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Nisus Writer Express 3.2 |
Nisus Writer Express Easy to use, affordable writing and editing tool
System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later |
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| Company |
Nisus Software Inc |
| Version |
3.2 |
| Post Date |
June 13, 2009 |
| License |
Trial |
| File Size |
59.3 MB |
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Nisus Writer Express 3.2
Easy to use, affordable writing and editing tool Nisus Writer Express is a writing and editing tool that is engineered lean, focused, and fast at a price even a student can afford. Nisus Writer Express exploits OS X to the full, and it will continue to grow with the power of Mac OS X. Main features of Nisus Writer Express:
Floating graphics (Text Wrap around images)
Glossaries
Widow and Orphan Control
RTF, MS Word (97-2004), WordPerfect (read only), and Plain Text Support
Small Caps support
Improved Find and Replace engine
Right To Left Input
Bullets and Numbering
Insert Hyperlink
Built-in Tables
User-defined styles
Footnotes
Document endnotes
Section endnotes
Full Screen editing mode
Customizable multi-key keyboard shortcuts
LinkBack support
Nisus New File
WYSIWYG font menu
Leader tabs
Smart Quotes
Convert Smart Quotes to Plain Quotes (and vice versa)
Highlighter
Smart insert and delete
Save as PDF
Spotlight aware - no plug-in necessary
Hyphenation
Rectangular selection.
Shows double space characters with show invisibles.
Templates
Open any file as a template.
Supports Microsoft Word document templates (DOT files).
Correct Spelling (Cmd-Opt-;).
Expanded Underline and Strikethrough Styles.
Single, Double, Dotted, Dashed, Heavy.
Underline by word.
Bold and Italicize any font.
Silent Font Substitution.
Autocomplete.
Same Page Section Breaks.
Column Balancing.
Superscript Ordinals.
Inheritable Character, Paragraph, and Note Styles.
Language-sensitive typo fixing.
Limitations of Nisus Writer Express:
15 days trial.
What's New in This Release:
New Features:
Added: additional backup options to keep last saved copy of file and/or keep copy in alternate location.
Added: can edit "document properties" (author, company, etc).
Added: services menu allows creating a Nisus Writer document from selection in another application (Note: may require user to logout after updating before option is available).
Added: image: if a floating graphic is selected then we show a moveable anchor point.
Added: preference to choose the default file format.
Added: users can control which Smart Quote profile is active for each language. One option is "Guillemets with Spaces".
Notable Changes:
Fixed: on Leopard text can improperly overdraw, either on top of properly placed text or in the whitespace of the page. Sometimes text would also not appear on screen when needed.
Changed: better RTF interchange with Word of text that makes use of non-Roman encodings.
Fixed: files with a default font set to bold/italics could incorrectly bleed bold/italics into ancillary document parts (eg: headers).
Fixed: lists: we can read in Apple's proprietary/broken list styles from RTF (eg: as saved/pasted by TextEdit/Safari).
Fixed: redefining a style from the selection does not properly take into account attributes already used by the style being redefined.
Fixed: glossary: normal characters can incorrectly count as expansion triggers, eg: the entry that expands "d" to "dxxx" can be triggered by "dz ".
Fixed: VoiceOver does not alert users that word is misspelled (Leopard feature only), or that a menu has been activated via a keyboard shortcut.
Table Changes:
Fixed: tables: sorting table cells should preserve row integrity (row content should not be split up).
Fixed: tables: Convert to Table doesn't split list bullets (or other integral smart content).
Fixed: tables: making multi-page table selections could be thwarted by improper autoscrolling.
Opt: tables: table views can incorrectly decide to draw all table cells.
Fixed: tables: we read in RTF table widths that are specified in percentages.
Fixed: tables: opening documents in Draft View (or switching to that view) with a selection in a table does not always properly scroll the selection into view.
Fixed: tables: can incorrectly (and indefeasibly) apply the foreground color when simplifying clicking into another cell.
