What's new in Fade In 4.1.0
Aug 14, 2023
- Added document password protection
- Additional header/footer formatting using element text
- Addressed a regression re: overlapping column text
- More consistent deletion of empty elements
- Added a prefs check for weirdly saved last_set_timer
- Improved Courier Screenplay embedding in other applications
- Better mouse drag behavior in viewer
- Import Characters/Locations/Other lists from an existing document
- Some Scene Heading tags weren’t showing up in the Tagging Report
- Additional Preferences toggles available for shortcut keys
- Mac - Fixed a possible ruler crash in native full-screen mode
- Linux - Workaround for a sporadic click-and-drag freeze
New in Fade In 4.0.19 (Jun 18, 2023)
- Refinements to full justification formatting behavior
- Fixed regression with print/PDF optimization
- Improved Create PDF image scaling
- Fixed an overlapping text issue in Continuous view
- Minor user interface tweaks and improvements
- Mac - Fixed an overlapping control in the Other panel
- Linux - Fixed a freeze that could happen importing FDX
New in Fade In 4.0.18 (May 17, 2023)
- Improvements to HTML import
- Added default page (paper) size choice new documents
- Added a preference for file-changed-on-disk checking
- Improved (MORE)/(cont’d) formatting
- Removed spurious warnings for non-printable/PDFable glyphs
- Fixed an issue with ruler resizing/updating
- Additional built-in panel layout options for split left/right
- Added stand-in Grammarly extension
- Optimized mixed-formatting output for printing and PDF
- User interface tweaks and improvements
- Text justification
- Improved tab title formatting
- Improved searching in built-in Help
- Improvements to font handling
- Windows - default Collaboration > Chat shortcut was interfering with accent combinations
- Mac - Hidden filename extensions weren’t kept hidden when saving
- Mac - Unix-style editing keys option added to Shortcut Keys
- Mac - Some Unix-style shortcut keys weren’t working properly
- Mac - Updates to Table Read to work better with macOS Ventura
- Linux - Improved installation scripts for .tar.gz package
- Linux - UI/behavior improvements
New in Fade In 4.0.17 (Oct 30, 2022)
- Double-clicking Navigator synopsis icon will (also) edit that synopsis
- Option to include notes in Create PDF
- Links weren’t always being properly generated in Create PDF
- Index card text color could appear incorrectly when printing with custom colors
- Fixed a potential issue with OMITTED numbered scene placeholders
- Added start page functionality
- Format menu element styles weren’t always being set for non-screenplay templates
- Some other minor fixes and tweaks
- Mac - Addresses a possible crash when closing/quitting with multiple files
- Linux - Workaround for possible saving/changed-on-disk freeze
New in Fade In 4.0.16 (Aug 14, 2022)
- Fixed a potential issue with Batch Watermark when printing
- Some HTML exports were outputting incorrect break tags
- Changing a selection’s case better preserves formatting therein
- Insertion point color could be wrong depending on custom color/revision combination
- Fixed an edge case layout issue with continuous view
- Tagging window was sometimes prematurely enabling the Untag button
- Improvements to printing methodology
- Made Modify Element Style easier to work with (especially for multiple styles at once)
- Better formatting of element numbers in dual dialogue
- Improvements to Dialogue Report numbering of either Dialogue or Character elements
- Better flagging of font issues for Create PDF
- Added font issues to Find Errors
- Better importing of some PDFs
- Linux - Fixed an issue with title page printing
New in Fade In 4.0.15 (May 13, 2022)
- Added “Retag” button to tagging window
- Fixed a potential tagging report issue
- Some A-pages were getting miscolored when printing with a title page
- Document revision could get reset when editing the current revision set
- Better checking if revisions have been reordered
- Addressing a rare case where all-caps styles may not work properly
- Fountain editor will select additional lines for context if necessary
- Improvements to HTML export
New in Fade In 4.0.14 (Apr 19, 2022)
- Some -escaped header/footer formatting wasn’t working properly
- Repaint header when page color changes
- Next/Previous Tag works only with visible tags
