What's new in Comic Life 3.5.24
Jan 11, 2023
- Improvements:
- App Store release is universal
- Fixed text alignment control on Apple Silicon
- Fixed an issue with Media Browser disabling
New in Comic Life 3.5.23 (Dec 7, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Restored classic toolbar style and fixed the toolbar customization presentation
New in Comic Life 3.5.22 (Nov 17, 2022)
New in Comic Life 3.5.21 (Sep 4, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Fixed a bug that prevented editing lettering text in latest macOS
- Fixed an issue with saving the script editor visibility
New in Comic Life 3.5.20 (Apr 6, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Fixed a layout regression with large fonts
New in Comic Life 3.5.19 (Mar 7, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Fixed a bug when aligning extension balloons
- Fixed a bug where images dragged from Photos are low resolution
- Fixed a bug where thumbnails are flipped on Monterey
- Fixed a crashing bug when importing comics
- Fixed a bug where the app could freeze when resizing balloons
New in Comic Life 3.5.18 (Nov 17, 2020)
- Fixed issue when duplicating groups of elements
- Trackpad pinch now resizes selected element
- Big Sur compatible
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.17 (Jul 28, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Added space above the first page for easier editing
- Added feature to distribute multiple elements evenly horizontally and vertically
- Added keyboard shortcuts for Bring Forward/Send Backward
- Restored “Invisi-panel” and “No Frame” styles in Blank (with Styles) template
- Restored missing help pages
- Fixed ruler guide dragging issue
- Fixed a crash or freeze when closing document in Full Screen mode
- Fixed element well hidden setting on document re-open
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.16 (Apr 29, 2020)
New in Comic Life 3.5.15 (Mar 20, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Dragging from script to page now works again
- Adjusting size with the Metrics inspector no longer requires units
- Fixed crash when editing new lettering while also changing styles
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.14 (Jan 20, 2020)
- Improvements:
- PDF images are visible once more in the Media Browser
- Watermark no longer initially appears when editing comics opened from Finder
- Printing compatibility improvements
- Other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.12 (Nov 15, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Fixed the performance regression with large comics
- Fixed a crash when dragging from the script editor
- Fixed a crash when quitting the app
New in Comic Life 3.5.11 (Nov 1, 2019)
- Improvements:
- macOS 10.15.1 Catalina compatible
- Modernized Photo Browser
- Fixed a crash when reordering page from imported comic
- Fixed a crash in the halftone inspector
- Removed Facebook upload option due to lack of support from Facebook
- Improved performance of comics with PDF images
- Improved snap to grid accuracy
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.10 (Oct 3, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Removed Flickr integration for user protection
New in Comic Life 3.5.9 Build 35475 (Sep 14, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Fixes cosmetic issues related to the latest MacOS
- Fixes an image folder scrolling issue
- Templates categories are properly sorted once more
New in Comic Life 3.5.8 Build 35216 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Fixes a random crashing bug when working with multiple documents.
New in Comic Life 3.5.7 Build 35166 (Mar 15, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Fixes camera frame grabbing with High Sierra
- PDF images inside PDF exports are no longer rasterized
- Fixes various cosmetic UI issues with High Sierra
New in Comic Life 3.5.6 Build 35018 (Dec 15, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Fixed a UI issue with the titlebar
- Fixed a bug when pasting PDF images
- Fixed a bug when saving some version 1 Comic Life files
New in Comic Life 3.5.4 Build 34081 (Feb 1, 2017)
- Lightroom integration improvements
- "Show in Finder" now available in context menu when external image is selected
- Page Up and Down keys now page through the comic
- Performance improvement when using full page halftone fills
- Other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.3 Build 33083 (May 24, 2016)
- Fixed a crashing bug when exporting to Photos.
