What's new in Puzzle Maker 2.9.0
Sep 20, 2016
New in Puzzle Maker 2.8.8 (Apr 16, 2016)
- Fixes crash on flood fill in word search grid editor
- Bug fixes
New in Puzzle Maker 2.8.7 (Apr 14, 2016)
- Fixes crash on flood fill in word search grid editor
New in Puzzle Maker 2.8.6 (Sep 23, 2015)
New in Puzzle Maker 2.8.4 Build 201408 (Nov 27, 2014)
- Added word search design mask templates
- Bug fixes
New in Puzzle Maker 2.8.2 Build 201407 (Aug 23, 2014)
- Fixes bug with solution being drawn on word search with no padding.
New in Puzzle Maker 2.6.3 Build 201403 (Mar 29, 2014)
New in Puzzle Maker 2.6.2 Build 201402 (Mar 5, 2014)
- bug fixes (including Pages export bug)
New in Puzzle Maker 2.6.1 Build 201401 (Jan 21, 2014)
- Updated user interface for Retina display
- Fixed issue with web export on Chrome
New in Puzzle Maker 2.6 Build 201305 (Dec 11, 2013)
- Improved iBooks Author export
- Improved web export
New in Puzzle Maker 2.5 Build 201304 (Nov 22, 2013)
- export puzzle to PDF
- include a word bank with crossword
- bug fixes
New in Puzzle Maker 2.2.4 Build 201303 (Jul 11, 2013)
- updates Pages export to work better with iWork for iCloud
- improves web and iBooks export on the iPad
- fixes crash when default font is missing
- fixes landscape layout issue
New in Puzzle Maker 2.2.1 Build 201302 (May 1, 2013)
New in Puzzle Maker 2.2 Build 201301 (Mar 13, 2013)
- Fixes issue with small word searches
- Fixes issue with iBooks author export not saving work
- Fixes some foreign language issues
- Other bug fixes
New in Puzzle Maker 2.1 (Dec 11, 2012)
- Fixed issue with some words not able to be placed in smaller word searches.
- Fixed poor resolution of word search letters.
- Fixed occasional crashing during puzzle build.
- Web and iBook Author export fixes.
- Added ability to set image background opacity.
- Added ability to select a subset of words from the dictionary.
New in Puzzle Maker 2.0.1 (Nov 17, 2012)
- fixes save issue in Mountain Lion
- design puzzles by hand or build them automatically
- completely new and improved puzzle generating algorithm
- add a background image to a puzzle
- export to iBooks Author and .puz.
- improved web export
- control direction of word placements in word search
- upload web puzzles to mywordpuzzles.com
New in Puzzle Maker 2.0 Build 2012 (Nov 6, 2012)
- design puzzles by hand or build them automatically
- completely new and improved puzzle generating algorithm
- Use clues in word searches
- Better support for non-Latin alphabet languages, such as Hebrew (right-to-left)
- add a background image to a puzzle (with drag and drop)
- export to iBooks Author and .puz.
- improved web export
- control direction of word placements in word search
- upload web puzzles to mywordpuzzles.com
New in Puzzle Maker 1.1.6 Build 1160 (Mar 14, 2012)
- fixed problems with the word search generator (improved the check for naughty words to eliminate the problem of too many Q's and J's sometimes)
- general bug fixes
- this is the last release of Puzzle Maker 1. Puzzle Maker 2 due out in the summe
New in Puzzle Maker 1.1.5 (Oct 19, 2011)
- Import csv improvements & fixes
- Improvements to web export:
- support for non-Latin alphabet input for crossword
- iPad support improvements:use the iPad's native keyboard
- customize text on button controls
- bug fixes
- Versions 1.1.4 are 1.1.5 identical except 1.1.5 includes 32 bit support for early Intel Macs.
New in Puzzle Maker 1.1.4 Build 1140 (Oct 13, 2011)
- Import csv improvements & fixes
- Improvements to web export:
- support for non-Latin alphabet input for crossword
- iPad support improvements:use the iPad's native keyboard
- customize text on button controls
- bug fixes
New in Puzzle Maker 1.1.2 Build 1122 (Aug 18, 2011)
- Web export is now iPad compatible, along with other web export improvements.
- Added ability to import .csv files with format "word", "clue".
- No duplicate grids in puzzle preview
- Fixes crash when saving unsaved puzzle on open/new
- Crossword algorithm fixes
- Other miscellaneous improvements
New in Puzzle Maker 1.0.3 (Apr 28, 2011)