Fade In Changelog

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)

  • Fixes a potential crash

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