New in Comic Life 3.5.2 Build 32903 (Apr 27, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Selection of images with transparency now works reliably
- Master page feature is functioning correctly again
- Sample script English keywords now function in all localizations
- Performance improvements for large scripts
New in Comic Life 3.5.1 Build 32654 (Mar 24, 2016)
- Fixed the fill control in the format bar
- Grouped items can now be freely resized
New in Comic Life 3.5 Build 32604 (Mar 21, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Lots of beautiful new templates
- New full-color halftone fill option
- Script text now replaces text in templates
- And many other improvements and fixes
New in Comic Life 3.1.3 Build 32328 (Nov 23, 2015)
- Fixed a text layout bug that appeared with El Capitan
- Grid display is now correctly oriented on landscape pages
New in Comic Life 3.1.2 Build 32215 (Oct 5, 2015)
- Fixed a bug occurring with recent Macs that causes some 3.0 filters to fail
- Improved text layout within thought balloons
- Significantly reduced app size due to improved asset compression
New in Comic Life 3.1.1 Build 32015 (Jul 28, 2015)
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.1 Build 31767 (May 21, 2015)
- Improvements:
- Support for the new ‘Photos’ app (Mac OS X 10.10.3+)
- Lightroom support added
- Image resolution control for PDF export via ‘Export to PDF’ menu
- A Script only document can now be saved as a Template
- ‘Lettering’ now supports letters with accents/umlauts
- ‘Zoom > Actual Size’ view is now 1:1 (Mac OS X 10.7+)
- iPhoto searching now drastically improved (especially) with large photo libraries
- Opening a user created template, no longer opens the ‘Script Editor’ view
- The Script is now being printed when selected via ‘Print…’ menu
- ‘Export to Facebook’ integration now working correctly
- Additional bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.8 Build 30813 (Jan 31, 2015)
- Improvement:
- Fixed bug that forced extension balloons to be the same type as the primary balloon
New in Comic Life 3.0.7 Build 30716 (Jan 7, 2015)
- Fixed crashes when exporting large images
- Improved quality of document icon thumbnail
- Fixed problems selecting new fonts
- Other minor fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.6 Build 30403 (Dec 5, 2014)
- Major localization update – including new support for Portuguese!
- Fixed a crash when exporting on Yosemite
- Fixed a crash when deleting a smart shape
- Fixed an issue where snap to grid would not always align perfectly
- Other fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.5 Build 29752 (Sep 11, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Improved handling of images from photo library
- Eliminated thin lines drawn over the comic at certain zoom levels
- Improved handling of embedded EPS files
- Fixed a problem with duplicated elements when importing older comics
- Other fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.4 Build 27964 (Mar 5, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Improved compatibility when opening files created with Comic Life 1
- Improved reliability when using the media browser
- Fixed a bug where the app could hang when saving changes while quitting
- Unfiltered image quality is preserved when exporting to PDF
- Sub-pixel artifacts eliminated when rendering to bitmap images
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.3 Build 27630 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Off page elements are now visible once more
- Text edits are now undoable
- Image copy/paste from other apps more reliable
- And other fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.2 Build 27542 (Jan 13, 2014)
- Improvements:
- iPhoto exporter is available once more
- Comic Life 1 style outlining effects supported via the "Compact" stroke option
- Hold "command" key to position a bubble independently of its tail
- Compatibility improvements to the Old Filters
- Improved support for Retina MacBook Pros
- Crash when re-opening documents fixed
- And other fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.1 Build 26998 (Oct 23, 2013)
- Fixes a crashing bug when triple-clicking on a text element
- A locked element remains locked as intended
- Improved re-selection of image inside locked panel
- Fixed missing localizations on OS X 10.8+
- Script Editor can now have traditional Chinese or Japanese text
- Copying mixed styled objects now pastes correctly
- Improved Panel Layouts visual legibility
- Fixed a visual anomaly with balloon tail tips
- The default template for File > New is now 'Blank (with Styles)' which now includes new styles incorporating new stylistic options and filter settings
- Plus other various bugfixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0 Build 26878 (Oct 17, 2013)
- Integrated script editor with SmartScript™ text processing, including dedicated script templates
- Instant alpha tool - for quickly knocking out the background of images
- Balloon variety picker
- Balloon tail thickness selector
- Precision balloon tail control including connecting tails
- 17 advanced parametric image filters, including
- Rotoscope, Paintoscope, Hatched, Sketched, Smooth, Pen, Retro and more.
