addition to standard screenplay dual-dialogue formatting, it is now possible to do true multi-column formatting for things like AV scripts, radio scripts and more. New installable templates are available.
- Change Character Name
It is now possible to automatically change a character name throughout a document, maintaining correct formatting and capitalization.
- Show Invisibles
Reveals formatting of spaces, element indenting, hard returns, soft returns and column blocks.
- Scheduling Export
The new scheduling export architecture will provide the foundation to give production planners the tools they need today instead of ten years ago.
- Additional Templates
New downloadable script templates include AV two-column, radio, multimedia, and graphic novel.
Enhancements and fixes:
- Layout and rendering optimizations for improved typing speed
- Scrolling speed optimizations
- Optimizations to selection rendering
- Improvements to PDF output and batch watermarking
- Added a warning on Mac OS X for incompatible fonts for PDF output
- Addressed an issue where printing all pages to PDF sometimes didn't print all pages
- Added a preference to remember the last editing position when reopening a document
- Changing the overall document font is now easier and more straightforward (i.e., "Change Document Font")
- Fixed rendering of complex glyphs by outputting non-normal cells at once instead of character-by-character
- Improved Asian language support (via the above)
- Fix for parsing international characters in scene headings for locations list
- Better/faster caching of built-in element basestyles
- Fixes to Tab behavior for Character, Dialogue, and Parenthetical elements
- Optionally auto-install saved templates
- Improvements to Final Draft import and export of dual dialogue
- Additional Final Draft fixes
- Added support for Fountain's two-spaces-ending-a-line formatting
- Additional Fountain fixes
- Improved Unicode HTML import/export
- Improved Unicode Celtx import
- Improved RTF character set and codepage import
- Scrivener import improvements
- Fixed a potential inaccuracy in Navigator's Page x of y display
- Fixed an issue with formatting over a linebreak
- Enabled overlay scrollbars for Ubuntu Unity (requires 11.10 or later)
- Warning dialog when trying to change entire document font with Select All
- Page numbering now follows the 10AA method, as opposed to 10A1
- Improved page relocking
- Improved scene relocking
- Notes can now be dragged to move them within a document
- Creating a synopsis defaults to the last-created synopsis color
- Fixed a potential report generation crash for empty Character elements
- Smarter Registration preference pane
- Optimization and stabilization improvements to pagination
- Removed unnecessary file extensions in Manage Templates > Install
- Fixed occasional non-display of "CONTINUED:" when redrawing the page
- Fixed empty Open Recent file list on Windows when starting up with no document open
- Shortcut key for Check Spelling
- Various other user interface and functionality improvements
Mobile versions:
- Night mode displays text as white-on-black
- New app settings (from the menu on Android or Settings on iOS)
- Font sizes can be adjusted separately for editing and viewing
- Better editing mode appearance and behavior
- Improvements to editing of complex formatting
- Improvements to sync architecture
- Better checking for Android tablets
- Various internal improvements
1.1.369
- Please note that this is a transitional release between versions 1.1 and 1.2; folders and outline levels will not be displayed or preserved by 1.1.360 and earlier
- Rearchitected Navigator with folders, outline levels, and multiple item selection
- Fountain outline support, and other Fountain improvements
- Addressed a crash on GTK when closing/opening documents with Navigator hidden
- Added an Apply Element dialog
- User interface and documentation improvements
1.1.360
- Mac OS X now uses .plist for preferences
- Additional Mac fixes for MAS
- Fixed an encoding issue with text handling from external sources
- Related speedup in some cases affected by the above
- Right-clicking misspelled words now puts the choices at the top of the context menu
1.1.359
- Scrivener import support
- EPUB export improvements and fixes
- Logging enhancements
1.1.356
- Element shortcuts on a non-blank line now insert a new element at the current position
- Element reformat-only shortcuts are now Shift+shortcut (Windows) or Option+shortcut (Mac)
- Enhancements to how selection is handled for whole-paragraph cut/copy/drag
- Better handling of offscreen typing when adding new pages
- Improvements to repagination/layout after cutting large (offscreen) selections
- Fixes several issues with typing/deleting dialogue over a page break
- Better handling of (cont'd) after character names
- Fixes a Save As PDF crash for some limited-character-set fonts (such as Courier Final Draft) when using non-English characters
- Improved Help index formatting
- Fixes EPUB export encoding
- Improved handling of the Author field for EPUB export
- Removed letter-key shortcuts for elements for architectural and future-development reasons
- Alt+number Windows shortcuts for elements added to shortcut key help
1.1.355