Fixed: tables: changing the color does not force clear cells to use foreground/background shader if the current cell selection includes multiple shader types.
Fixed: tables: "fit to page" works better for tables that appear in multi-column documents.
Fixed: tables: Draft view selection in a table cell is not always scrolled into view when required (eg: document re-open).
Fixed: tables: text in table cell can overdraw on other cells if table spans multiple pages and placeholder editor shifts pages when applying formatting change to entire table.
Fixed: tables: line height multiples applied to table cells can't stall layout.
Changed: tables: better recovery when handling tables with invalid spanning structures.
Fixed: tables: adding rows/columns to a single cell tables doesn't result in misbehaving selections.
Footnote/Endnote Changes:
Added: notes: the custom note reference menus are now available on the main menu, in addition to the note style tag.
Fixed: notes: deleting a section break can delete the content of endnotes placed at the end of the section.
Fixed: notes: Endnotes/Section notes did not remember page/section restart interval if file reopened.
Fixed: notes: pasting in notes will never introduce more than two notes styles in a document, eg: an existing note style will always be chosen for the incoming content.
Fixed: notes: copy-pasting notes using regular character/paragraph styles will strip the styles and leave formatting overrides equivalent to the styles in their place.
Fixed: notes: copying content as text only will use proper note reference number formatter.
Fixed: notes: selection in footnote/endnote should be restored after switching back from making changes in stylesheet view.
Fixed: notes: certain note reordering sequences can trigger a crash or cause unwanted scrolling (Leopard).
Fixed: notes: setting a custom note reference to the empty string can cause a crash.
Fixed: notes: tooltip should omit default note text if possible, eg: for the note "2. note" don't show ". ".
Find and Replace Changes:
Fixed: find: content inside tables that are inside headers/footers would not be matched during a Find/Replace All.
Opt: find: doing a Find All limited to the current selection can be much faster if there are many discontiguous selections.
Fixed: find: matches found in headers/footers could incorrectly count more than once. This could cause crashed when using Replace All, since attempts would be made to replace the same content twice.
Fixed: find: PowerFind Browser does not select proper cell in browser when user attempts to insert bubbles that require more input (eg: Repeat N-M).
Image Changes:
Fixed: images: GIF images aren't converted to TIFFs when saved in RTF files.
Fixed: images: copy-paste of content with floating images could improperly multiply the image.
Fixed: images: floating images that are on pages separate from their anchor will be visible and respond to mouse clicks.
Fixed: images: images with a non-zero baseline are cut off when using a fixed line height.
Fixed: images: floating images should be constrained to page size, not text container size.
Changed: images: graphic files inserted into RTF files store their original file names (eg: in case the file is converted to RTFD).
Opt: image size comparisons should not be completely exact, prevents caching display image for minor/rounding variances.
Changed: images: somewhat better behavior when moving a floating image around on a page where the anchor point can sometimes fit and sometimes must be pushed to the next page.
Fixed: image: section palettes are improperly disabled when a floating image is selected.
Other Changes:
Added: can change background color of navigator pane.
Added: pressing the Enter/Return key in a palette text field will return focus to the main document selection.
Added: invisible mark for "zero width (non) joiner", "zero width space", and "word joiner".
Added: print: the options for "print page guides" and "print invisibles" are separate.
Added: doc man: holding the Option key when double-clicking a file in the Document Manager closes the document manager window.
Added: lang: Amharic and Occitan languages to standard language set.
Added: styles: style creation menus appear in the Format menu.
Added: styles: can make "semi-hidden" styles completely visible in the stylesheet view.
Added: page setup menu prompts a user if not all sections in the document would be affected by the change.
Changed: "show invisibles" for text directionality characters no longer dependent on Arial font.
Changed: added "Export As" menu and moved all lossy file formats (eg: HTML) there.
Changed: altering paper settings for a section that has adjacent sections with non-page-breaks will affect those sections as well.
Changed: converted files default to be saved to the same directory as the original with a modified name.
Changed: default font in Nisus New File is "Times" not "Times New Roman". Changed because 10.5.5 has an issue rendering italic Times New Roman to PDF.