- Find & Replace - great for quickly changing a characters name
- 191 built-in creative fill options including speedlines, halftones, textures and tiles
- 11 stroke types from clean lines to scratchy pens
- 16 page texture overlays
- 3D lettering option for big, blocky comic titles
- Smart alignment guides
- Master page for repeating design elements
- Two-up page view, including facing pages
- Opacity controls for balloons
- (including panels, captions and shapes)
- Hideable element well
- Full screen mode (On Mac OS 10.7+)
- Blur image adjustment
- Bezier controls for warping lettering
- Text paste and match style
- Element grouping
- Rulers with user-settable guidelines
New in Comic Life 2.2.7 Build 26753 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Fixed a crash when printing with PDF image fills
- Graphic elements no longer flipped when pasted into OpenOffice, Gimp and sometimes Preview
- Custom pages sizes no longer flip width and height on re-open
New in Comic Life 2.2.6 Build 25181 (Apr 3, 2013)
- Improved reliability when saving to a network
- Added new Tablet 'page sizes' in Page Setup
- Names are now displayed when hovering over panels in Panel Layouts
- Re-enabled the ability to delete custom made "User Sizes" in Page Setup
- Added 5 missing lettering styles from 'Comic Life Deluxe' into the Blank (with Styles) template
- Copying elements to the clipboard now includes alternate font sizes
- "Camera" reenabled on some affected MacBook Air machines
- Can now drop images into balloons when using Templates
- Archive file icons now look correct
- Several translation fixes
- Plus other various bugfixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 2.2.5 Build 23960 (Nov 8, 2012)
- Improvements:
- New "Pictures" tab (in lieu of removal of "Finder" tab; due to Sandbox restrictions) [App Store version only]
- Added "Lock" and "Unlock" in the 'right-click' pop-up menu
- Image Style filter thumbnails are using the correct 'stylised' preview thumbnail again
- Unfiltered images are no longer being filtered by the 'Image Filter Resolution' setting
- A4 templates top margins are now the same size as the other margins
- "Fall" template now works correctly
- When saving as "Comic Life 2 Archive" the file icon uses the 1st page of the comic
- Element ordering is no longer lost after a copy and paste
- Images no longer exported at double size (Retina machines only)
- Plus other various bugfixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 2.2.4 Build 23128 (Sep 5, 2012)
- Improvements:
- Improved overall memory management
- Copy and pasting preserves transparency again
- Can now zoom (ctrl + two finger swipe up) without issue (affected only OS 10.8 users)
- Now able to use the Ancient History template without issue (affected only OS 10.8 users)
- Plus other various bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 2.2.3 Build 22896 (Jul 25, 2012)
- Improvements:
- Mountain Lion compatible
- When a blank template is selected the panel layouts are now selected
- Added a 'Blank (with Styles)' template. This is the same as 'Blank Deluxe' template - but is more obviously named
- Improved compatibility for users with Aperture + iPhoto libraries that have been unified
- Improved importing of Comic Life 1 files
- Now saves active text edits
- Ability to export a page with a transparent background restored
- Copying a panel into another app (like Preview.app) now keeps the clipping path
- ePub exporting no longer adds white border on export
- CBZ exporting no longer has its pages out of order
- The inspector now displays the correct size unit as selected in "Page Size Units" preferences
- Improved progress bar now appears when saving
- Differences between platforms clarified in Help documentation
- The "Fall" template is saveable once more
- Plus other general stability improvements, memory leaks and bug fixes
New in Comic Life 2.2.1 Build 22069 (Apr 18, 2012)
- Images again temporarily move to the top while being dragged so you can drop them in any panel
- Image no longer moves within the panel when it's resized
- The Document margins now work correctly with mm, cm, or inches
- Plus other various bugfixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 2.2 Build 21732 (Mar 15, 2012)
- Improvements:
- Now you can export comics as e-books using the ePub format or to popular comic reader applications using the CBZ format. Also cross-platform file format compatibility and various bug fixes and stability improvements.