- Improved importing of certain misbehaving PDFs
- Start page properly switches to an open document if selected
- Added current document word count directly to This Session stats
- To reduce confusion, Edit Revision Set sticks with the original revision level (number)
- Added a numeric level indicator to the Edit Revision Set dialog
- Clickable links previously couldn’t be created on the title page, only in the body
- Various additional tweaks
- Mac - Toolbar was showing generic shortcut key tooltips
- Linux - Fixed fullscreen minimal menu bar behavior
New in Fade In 4.0.13 (Mar 25, 2022)
- Headers and footers were being incorrectly printed on title pages
- Adjustments to Thai language layout algorithm
- Adjustments to CJK language layout algorithm
- Better handling of revisions when pasting
- Fixes and improvements to setting of A-page revision color
- Right-click to change A-page revision color
- Can now unmark the revision color of an added A page
- Revisions Set dialog is better at remembering the current revision
- Certain RTF files containing embedded images weren’t being imported
New in Fade In 4.0.12 (Feb 24, 2022)
- More helpful enabling/disabling of numbering menu items
- Improvements to some Tagging Report internals
- Fixed a possible crash in the spelling dialog when choosing Ignore with no word found
- Fixed a potential issue with Dialogue Report generation
- Added right-arrow as an equivalent to Tab when selecting from an autocomplete popup
- New Table Read option to speak only Dialogue elements
- Better import/export of FDX headers and footers
- Some user interface clarification in the revision dialog
- Improved behavior when pasting at the top of a locked page
- Fixed a regression with automatic Character (cont’d)
- Some FDX notes weren’t being imported due to variations in the format
- Allow opening supported file types from right-click
- Better determination of revision page color for indirectly changed unlocked AB pages
- Certain punctuation could get lost on export to Formatted Text
- Fountain import treats non-printing lines as blank (in some cases) à la Highland
- Typing “(” for extension autocompletion directly after a character name will (also) autocomplete a space
- Dialogue reports weren’t properly including dialogue numbers
- Fixed a small bug with right-column typing line-shifting
- Additional minor fixes and tweaks
- Mac - File dialog (at least for saving) was getting hidden in native fullscreen
- Mac - Updated application icon
- Windows - .highland files weren’t always importing properly
- Windows - Fixed a Table Read performance issue
- Linux - Packaging improvements
- Mobile - Bug fixes and improvements
New in Fade In 4.0.12 (Feb 24, 2022)
- More helpful enabling/disabling of numbering menu items
- Improvements to some Tagging Report internals
- Fixed a possible crash in the spelling dialog when choosing Ignore with no word found
- Fixed a potential issue with Dialogue Report generation
- Added right-arrow as an equivalent to Tab when selecting from an autocomplete popup
- New Table Read option to speak only Dialogue elements
- Better import/export of FDX headers and footers
- Some user interface clarification in the revision dialog
- Improved behavior when pasting at the top of a locked page
- Fixed a regression with automatic Character (cont’d)
- Some FDX notes weren’t being imported due to variations in the format
- Allow opening supported file types from right-click
- Better determination of revision page color for indirectly changed unlocked AB pages
- Certain punctuation could get lost on export to Formatted Text
- Fountain import treats non-printing lines as blank (in some cases) à la Highland
- Typing “(” for extension autocompletion directly after a character name will (also) autocomplete a space
- Dialogue reports weren’t properly including dialogue numbers
- Fixed a small bug with right-column typing line-shifting
- Additional minor fixes and tweaks
- Mac - File dialog (at least for saving) was getting hidden in native fullscreen
- Mac - Updated application icon
- Windows - .highland files weren’t always importing properly
- Windows - Fixed a Table Read performance issue
- Linux - Packaging improvements
- Mobile - Bug fixes and improvements
New in Fade In 4.0.11 (Sep 28, 2021)
- Create PDF wasn’t properly outputting non-breaking hyphens
- Smarter document recovery behavior
