Storyist 1.4 incorporates many user-requested features, including a new formatting inspector window, the ability to read and write additional formats, enhancements to import and export functions, and new text tools.

Highlights of the release include:

• The Inspector: A new floating Inspector window offers quick access to text, style, and document formatting properties.
• New File Formats: Storyist now provides converters for the Microsoft Word .docx and Open Office .odt file formats (Leopard only) and the Final Draft .fcf format, in addition to the previously supported RTF, HTML, DOC, and Text Only formats.
• Text Processing Tools: New text processing tools help automate tedious search and replace operations like converting to and from smart quotes, changing italics to underlining and back, and reformatting text.
• Automator Support: The import and export assistants as well as the new text processing tools are now integrated with Apple’s Automator technology. Writers can use the Storyist text tools in Automator workflows, and use Automator to create workflows for use in Storyist.
• Enhanced RTF Converter: The RTF converter now imports and exports headers, footers, margins, date fields, keep with next, and widow and orphan control settings, and offers improved Unicode support for compatibility with other programs.
• Word Processing Enhancements: The word processor now supports widow and orphan control and can import style sheets from other documents.
• Developer API: Based on Apple’s Automator Action API, the new plug-in API allows developers to extend the Tools menu and provide additional format converters and workflow components.

Version 1.3 offers an enhanced storyboard with support for index cards and photos.

• A screenplay template with styles for standard screenplay elements.
• Tab and Return key shortcuts to make changing between standard screenplay or novel elements as simple as typing a key or two.
• Smart text processing (screenplay formatting only) to collect your scene introductions, locations, times, character names, and transitions and auto-complete them for you when you need them.
• A Backup Assistant to make it easy to backup and restore your work.
• The ability to view and edit page margins and specify mirrored pages. Improved header and footer support, including the ability to specify different headers for left and right pages.
• Many other performance and stability improvements.

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