New in Comic Life 2.1.1 Build 21672 (Jan 31, 2012)
- Trouble/crash opening some 1.X comics
- PDF output orientation locked to portrait
- PNG files losing transparency on export
- Image in panel moving when resizing the panel
- DigitalStrip limited to italics
- Lint McCree font line height differences between regular/italic/bold
- Slight misalignment of images in panels causing gaps
- Images missing from comics created from user templates
- Flickering editing area when working with vector images
New in Comic Life 2.1 Build 21472 (Jan 24, 2012)
- Improvements:
- New Templates from iPad Edition
- Improved style management
- Plus bug fixes and stability improvements.
New in Comic Life 2.0.7 Build 21256 (Dec 14, 2011)
- Various stability improvements and fixes
New in Comic Life 2.0.6 Build 20418 (Sep 13, 2011)
- Improvements:
- Fixes lettering crash when using the Font Panel to change fonts while editing
- Fixes lettering crash when entering Asian-language glyphs
- Improves usability when adding points to shapes
- Restores grid snapping when editing custom panel shapes
New in Comic Life 2.0.5 Build 20222 (Jul 19, 2011)
- Lion compatibility tweaks
- Now able to change the 'Lettering' font whilst in edit mode
- Plus several other general improvements and fixes
New in Comic Life 2.0.4 Build 20121 (Jun 2, 2011)
- Improvements:
- Facebook upload improved for users having issues
- Image export quality improved
- Template localization changes
- Balloons with stroke no longer show faint white line
- Comic Life 2 icon on HTML export view removed
- Importing Comic Life 1 document improvements
- Serial number now obfuscated in About and Registration window
- Plus several other general and stability improvements and bug fixes
New in Comic Life 2.0.3 Build 19295 (Feb 22, 2011)
- Comic Life 1.X comic import improvements
- Extended balloons now filled uniformly
- General stability and performance improvements
New in Comic Life 2.0.2 Build 19065 (Jan 21, 2011)
- Fixed an issue, which was affecting some users, that prevented Time Machine from successfully backing up
- Improved print handling for increased stability
- Improved and added some missing translations
- Improved performance when handling Lettering
- Improved camera workflow for better usability
- Improved the overall look of imported Comic Life 1 documents
- Gradient tints are now included when filling opaquely
- User page formats are now saved correctly
- Increased the maximum shadow size for elements
- Plus several other general stability improvements and bug fixes
- Fixed an issue, which was affecting some users, that prevented Time Machine from successfully backing up
- Improved print handling for increased stability
- Improved and added some missing translations
- Improved performance when handling Lettering
- Improved camera workflow for better usability
- Improved the overall look of imported Comic Life 1 documents
- Gradient tints are now included when filling opaquely
- User page formats are now saved correctly
- Increased the maximum shadow size for elements
- Plus several other general stability improvements and bug fixes
New in Comic Life 2.0.1 Build 18900 (Dec 16, 2010)
- Fixed crash when printing with tiled fill
- Changing text color no longer sometimes changes the balloon fill color
- All app icon sizes now present
- Plus other small fixes and changes
New in Comic Life 1.5.4 (Nov 4, 2010)
- Improvements:
- Fixed an image loading issue with images without file extensions on OS X 10.4 machines
- Fixed an issue that prevented copy and pasting images from another application into Comic Life on some machines
- Plus several other fixes
New in Comic Life 1.5.3 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Improvements:
- Fixed the output quality of images for Tiger and Leopard users
- Fixed a font display issue when typing accent characters
- Reduced the time to place certain images in a document
- Fixed a memory leak when using the iSight capture in Snow Leopard
- And other minor fixes
New in Comic Life 1.5.2 Build 15695 (Nov 24, 2009)
- Fixed OS X 10.4 Tiger compatibility.
New in Comic Life 1.5.1 Build 15442 (Nov 20, 2009)
- Several Snow Leopard compatibility fixes.
- Improved .PSD, .EPS and .AI file compatibility for use in comic documents.
- And other minor fixes.
New in Comic Life 1.5 Build 13827 Beta (May 7, 2009)
- New Features:
- Easily create Single Panel Comics by dropping an image onto a new blank comic page! (To turn on, go to... Comic Life > Preferences... and under "Single Panel Comics:" choose "Ask").
- Ability to import comics (File > Import Comics...).
- Now able to have a referenced image rather than copying images into the .comicdoc file (Comic Life > Preferences... > and uncheck "Copy Images into the Document").