- Editing a revision name wasn’t getting immediately reflected in the document revision
- Names were potentially being repeated in Gender Inclusivity Report
- Element highlighting could unintentionally include extra numbering when printing/PDFing
- PDF importer improvements
- Added “Select In Document” for scenes to Navigator right-click menu
- Some better Table Read window behavior
- Various user interface fixes and improvements
- Linux - Fixed AltGr composition key support
- Linux - Added a command-line option to override file modification checking
- Linux - Fixes a possible hang related to UI redrawing
New in Fade In 4.0.10 (Aug 4, 2021)
- Automatic capitalization of tag labels
- Added a “Find Next” option to character and location lists
- FDX export wasn’t exporting all element numbering
- FDX export’s notes were no longer being recognized by FD12
- Additional batch watermark formatting options
- Minor interface tweaks
- Windows - Fixed navigator scaling at some resolutions
- Windows - Making sure start page is visible at all scales
- Linux - Fixed ruler redrawing regression
- Linux - Attempting to mitigate some mouse freezing issues
New in Fade In 4.0.9 (Jul 18, 2021)
- Fixing regression in AdjustLineLength()
- Better (automatic) autosave backup recovery
- Fixes a possible crash in Table Read
- Comparison as revisions wasn’t properly applying all revisions
- Fixes a couple of ruler regressions
- Revert to Saved wasn’t always showing the correct document length
- Windows - Scaling fixes for arbitrary system scale factor
- Linux - Performance and behavior improvements
- Android - Stability and behavior fixes
New in Fade In 4.0.8 (Jun 29, 2021)
- Report formatting improvements
- Improved Character Report with speaking (and optionally non-speaking) appearances
- More consistent keyboard shortcuts in context menus, where appropriate
- Toolbar layout and appearance improvements
- Some numbering in columns was being incorrectly dropped
- Additional Fountain editor shortcut keys (for changing case, etc.)
- Changed maximum zoom level to 500%
- Fixed some inheritance/cascading of element styles (plus improved customization)
- Parentheticals could overrun the line boundary in dual dialogue
- Find Errors was finding spurious errors with repeated characters and dual dialogue
- One-click revision mode
- Some menu and default shortcut key reconfiguration
- Navigator wasn’t consistently refreshing on Revert to Saved
- Fixed a navigation issue with Ctrl+Home and scene numbering
- FDX importer improvements to work around issues with the FDX file format
- Added option to hide scroll bars (in viewer, navigator, and index cards)
- New option for showing page revisions
- Document remains active and editable during Table Read
- Additional minor fixes and improvements
- Android - An Android WebView update broke some typing functionality; now worked around
- Android - More reliable protection against an “Unable to save” error
- iOS - Toast notifications were getting hidden by the keyboard
- Linux - Updated to build against GTK+ 3
- Linux - Improved HiDPI scaling, new command-line options, and more
New in Fade In 4.0.7 (May 28, 2021)
- Scene numbers weren’t showing up for top-of-page scene “CONTINUED:”
- Better handling of caret color in dark mode for revised page where the revision color is white
- Fountain import improvements
- Refinement of toolbar docking/resizing behavior in certain configurations
- Additional icons for toolbars and menus
New in Fade In 4.0.6 (May 23, 2021)
- Added an optional “Document revision” in addition to “Current revisions”
- Toolbar customization (and improved sizing behavior)
- New “Flatten This Folder” in right-click menu, for Navigator folders
- Various other updates and tweaks
- Linux - keystrokes for nonbreaking space/hyphen were being ignored
New in Fade In 4.0.5 (May 14, 2021)
- Fixed an issue when trying to change a character name to an existing name
- Better behavior for some dialogs (such as character list editing)
- Custom view colors weren’t showing when a higher revision page “color” was white
- Fixed a regression with opening a .fadein file from the filesystem
- Moved non-scene element numbering to a separate submenu, for clarity
- Additional improvements to scene (and element) numbering
- Fixed some unnecessary borders (re)appearing when un-fullscreening, etc.
