Nisus Writer Pro 3.0.1 Release Notes

This is a minor update to fix several important issues.

Highlighted Changes

• Editing the New File preferences could trigger crashes.
• Export to DOC or DOCX would:
  • incorrectly enforce page breaks before every paragraph.
  • incorrectly apply the options "keep with next paragraph" and "keep paragraph together" to most text.
• Fixed issues with Full Screen mode:
  • Full Screen settings should not be restored when reopening a file no longer in Full Screen mode.
  • Editing text in Full Screen can trigger large white rectangles to flash on screen.
  • Scrollbars can incorrectly remain visible after exiting Full Screen, even when set to automatically hide.
  • Adjusting the Full Screen gutter width slider did not trigger immediate updates.
  • Toolbar items could incorrectly disable all their contextual menus in Full Screen.
• Fixed performance regression where files with many tables are slower to save and otherwise interact with.
• Spellchecking can incorrectly mark all words as misspelled after opening the Language preferences.
• Floating text boxes often don't immediately show newly added text.
• HTML export should produce stable intra-document link URLs for TOCs, cross-references, etc

Other Changes

• Fixed some issues related to language preferences:
  • The option to change the runtime localization (for menus etc) should be disabled. All non‑English translations haven’t yet been updated for version 3.0.
  • The language preference to "Switch to last used font" did not always work correctly.
  • Old language customization files could incorrectly revert language settings every time the app is launched.
  • Adjusting language preferences and then immediately quitting the app could fail to save the new settings.
  • Removed vestiges of the outdated Portuguese localization, which triggered crashes at launch if activated.
• App activation could incorrectly create an Untitled window, even if an existing document was already open.
  • Also should not restore empty Untitled documents when relaunching the app.
• Section endnotes are not always visible in Page View.
• Inserting an endnote in Page View doesn't always scroll it into view.
• Print paper scaling no longer works correctly.
• Possible crash when the undo history involves footnotes and tracked changes.
• Annotation split view (for comments or tracked changes) could incorrectly autoscroll the main document view, or sub-optimally force typesetting for all annotations.
• A ruler tab stop should not be ignored if it's exactly coincident with the hanging indent.
• Pressing the End key should force text layout and scroll to the very end of the document.
• Insert Cross-Reference dialog settings should be preserved between uses, eg: window size.
• Cross-References that show numbering fail to update if the target bookmark is enclosed in an annotation.
• The Paragraph palette can incorrectly report the option to "Break Before ¶".
• Hyperlinks in table cells inside headers/footers are incorrectly exported to PDF.
• The contextual and services menus could be slow to open.
• Pleading Page mode should extend the double vertical line to the edge of the header/footer.
• Showing the Navigator sidebar should default to a mode (TOC or Bookmarks) with items actually available.
• The Highlight color menus were incorrectly disabled in the Find panel.
• Selecting a table inside a comment split view can result in improper automatic scrolling.
• Documents that are never shown on screen could cause crashes or memory leaks.
• Footnotes in Page View could sporadically trigger improper ruler updates. Using the tab editing dialog could also cause crashes if background layout was underway.
• Showing a Find Results List window on macOS 10.11 can crash.
• Several random Page View crashes related to pagination, footnotes, or other certain layout situations.
• Undoing the deletion of a newline with tracked changes doesn't correctly restore the prior paragraph style
• The Save panel should default to the Macros folder for documents created using the New Macro menu.
• Fixed possible random crash in background text stats calculation due to out-of-bounds array index.
• Prevent possible hang during menu validation, if the command Edit > Repeat itself triggers a validation loop.
• Added more language flag icons.
• Text color and highlight menus for standard colors (eg: Red) should be exactly the same as version 2.
• Attempt to prevent crashes related to improper memory management when saving files.
• Opt: saving RTF preallocates a memory buffer as large as the last time the file was saved, to try to prevent unnecessary reallocation.
• Opt: disable background layout while saving files.
• Control clicking a Split View divider bar should show the contextual menu.
• Dragging text in Page View doesn't always autoscroll.
• Formatting Examiner palette should show glyph variants.
• The Dropper toolbar item should copy the language.
• Palette windows that have been incorrectly positioned out of view offscreen should be forced into view.
• Insert Link has a default link showing "https" instead of "http".
• Opt: macros: should try to match menu paths in macros as full paths first, even if they lack a root path prefix.
• Synchronized scrolling fails to enter target selection mode when using a keyboard shortcut.
• Background calculation of text statistics could cause hang.
• Should be able to define Command + Enter as a keyboard shortcut.
• Prevent nil object exceptions if a document is invalidated before its toolbar loaded.
• Should be able to paste text if a footnote or endnote is entirely selected, including its terminal newline.
• Shapes anchored to hidden headers and footers should not be drawn.
• RTF files saved by LibreOffice should be treated as such during file loading to improve compatibility.
• The macro Text object commands "listItemAtIndex" and "listItemInParagraphAtIndex" did not correctly accept a 2nd optional Range argument.