Snow Leopard Compatible Releases

8/28/2009Posted inNisus Thesaurus, Nisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer ProNo Comments

When Apple announced on 24 August that Snow Leopard would be available on the 28th, we were as surprised as you were. Remember, Apple had said previously that Snow Leopard would be available in September. To most in the developer community, that meant late September.

Boy, were we wrong.

Since 10.6 has now out in the wild, we are happy to announce the release of beta versions of Nisus Writer Pro 1.3.1 and Nisus Writer Express 3.3.1.

Nisus Writer Pro 1.3.1 contains no new features, but includes fixes since Pro 1.3 was released, and the aforementioned Snow Leopard fixes. The release notes for Pro 1.3.1 can be found on the Pro 1.3.1 download page.

Nisus Writer Express 3.3.1 is a feature release. The new features include an all new document manager, a style library, the ability to attach the active document to a new email message (in Mail.app and Entourage only), a selection history (allowing users to jump to prior editing locations), an option to automatically capitalize the first word of each sentence during typing (this is disabled by default).

There are also many, many fixes (including the fixes for 10.6), all of which can be read about on the Express 3.3.1 release notes page.

Both applications are Universal Binaries and require at least Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Please remember that these are beta versions, and not available for purchase. We will send out an announcement when we release the final versions of both applications.

Snow Leopard Update

8/25/2009Posted inNisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer Pro1 Comment

Apple has announced that Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) will be released this coming Friday, 28 August. That’s earlier than what they had been promising, which was September. While this is good for consumers, I have a feeling that some developers are doing a bit of scrambling at the moment to get their applications ready for release on or near the big day.

The good news from our perspective is that both Express 3.x and Pro are, for the most part, compatible with Snow Leopard. But, there are a couple of bugs that need to be fixed. So, all of this rambling text means that we will be releasing beta versions of both applications at some point this week.

We will post more information when the apps are released.

Fourth of July Sale

7/3/2009Posted inNisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer ProNo Comments

To celebrate the release of Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 and take advantage of the Fourth of July holiday here is the USA, we are having a sale on Pro.

From now until 6 July, you can now purchase Pro for 20 percent off the regular price. Just go to our store, choose your version of Pro, and enter the coupon code “fourthofjuly” in the coupon text box. You will then see the discount reflected in the shopping cart.

So if you wanted to purchase the upgrade, or Family Pack, or if you would like to purchase a copy for someone else, now is the time.

Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 Released

7/1/2009Posted inNisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer Pro2 Comments

After many months of adding, fixing, and tearing out of hair, Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 is now available.

The big feature addition in this release is the new document manager. It now can manage any file on your drive, regardless of its location. You can create file groups, or use the predefined smart groups. There is also a style library, and an advanced search that uses Apple’s Spotlight technology.

Other features include a selection history (allowing users to jump to prior editing locations), an option to automatically capitalize the first word of each sentence during typing, the ability to attach the active document to a new email message (in Mail.app and Entourage only), and you can now turn any menu into a toolbar item.

We also added character/word/paragraph count as an automatic number, menus to invert the selection, select all document areas, expand the selection to full word/sentence/paragraph. A preference allows language switches to affect font size. Triple click selects a sentence and quadruple click selects a paragraph. There were many additions to the Nisus Macro Language

There were over 300 fixes and changes in this release, and you can read about them at our Pro release notes page.

This release is a free update to current license holders of Nisus Writer Pro.

You can download this release from here.

So download, give it a spin, and enjoy!

Nisus Writer Pro 1.2

11/6/2008Posted inNisus Writer Pro1 Comment

Nisus Writer Pro 1.2 is now available for your downloading pleasure. This new version adds a few new features, many bug fixes and other fun stuff.

The biggest change is in our file importer. We have replaced the old importer with a completely new one that greatly improves file translations, especially for .doc files. Additionally, we have added export as Word file format (.doc) and the Open Document (.odt) format.

The Table of Contents feature has a few new options: tab/backtab can be used to promote or demote TOC levels, and TOC entries can be rearranged by drag and drop within the navigator pane.

We also added Flesch and Kincaid reading ease scores, automatically updating time stamps, additional backup options, and a Macroize menu. Document properties (author, company, copyright, etc.) can now be edited and inserted as variables.

One feature that I am happy to see is the addition of the Sparkle framework to handle our updates. This will hopefully make updating within Pro much less painful.

There have also been many additions to the Nisus Macro Language. Finally, a host of bug fixes and other enhancements have also been included.

The full list of features and fixes can be read at our Pro release notes page. You can download this latest version from the Pro download page.

This release is a free update to current license holders of Nisus Writer Pro.

Happy downloading!

“Hey Baby, It’s The 4th of July”

7/4/2008Posted inNisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer ProNo Comments

The title of this post comes from a song by The Blasters, later covered by X. Yes, I did listen to music in the 80s, as a matter of fact.

Anyway, it is the Fourth of July here in the States, so that means fireworks, marching bands, too much food, and in this case, a long weekend.

This means that we are taking a bit of time off. We won’t be around until Monday, 7 July. In the meantime, if you need support, please visit our forum or you can write to one of the mailing lists.

You can purchase as normal from the store, and orders will ship on the 7th.

To those here in the USA, have a happy, safe holiday!