- Refined behavior of {Revision} header placeholder
- Added a couple of (more specific) swears to the profanity report
- Some more flexibility in scene/element starting number
- Esc key can now close additional floating windows, where appropriate
- Better RTF export of Unicode (and other things)
- Better/smarter font dialog/selection behavior
- User interface refinements
- Windows - Fixed some glitching with toolbar resizing
- Linux - Fixed a regression with the Ctrl+I shortcut not working reliably
New in Fade In 4.0.4 (Apr 28, 2021)
- Produce better results for dual dialogue numbering
- Better standardization of single-clicking on Format panel element list
- Autoupdater improvements
- Other minor fixes
- Mac - Autocompletion wasn’t always appearing when using native fullscreen mode
- Windows - Fixed a disappearing ruler issue when adjusting linelengths
New in Fade In 4.0.3 (Apr 19, 2021)
- Updated downloadable templates to remove some unnecessary placeholders
- Fixed a hiccup with numbering continued scene pages
- Improved zero-padding formatting for element numbers and header/footer
- Clarified how new element numbering appears in the Production menu
- Tags were incorrectly being printed/PDFed even when not selected
- More consistent Format panel selection behavior
- Showing a subset of revisions was behaving inconsistently
- Windows - Addressing stability re: a sporadic redraw issue
- Linux - Addresses a couple of interface regressions
- Linux - Some shortcut keys weren’t being processed by the updated library
New in Fade In 4.0.2 (Mar 30, 2021)
- Preventing autocorrect from interfering with autocompletion
- Added an option to omit Character elements from table read
- Locking some element numbers wasn’t always keeping the correct sequence
- Windows - Guarding against a library-level crash
- Mac - Autoupdate wasn’t always completing installation
New in Fade In 4.0.1 (Mar 21, 2021)
- Better startup options
- Warn where there is a collaboration incompatibility with older versions
- Fine-tuning of table read narration behavior
- Adjustments to light theme Navigator shading
- Fixed some page up/down positioning calculations
- Addressed a couple of printing and PDF scaling regressions
- Fountain editor colors follow script viewer colors
- Windows - Fixed a layout issue when restoring from minimized with the toolbar shown
- Windows - Moving tags in the Manage Tags dialog wasn’t working
- Mac - Addressed a selection repaint issue on older OS X versions
- Mac - Addressed a startup problem on older OS X versions
- Mac - Improved autoupdating
- Linux - Silenced a couple of unnecessary warnings/messages
- Linux - Fixed some key interpretation/navigation
- Linux - Fountain editor wasn’t working for a new, blank document
New in Fade In 4.0.0 (Mar 15, 2021)
- Updated application interface and appearance options
- Improved installation and updating
- Virtual table read with customizable voices
- Production breakdown tagging
- Fountain editor
- Additional reports, including revisions, gender, and more
- More powerful scene/element numbering
- Additional placeholders/formatting in headers, footers, and element numbers
- Better revision management, including the ability to show arbitrary revisions
- Additional version comparison capabilities
- More flexible font (re)formatting
- Improved autocorrection
- Expanded language and dictionary/spelling support
- Extensions, to use writing resources outside of Fade In
- Made more dialogs non-modal (such as Find and Replace)
- Additional printing/PDF options
- And much more!
New in Fade In 3.0.642 (Mar 10, 2021)
- Preparing for the release of version 4.0
New in Fade In 3.0.641 (Jan 10, 2021)
- Fixes an issue with selecting in the Navigator
New in Fade In 3.0.640 (Dec 4, 2020)
- Fixes a crash with reordering revisions
- Fixes a bug with highlighting in Create PDF
New in Fade In 3.0.639 (Nov 19, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.636 (Jul 9, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.635 (Jun 8, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.634 (Apr 27, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.633 (Apr 20, 2020)
- Fountain import enhancements
New in Fade In 3.0.632 (Apr 16, 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
- Mobile - Fixes to plain text pasting
New in Fade In 3.0.631 (Mar 8, 2020)
- Fixed a regression from 630 with typing over a selection
New in Fade In 3.0.630 (Mar 6, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.628 (Jan 20, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.627 (Dec 16, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.625 (Nov 11, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.624 (Sep 25, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.623 (Sep 2, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.622 (Sep 2, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.618 (May 24, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.616 (May 1, 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
- Mac - The text drag-and-drop caret, absent since the move to 64-bit-only, is back
- iOS - Import/export fixes
New in Fade In 3.0.613 (May 1, 2019)
- iOS - Rewritten cloud/sync layer
- iOS - Additional import/export improvements
New in Fade In 3.0.611 (Mar 7, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.610 (Feb 21, 2019)
- Fixes a File menu regression
New in Fade In 3.0.609 (Feb 21, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.608 (Jan 30, 2019)
- Improvements to index card printing
- Fixed a regression with synopsis colors in the right-click context menu
New in Fade In 3.0.606 (Jan 26, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.605 (Dec 27, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.604 (Dec 3, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.603 (Dec 3, 2018)
- View > Custom Page Colors as a preference toggle (for those wanting an easy “night mode”)
- Layout improvements when printing index cards
- 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
New in Fade In 3.0.602 (Nov 18, 2018)
