One of my favorite new features in Nisus Writer Pro 3 is the Go To Content command. Whenever I’m writing a reasonably complex document I often want to jump around it, to consult material from other sections or simply work on different parts of the text. Nisus Writer has a Navigator sidebar that can aid […]
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Jump Around Quickly While Writing
January 15th, 2021 · No Comments
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Big Sur and Apple Silicon Updates Coming Soon
November 13th, 2020 · No Comments
This week Apple released macOS Big Sur. If you’re a Nisus customer you may want to hold off on updating your system, as we’re aware of some issues. Most of the problems are minor, but one potentially significant issue is that Nisus Writer Pro may be unable to import and export certain document file formats– […]
Nisus Writer Beta Testers Wanted
October 9th, 2020 · No Comments
Do you enjoy using new features before everyone else? Do you like sharing your ideas and feedback? If you’re an existing Nisus Writer Pro user and interested in helping out, please sign up to become a Nisus Writer beta tester. We’d love for you to join us!
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Nisus Writer’s Improved Document Versioning
September 25th, 2020 · No Comments
Nisus Writer adopts macOS autosave, which means copies of your document are automatically and periodically saved while you’re editing. The system preserves earlier autosaved copies so you can restore prior document versions. These prior versions aren’t kept forever (only Apple might say how long), but they’re incredibly useful if you realize you made a mistake […]
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Call For Localizers
August 28th, 2020 · No Comments
Nisus Writer Pro 3.1 (and Nisus Writer Express 4.1) were just released and added several non-English localizations. We are interested in adding additional translations, so more people can enjoy using Nisus Writer in their native language. If you might be interested in helping out, please let us know. You can contact us any way you […]
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Stepper Buttons in Nisus Writer
July 31st, 2020 · No Comments
Even if you’re not familiar with the term, you almost certainly know how to use steppers. They are those little up and down arrow buttons you see next to numeric controls on your Mac. For example, you’ll see steppers next to the paragraph spacing controls in Nisus Writer: As you probably already know (or can […]
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How to Change the Font Size of Comments
July 24th, 2020 · No Comments
Nisus Writer Pro users often write in and ask us how they can increase the font size of comments in their document. The good news is that it’s easy to change the font size (and other formatting) of all comments in your document en-masse. Whenever you add a comment to a document, Nisus Writer Pro […]
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App Store reviews and an odd request
June 12th, 2020 · 2 Comments
Submitting your app to Apple for sale on the Mac App Store is always a roll of the dice. You never know if your app will sail through the App Store review process in a matter of hours, or if you’ll be dealt a setback that takes you days to resolve. These days App Store […]
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Letter Case Conversions
May 28th, 2020 · No Comments
Sometimes you need to fix text with the wrong letter case. Maybe you copied text that’s all uppercase letters, but you need lowercase letters (eg: change “EXAMPLE” to “example”). Nisus Writer has two ways to help you convert such text. Character Conversions Most often you will want to do a one-shot conversion of your text […]
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Trump and Two Spaces
May 4th, 2020 · 2 Comments
I recently came across a copy of the COVID-19 economic relief explanation letter being sent out by the White House here in the United States: What was interesting to me was not the contents of this letter, but rather the spacing after each period. You can see that there are two spaces after nearly every […]
Line Wraps and the Zero-Width Joiner
April 30th, 2020 · No Comments
Sometimes the most exciting thing about an iOS update is all the new emojis. In recent history the new emojis in iOS 13.2 included several interesting characters: That last one is technically called the Ringed Planet emoji; but let’s get real, that’s Saturn. Even in emoji-form the cosmos is beautiful. These photos of Jupiter taken […]
Apple Developer Discs From Years Back
July 17th, 2013 · No Comments
Nisus has been developing for the Mac for many, many years. Over that time we’ve accumulated quite a cache of old Apple Developer discs, upon which we recently stumbled. It’s efficient and economical that everything is distributed digitally now, but I can’t help but miss old gems like this. We hope you enjoy seeing these […]
Exciting news, but PLEASE DON’T SHOUT
June 14th, 2013 · No Comments
The US Navy just switched to a new message routing system that finally allows the use of lowercase letters. That’s right, up until May 7th 2013 messages could only employ ALL CAPS, ALL THE TIME. I wonder, did they add Unicode support? Or maybe they just upgraded to the decadent luxury of full ASCII.
New Indian Rupee Currency Symbol
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments
A competition to design a new symbol for the Indian Rupee just came to a close. The new symbol is distinct from the generic rupee symbol (“Rs” / ₨, Unicode U+20A8) used by a variety of rupee currencies and is destined for inclusion in the Unicode standard. Personally I think the new symbol looks quite […]
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Another Snow Leopard Tip
September 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
This tip came from one of our engineers, Martin, who writes on this blog from time to time. In previous versions of Mac OS X a user could use “Get Info” in the Finder to control which localization(s) a particular application was launched with, eg: they could disable all but one localization to force an […]
Max Kerning
October 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A silly but funny little video for typography nerds. Looks to be a bit of viral marketing, but entertaining all the same!
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Beautiful Calligraphy
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
A neat calligraphy video filmed live and sped up. The artist’s website also has some very impressive images of “light calligraphy“.
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Mutant Gummies
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Whenever I pass through my local Cost Plus World Market, a place of wonderful things, I always take a walk through the candy aisle. Obviously we’re pocky fans around here, but I’ve always been more a gummy man myself. It might be my German heritage, but indeed Haribo macht mich froh. So upon a recent […]
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Forget the MacBook Air
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments
My favorite booth at MacWorld featured adorable penguin and dragon USB thumb drives. Apparently the company is looking for an American distributor, so hopefully we can all have cute USB buddies helping us move our files around soon.
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Nisus Writer Pro Macros
May 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Now that the Nisus Writer Pro public beta is out those users interested in exploring our macro enhancements can do so. However, we thought that we should let those users know that there will be additional macro commands available by the time we release. Probably the most needed of these extra commands are those that […]
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