- EPUB export for creating .epub ebooks with either book or screenplay formatting
- Fixes several of import/export regressions
1.1.353
- Fixes a title page formatting error introduced with the previous update
- You may need to check the formatting of any title pages edited with the previous 1.1.351 update
1.1.351
- Improvements to Final Draft (.fdr) import
- Improvements to other importers, as well, including Final Draft (.fdx), Celtx, and HTML screenplay
1.1.350
- Final Draft .fdr import
- HTML screenplay import
- Fixed Navigator "Show" button
- Check for illegal characters being pasted into title page
1.1.349
- Save as PDF - title page fixes
1.1.348
- Maintenance release
- Fixed an issue with revision marking sometimes not being carried over a pagebreak
1.1.346
- Fountain 1.0 support
- Added Show as Synopsis to Navigator display options (in addition to Show Scenes Only and Show Scenes and Synopsis)
- Fixed unintentional underlining of dialogue numbers when Character element style is underlined
1.1.345
- Fixed a navigation issue left over from 1.1.342
- Fixed a filename error with PDF watermarking on Windows
- Refined implementation of Tab at the end of a non-empty line
1.1.343
- Fixed help viewer loading/display for a handful of Windows users
- Other minor fixes
1.1.342
- Printing and title page improvements
- Fixes to some sporadic dual-dialogue layout and navigation issues
- Background spellchecking optimizations
1.1.341
- SPMD import/export improvements
- Updated SPMD support as per changes in the spec
- Fixed using a user template as the startup template
- Fixed some editing preferences not getting saved/restored reliably
- Fixed a zoom scaling error on Windows
- Fixed incorrect title page centering of multiline titles
- More control over scene CONTINUEDs
- Formatted text import - handle hard linebreaks within a paragraph
- Formatted text export - export lines with hard linebreaks
- Other under-the-hood fixes, improvements, and optimizations
1.1.336
- Improvements to pagination and locking pages
- Control/Cmd+Backspace to delete a word
- Revisions to help documentation
1.1.334
- User interface improvements
- Zoom presets now include 50% and 175%
- Light cursor on dark page backgrounds
- Live spellchecking properly resets red underlining when turned off/on
1.1.333
- Improved RTF import (particularly from messier sources, of which MS Word is the worst offender)
- Improved Final Draft (.fdx) import (particularly from sources that aren't Final Draft)
- Improved formatted text import
- Reformat dialog user interface fixes
1.1.332
- Ability to customize the editing window color
- Improved IME support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean input
- Built-in template fixes
- Improved importing
- Fixes to HTML export
- Fixes to RTF export
- Interface improvements
1.1.330
- Improved Unicode support, including input methods
- Addressed possible slowdown/sluggishness
1.1.329
- Preliminary dialogue numbering for animation scripts
- Shortcut key now toggles ruler panel
- Added Mac Reference look-up tool on OS X
- Fixed .fdx import line spacing
1.1.327
- Optional ruler for easily adjusting line length
- RTF export
- Mouseover notes/synopses
- Menu UI optimizations
- Navigation and mouse drag-to-select fixes on Linux
- Fixed possible crash on Windows when dragging-and-dropping a file to open it
- Various other minor fixes
1.1.320
- Fixed Unicode spellchecking
- Unicode case-insensitive comparison
- "Safe" saving: original is not overwritten until save is successful
- Better Unicode printing on Linux (when libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 are installed)
- Fix for better handling of modified Normal Text font/size
- Fix to "CHARACTER (cont'd)" for dialogue that spans more than two pages
- Fix to highlighting alignment in PDF output
- Better rendering/alignment of mixed font styles
- Fixes to full screen minimal editing shortcuts on Windows
- Fixes to toolbar icon rendering
1.1.316
- Final Draft (.fdx) import/export of page margins and style indents
- Final Draft (.fdx) import/export of scriptnotes and scene descriptions/synopses
- Better management of multiple revision sets
- Improved Unicode support
- Minor revisions to the built-in Screenplay template
- Greater printing flexibility, such as printing selected revisions and character sides (as well as print preview and other printing fixes)
1.1.311
- Fixed a harmless but annoying startup error on some installations
1.1.310
- Added an option to break on sentences, i.e., to avoid breaking a page mid-sentence
- Fixed a rare-ish redraw problem with a parenthetical continued to the next page
- Prettier fade in/out for Full Screen Minimal mode
1.1.303
- A new, full-screen, page-only, no-distractions mode called Full Screen Minimal
1.1.300
- Support for user-installed templates (such as these)
- Enhancements to built-in templates
- Improvements to Final Draft dual dialogue import/export
- Improvements to Celtx import, specifically illegal (?) characters
1.1.299
- Fully editable dual dialogue
1.1.294
- Allows installation of user templates, and provides better integrated management of user-installed templates and dictionaries
- It's recommended that any previous user-installed dictionaries be removed and reinstalled using the new method