Changed: doc man: document manager deletion prompts did not have clear buttons/text.
Changed: doc man: files with no title default to "untitled" instead of "none".
Changed: dock menu items (eg: new document) should activate Nisus Writer.
Changed: faked superscript/subscript baseline and sizing changes have been tuned so that "multiple" line spacing is disrupted less (some popular fonts no longer have any line height disruption).
Changed: feeback: if the problem document is a converted file then defaults to the original copy.
Changed: if Arabic text is marked as italic, but the font does not have an italic face, the faked italics slant to the left.
Changed: inserting a hyperlink with an email address on the clipboard will default to using the "mailto" protocol / URL scheme.
Changed: inserting a page/section break at the end of a paragraph triggers the "next style" change. Inserting a break before a paragraph will switch the style to normal if the created paragraph is empty and preceded by a paragraph in the Normal style.
Changed: lists: when displaying a list number that includes numbers from prior items (eg: tiered style) if an enclosing list number is missing we no longer display "0" but the starting number.
Changed: menus are no longer rebuilt in response to application quit; attempt to prevents crash on quit.
Changed: notes: the default note text (". ") now uses a non-breaking space, in case notes are all kept on the same line.
Changed: page borders palette uses "pt" as unit, not "pts".
Changed: saving a converted file doesn't append "(converted)" to the default save file name.
Changed: some additional Unicode directionality characters (U+202A and U+202B) show an invisible mark.
Changed: spell: can use the "learn word" or "ignore word" spelling menus if the selection is just a caret.
Changed: starting a drag does not scroll selection into view.
Changed: the insert hyperlink sheet is resizable (English localization only).
Changed: tightened up leader tab padding (between kissing characters).
Changed: we read/write font typeface classes from RTF files, allows for better font substitution when original is unknown.
Changed: we use Sparkle to manage application updates.
Changed: Word allows whitespace in hex escaped binary data blobs in RTF files (eg: for images). We do the same now, instead of discarding the image.
Fixed: lang: if the natural writing direction was effectively right-to-left this would not be read by other applications (eg: Word, OpenOffice, etc).
Fixed: lang: inserting a directionality marker from the menu did not apply typing attributes, which could incorrectly switch the language, font, keyboard, etc.
Fixed: "about box" is not key/main window when shown.
Fixed: altering available fonts when Nisus Writer is running on Leopard can do weird things.
Fixed: applying multiple font typography features (eg: rare ligatures, old style figures, etc) could cause previously applied features to be lost.
Fixed: Arabic (abjad) numbering now uses initial form of "ha" (U+FEEB) for standalone representation of the value 5.
Fixed: automatically generated file save name is made unique for the initial save dialog directory.
Fixed: autosave: certain conditions ("Nisus Documents" folder could not be created or no automatic file name) could prevent autosave from working and the user would not be notified.
Fixed: can indent/outdent last/first list level in stylesheet using menu/shortcut.
Fixed: can open image files directly via Open panel or drag-drop (including PDFs).
Fixed: can't adjust baseline on text that required faked superscript/subscript.
Fixed: can't print documents that use more than a single paper orientation (fixed for Leopard only).
Fixed: classic: some kinds of smart content (eg: doc stamps) in headers/footers never read.
Fixed: classic: we preserve original file creation time in meta data.
Fixed: clicking in horizontal scrollbar "page scroll area" incorrectly scrolls vertically by a page.
Fixed: composed character sequences with different fonts applied to constituents could prevent a file from opening.
Fixed: converted documents don't change name/title when saved.
Fixed: deleting/inserting line breaks on the last line of a page may leave behind stale display.
Fixed: doc man: attempt to get Option key modifier to close the document manager window in all cases.
Fixed: doc man: sometimes incorrectly prevents document deletion, claiming the document is open when it's not.
Fixed: document view appearance/view changes (eg: show invisibles) don't always take effect in Full Screen view immediately after activated.