- Android - Interface improvements
- Android - Better selection management for centering when editing by element
- Mac - Some italic/bold fonts were being rendered incorrectly
New in Fade In 3.0.601 (Nov 6, 2018)
- Some edge-case layout fixes
- Mac - Rendering fixes for older versions of OS X
New in Fade In 3.0.600 (Oct 28, 2018)
- Minor focus-related improvements
- Lingering Navigator drag-and-drop issue
- Mac - input method behavior (including dictation)
- Mac - tab-switching focus fixes
New in Fade In 3.0.599 (Oct 28, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.598 (Oct 10, 2018)
- Mac - Improvements to Window menu behavior
- Mac - Improved dark mode support
New in Fade In 3.0.596 (Oct 10, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.594 (Sep 27, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.592 (Jul 19, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.591 (Jul 18, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.590 (Jul 16, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.589 (Jul 9, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.588 (Jul 5, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.585 (Jun 28, 2018)
- Fixed a startup crash with the Mac App Store version
- Restored speed of Create PDF output
New in Fade In 3.0.584 (Jun 18, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.583 (May 20, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.581 (Apr 11, 2018)
- Print Preview wasn’t working properly
New in Fade In 3.0.579 (Apr 11, 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.
New in Fade In 3.0.578 (Apr 11, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.576 (Dec 18, 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)
New in Fade In 3.0.575 (Nov 26, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.573 (Oct 11, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.572 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Fixed a small clipboard memory leak at the same time
New in Fade In 3.0.571 (Oct 5, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.570 (Aug 12, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.567 (Jul 28, 2017)
- Fixes a smartquotes-typing regression in 566
New in Fade In 3.0.566 (Jul 28, 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)
New in Fade In 3.0.565 (Apr 30, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.564 (Apr 18, 2017)
- etter 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
New in Fade In 3.0.563 (Apr 3, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.562 (Mar 12, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.561 (Feb 21, 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
New in Fade In 3.0.560 (Feb 13, 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)
New in Fade In 3.0.559 (Feb 8, 2017)
- 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
New in Fade In 2.0.556 (Jan 10, 2017)
- A fixier fix for a previous fix
- Preparations for the next version
New in Fade In 2.0.555 (Jan 6, 2017)
New in Fade In 2.0.554 (Jan 5, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.552 (Dec 23, 2016)
- Fixes an arrow key regression issue from 2.0.551
New in Fade In 2.0.551 (Dec 12, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.550 (Nov 9, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.547 (Sep 2, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.546 (Aug 1, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.545 (Jun 29, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.544 (May 26, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.543 (May 18, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.542 (Apr 28, 2016)
- Fixed a regression with the 2.0.541 update.
New in Fade In 2.0.541 (Apr 28, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.540 (Mar 21, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.539 (Feb 22, 2016)
- Fixed a regression from 2.0.538 in scene length/eighths calculation
- Fixed a miscalculation related to non-normal element spacing
New in Fade In 2.0.538 (Feb 19, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.537 (Jan 18, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.536 (Dec 29, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.535 (Nov 17, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.534 (Nov 5, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.533 (Oct 7, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.531 (Sep 7, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.530 (Sep 3, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.528 (Sep 3, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.527 (Jul 21, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.526 (Jun 22, 2015)
- Selecting pages to print by revision set/color wasn't making all revision colors available when custom revision colors exist
New in Fade In 2.0.525 (Jun 22, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.523 (Jun 11, 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.
New in Fade In 2.0.522 (Jun 9, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.521 (May 4, 2015)
- Fixed an issue where overwriting could occur while typing
New in Fade In 2.0.520 (Apr 28, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.519 (Apr 15, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.517 (Mar 25, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.516 (Mar 17, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.515 (Mar 13, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.514 (Mar 2, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.510 (Feb 10, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.509 (Feb 3, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.508 (Jan 29, 2015)
- Fixes an issue with FDX import that should've been addressed in the previous update
New in Fade In 2.0.507 (Jan 28, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.506 (Jan 26, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.503 (Jan 14, 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
New in Fade In 2.0.500 (Dec 22, 2014)
- 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.