- A single click on a page element now adds the element to the center of the page.
- Easier to duplicate a page (Page > Duplicate Page).
- iPhoto Events are now an option when making a Quick Comic.
- Improvements:
- Now easier to import single pages by dragging from one document to a different document.
- Enhanced multiple item selection and resizing performance.
- Fixed a "blank page" issue which occurred for some users when using Fixed-Resolution PDF exporting.
- Rotated and Locked Lettering now stays rotated on reload.
- Again able to delete custom styles (Edit > Delete Style).
- Balloons and Captions now expand when using the Bigger button on the Toolbar.
- Quick comic now displays page numbers correctly with more than 99 pages.
- Changed .Mac references to MobileMe.
- Image brightness adjuster now uses a full stop.
- Several translation fixes for several languages.
New in Comic Life 1.4.5 (Apr 24, 2009)
- Addresses a change in Mac OS X 10.5 relating to temporary files that was causing a loss of images within comic documents being edited over a number of days.
New in Comic Life 1.4.4 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Bug Fix: Fixes an intermittent save issue.
New in Comic Life 1.4.3 (Nov 12, 2008)
- Restored compatibility with iPhoto 6 and earlier versions.
New in Comic Life 1.4.2 (Nov 11, 2008)
- Images that are only aliased (not copied) to iPhoto Library are now able to be dragged into a Comic Life document when accessed from Events.
- Fixed printing and export quality that affected some users when system language was not English.
- Improved file compatibility when opening up a Mac created file on the Windows version.
- Users with iPhoto libraries on external hard drives may notice faster loading times.
- Several changes to Help file.
- General stability improvements and bug fixes.
New in Comic Life 1.4.1 (May 8, 2008)
- Images that are only aliased (not copied) to iPhoto Library now are able to be dragged into a Comic Life document
- Fixed an issue that was preventing 10.3.9 users from using the "Export to Image(s)" export option
New in Comic Life 1.4 (Dec 7, 2007)
- Added brightness, contrast, sharpness, exposure and saturation controls to Image Attributes
- Ability to save custom page sizes in 'Preferences'
- Images can now be seen at actual size/1:1 (CMD-0)
- iPhoto '08 Events are now accessible via the iPhoto library dropdown menu
- Improved image export quality
- New Jagged tail option for balloons
- Balloons now have the ability to be rotated
- Captions now snap to panel corners when moved in proximity
- Page size preferences can now be sized with standard measurements (mm, cm, inches)
- Pressing 'Shift' constrains an object's dimensions when resizing
- The font text size toolbar icons now resizes Lettering
- The last settings in the Export dialog are now remembered (save directory, image quality, image type)
- Pressing 'Shift' and clicking on another object adds to a multiple selection
- More page sizes added to default 'Page Size' menu
- Page Size menu has been revamped
- Added 'Export as Fixed Resolution PDF' to the Export menu
- Improved the quality of vector images displayed for PDF objects
- iPhoto export now has more options (DPI and file format)
- After copying, pastes are now offset
- Now able to duplicate objects (CMD-D)
- Each bubble in the tail of a thought balloon is now drawn progressively smaller
- Now easier to see which tail is selected when a balloon has multiple tails
- Optional integrated mailing list signup function
- Fixed an issue affecting some 10.5 Leopard users where font preferences were lost when reloading comic documents
- Videos no longer appear in the iPhoto browser
- Pasted PDF data is no longer rasterized
- Images without extensions are now accepted
- When zoomed in, the rollover action appears where expected
- Gradients now ignore any transparency settings
- Improved functionality of copying and pasting an image into a multi-imaged panel
- Several improvements to Undo
- Fixed several redraw issues pertaining to images, text and balloons
- Details are again syncing with style changes from the toolbar
- Several French translation fixes
New in Comic Life 1.3.4 (Sep 21, 2007)
- iPhoto '08 libraries should now display for those users affected
- Improved stability when using Comic Life
- Default Stylesheet has been updated to reflect the 'Defaults' in the 'Built-in' stylesheets
- Improved font and caption compatibility with Windows version
- Default stylesheet is now "Built-in: plasq-intl" so users can create words with accents without requiring a change in font