Fixed: entering non-numerical value in the "zoom other" sheet won't zoom to tiny zoom.
Fixed: expanding the selection using the keyboard to include a break character would scroll to the wrong page.
Fixed: feedback: could crash when selecting a file if the open panel returned an empty array.
Fixed: field switches could be lost if default font for document specified an encoding that used different value for backslash characters (eg: Hiragino Mincho). Caused Japanese version to lose cross-reference information on file reopen.
Fixed: first click on the file in the Open panel that was last opened doesn't properly reset accessory options (eg: encoding, as new file, etc).
Fixed: floating images can improperly duplicate if anchored to a paragraph with any RTF field (eg: hyperlink) or comment.
Fixed: formatting changes that affected empty storages (eg: empty table cell) are not reversed on undo.
Fixed: fractional font sizes were lost when file reopened if the fraction was not half a point.
Fixed: glossary and QuickFix expansion for some non-Latin languages (eg: Japanese) scanned too far backward (extent of language attribute instead of stopping at break characters).
Fixed: glossary: the QuickFix preferences could be out-of-date if glossary files added/removed behind its back.
Fixed: if a binary ".doc" file improperly has a ".rtf" file extension we should detect that and convert as needed.
Fixed: if a font has proper typography features for superscripts/subscripts then we make use of them.
Fixed: if a list bullet for a paragraph was forced to off then copy-pasting content from that paragraph could be truncated.
Fixed: if no font specified directly by user or by applied styles, then the font menu/palette would not always show the proper fallback font.
Fixed: index: bold/italic can bleed into topic entries on file reopen.
Fixed: index: cannot mark text for index inclusion using an empty topic or cross-reference.
Fixed: index: indexing from a word list can incorrectly clip the last character of the last index topic.
Fixed: inserting a table using the table-size-grid popup window can result in document dependent menus (eg: style menus) being incorrectly cleared.
Fixed: keyboard shortcuts/bindings that insert newlines/breaks do not work on Leopard.
Fixed: lang: disabling spell check for a language whose default dictionary is not disabled will be lost on application restart.
Fixed: lang: word/paragraph break detection for languages without a supported break locator fallback to using the English Unicode break locator, instead of our own very poor rule set.
Fixed: language palette does not update learn/forget button as entry edited.
Fixed: line break invisibles (eg: newlines) in otherwise empty RTL paragraphs aren't shown.
Fixed: list style option controls could be clipped in stylesheet view.
Fixed: lists: case where using menu "Continue Numbering From Previous" could incorrectly use very large or negative numbers.
Fixed: lists: copy-pasting content with a paragraph style that has a "none" list style override set will lose that style override.
Fixed: lists: list style levels, when selected in the stylesheet, do not properly update/enable attribute removal widgets (eg: can't use "Remove Font Attribute" menu).
Fixed: lists: numbering that restarts due to breaks in list content can open incorrectly in Word as continuing across content.
Fixed: macros: the "Swap Columns" and "Add/Remove Blank Lines" macros did not function.
Fixed: menu shortcuts that have been removed using Apple's global preferences should not show up in Nisus Writer with the multi-key shortcut "NIL".
Fixed: messages sent to the text input panel that are too tall to fit on screen are truncated as needed.
Fixed: new document window does not obscure licensing panel on startup.
Fixed: new document windows did not always properly stagger.
Fixed: old bug in Express where incorrect code page is emitted in our RTF, preventing Pro from reading the text correctly. We now compensate for the bug.
Fixed: on Leopard can crash if deleting line-break character from very end of document causes otherwise empty page to be removed.
Fixed: operations that require saving/restoring the scroll location (eg: hide/show navigator) drift less if vertical text density is nonuniform.
Fixed: palettes: if color panel is shown by clicking a color well in the palettes, then switching active documents incorrectly keeps the wheel linked to the prior document.
Fixed: palettes: if color panel is shown by clicking a color well in the palettes, then switching palette groups renders the color wheel inoperable.
