Yup, Storyblue 1.2 has been released. Now exports to RTF and sports a more streamlined toolbar.

I tried to simplify the text editing toolbar a bit in this release; In fiction projects, I don’t see a need for coloring text, or bullets, or alignment. I’ve removed those features for the time being. I’ve also simplified the text sizing to be one of 3 options (small, medium, large), and apply to the whole text area (vs. the selected text). I don’t want to have any useless features, and these seem extraneous to the business of writing novels. I’m looking at font selection as well, but for now that’s still there and functioning the same. Bold/italic/underline are still there as well.

Let me know if you see any problems, either with RTF export or with the new toolbar. Do you have any thoughts about the toolbar changes? Let me know — taylor@manythingsblue.com.

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Oh so quickly, this release: In short, copy/paste Mac? Not actually fixed in 1.1.3. In long? I hope this is the end, and whyohwhy Adobe AIR do you not have something which handles this automatically, as much as you imply you have such?

Anyway, back to work! :)

Huzzah! Just released Storyblue v1.1.3 with the following awesome features:

• Auto-save! Now Storyblue will auto-save your story by default every 5 minutes. You can turn this off under the (new) Edit menu >> Auto-save.
• Copy/paste on Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6! One of these strange & annoying bugs, copy/paste stopped working on newer Macs. Why, we may never know, but now there is a fancy new Edit menu with all your favorite copy/paste/select commands right there at your fingertips. Let me know, new-Mac-users, if this still doesn’t work. My Mac is old, so I rely on friendly external testers.
• Undo! You can now Undo stuff, just like you should be able to. Well, mostly — undoing styles in the Writing editor is quirky. Better than nothing, I say!
• Interface! I always mess with the interface, so here’s some more. Tried to tighten it up, get into more of a column feel than a row feel. I like it better.

That’s all, folks. You can install the new version from http://storyblue.com/download.shtml. Let me know if you see any errors or problems!

(Sorry for the release delay, too — consulting gigs are taking up quite a bit of time. Look for more, meatier updates on the horizon!)

I’ve (hopefully) fixed the auto-updater, which doesn’t seem to work for most people. Of course, that being the case, you won’t be able to auto-update to this version. ::frown::

You can instead download it from here: http://storyblue.com/download.shtml

I fixed it by taking it out, and replacing it with something that checks to see if there’s a new version, then simply directs you to the download page, instead of trying to auto-magically install the new over top of your old version. This also, actually, removes the strange behavior wherein the updater would just shut down the app with no warning before updating. Hurrah for slaying multiple birds with a single stone!

Let me know if you see any issues!