New in Fade In 1.2.491 (Dec 11, 2014)
- Final (hopefully) preparation for the update to v2
New in Fade In 1.2.489 (Dec 5, 2014)
- Improved file saving behavior
- Fixed a mistranslated 'o' accent
- Closing in on v2!
New in Fade In 1.2.487 (Nov 25, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.486 (Nov 11, 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
- Fixed toolbar (re)showing issue
- Fixed file extension selection for report saving
New in Fade In 1.2.481 (Aug 7, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.479 (Jul 8, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.477 (Jun 11, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.476 (May 28, 2014)
- Fixed a kerning error for static markup
- Fixed a potential startup crash
New in Fade In 1.2.474 (May 28, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.473 (Apr 12, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.471 (Mar 20, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.470 (Mar 6, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.467 (Feb 4, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.466 (Jan 28, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.465 (Jan 17, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.464 (Dec 19, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.461 (Dec 7, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.448 (Aug 30, 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.
New in Fade In 1.2.447 (Jul 31, 2013)
- Fixes an issue with incorrect dialogue numbering over a page break
New in Fade In 1.2.446 (Jul 31, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.443 (Jul 4, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.442 (Jun 22, 2013)
- Fountain import/export improvements
- Preferences window size was too narrow on Linux
New in Fade In 1.2.440 (Jun 19, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.438 (Jun 7, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.437 (May 27, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.436 (May 15, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.435 (Apr 24, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.434 (Apr 22, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.432 (Apr 8, 2013)
- Added NAVIGATOR_SHOW_SCENES_CONTENT
- Removed commented-out non-Unicode_*() calls
- 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)
New in Fade In 1.2.431 (Apr 1, 2013)
- Fixed a crash that could occur if break-on-sentences was enabled
- Also improved end-of-line navigation for break-on-sentences
New in Fade In 1.2.430 (Apr 1, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.425 (Mar 13, 2013)
- Fixed a lingering break-on-sentences bug
New in Fade In 1.2.424 (Mar 13, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.420 (Mar 6, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.418 (Feb 26, 2013)
- Fixes a crashing issue with the big 1.2.417 update
- Ctrl+Enter wasn't working in Windows
New in Fade In 1.2.417 (Feb 25, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.416 (Feb 4, 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)
New in Fade In 1.2.415 (Feb 2, 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)
New in Fade In 1.2.414 (Jan 30, 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
New in Fade In 1.2.413 (Dec 20, 2012)
- Fixes a regression from 412 with improper line-breaking on multiple spaces.
New in Fade In 1.2.412 (Dec 15, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.410 (Nov 21, 2012)
- Fixed a layout-over-pagebreak issue
- Fixed an issue with arrow-key up/down navigation of columns
New in Fade In 1.2.409 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Fixed where report generation could crash on an empty document
- Fixed a situation where typing could temporarily draw over the 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 a situation where typing could temporarily draw over the following text
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.403 (Oct 30, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.400 (Oct 22, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.399 (Oct 12, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.397 (Oct 1, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.396 (Sep 24, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.395 (Sep 17, 2012)
- Fixed overprinting of scene numbers when mixing formatting in a Scene Heading
- Fixed a regression re: handling text from plain-text sources
New in Fade In 1.2.394 (Sep 11, 2012)
- Fixed a Windows copy/paste/drag-drop regression
- Windows wasn't properly hiding the mouse pointer while typing
New in Fade In 1.2.393 (Sep 7, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.392 (Aug 28, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.388 (Aug 4, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.387 (Jul 27, 2012)
- 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
- Additional fixes
New in Fade In 1.2.386 (Jul 14, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.385 (Jul 4, 2012)
- Fix for Print/Save As PDF generating blank pages
New in Fade In 1.2.384 (Jul 2, 2012)
- Mac OS X shortcut for tab switching
- Removed "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
New in Fade In 1.2.383 (Jun 25, 2012)
- 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
New in Fade In 1.2.381 (Jun 21, 2012)
- Maintenance release
- Recommended for everyone who has updated to version 1.2
New in Fade In 1.2.380 (Jun 21, 2012)
- 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