Fixed: pasting content that intrinsically has no formatting attributes (eg: images, web links) should absorb the attributes of the surrounding text.
Fixed: plain text files saved with "Shift JIS" encoding were incorrectly saved using Windows Japanese (CP-932).
Fixed: print: having Nisus Writer correct page margins so they fit in the printable area marks the document dirty; is also undoable.
Fixed: print: should not change scroll location.
Fixed: print: the "should fix margins" prompt has an option to cancel the print.
Fixed: quickfix: apostrophes can again trigger QuickFix expansions, so long as they are followed by non-letter characters (eg: punctuation, whitespace, etc).
Fixed: reopening a file that is already open as a converted document doesn't open up a second "untitled" window.
Fixed: resize hotspots for floating images don't change cursor icon.
Fixed: RTF files using negative values for margins do not open incorrectly.
Fixed: ruler: if horizontal zooming is required, then zero point on ruler for right-to-left text is not correct.
Fixed: ruler: leader tabs do not draw in proper location for right-to-left text.
Fixed: ruler: marker snapping location is not always correct.
Fixed: ruler: tab locations in modal ruler editing sheet are wrong for right-to-left text.
Fixed: scroll location restored after showing comment/navigator in Draft view was not always accurate.
Fixed: sections with same-page section breaks always use paper settings from prior section.
Fixed: selection caret at end of storage (eg: end of table cell, header, etc) is not saved with document.
Fixed: some automatic numbers (those using attachments, eg: page numbers) did not always preserve their attributes on file reopen.
Fixed: some window commands (eg: "Last Window") should be disabled if there are less than two open windows.
Fixed: sometimes empty/blue document windows could be created if attempting to make a new document while other documents were being opened.
Fixed: sometimes new files could incorrectly default to saving as plain text.
Fixed: spell: learn/forget/ignore of a word should recheck the entire document, not just the active text area.
Fixed: spell: parts of an email address can sometimes be incorrectly marked as misspelled.
Fixed: style: copy-pasting a style between documents does not discard TOC/indexing attributes defined by the style.
Fixed: styles: (semi) hidden styles should not appear in the styles palette.
Fixed: styles: case where the style conflict dialog could be presented when copy-pasting content within a single document.
Fixed: styles: pasting content with tables/notes that had style conflicts would not always use the properly chosen resolution mode (eg: use destination styles, rename incoming styles).
Fixed: styles: stylesheet view should take into account paper size zoom.
Fixed: styles: unbold/unitalic style attributes did not always remove bold/italic if attribute was inherited from grandparent or further.
Fixed: stylesheet backdrop color uses page view backdrop color.
Fixed: switching to stylesheet view puts keyboard focus to navigator pane (style list).
Fixed: system font panel can't set font size to 12pt in document.
Fixed: tab stops could be incorrectly culled when reading files whose ruler's head indent was not a multiple of the auto indent.
Fixed: template documents do not always open up as "untitled".
Fixed: the "Convert to Unicode Code Point" menu does not add superfluous spaces after code points with surrogate pairs.
Fixed: the "unbold" and "unitalic" overrides as part of a style definitions could be lost when file reopened.
Fixed: the following did not work for section breaks, but now does: inserting a page/section break at the end of a paragraph triggers the "next style" change. Inserting a break before a paragraph will switch the style to normal if the created paragraph is empty and preceded by a paragraph in the Normal style.
Fixed: the invisible mark and leader for a tab character that occurs at the very end of a line would not be drawn if the tab stop was beyond the margin.
Fixed: the menubar does not autoshow in Full Screen View if the mouse is outside of the text view (eg: does not show if mouse in the gutters).
Fixed: the ruler tag should not be shown if the only paragraph formatting applied comes from a style.
Fixed: the very first click on a color well incorrectly triggered its action.
Fixed: using the "Revert" menu would leave the document in a state where any changes to styles would not register an undo event.
Fixed: we emit both the "deff" and "f" RTF controls for the default font, for applications that don't understand "deff".
Fixed: zooming really far in/out triggers internal error.
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