DramaQueen 1.6 – Update-Report

This update contains four new features as well as multiple
improvements and bug-fixes:

NEW FEATURES

• New global replace features: It’s possible to
  replace all occurences in the document. Furthermore there are specific
  options to replace character names and locations. The search area of
  the Texts panel has been extended for replacing.
• It is now possible to display scene headings in the
  treatment (see the gear menu of the treatment). This makes
  it possible to create scriptments.
• The synopsis and treatment may now be formatted as
  standard pages. This layout fits exactly 30 lines with
  60 characters on a page.
• The new words counter gives detailed text statistics for the
  synopsis, treatment and script (via main menu ‘file’ or the menu in the
  Texts panel).

IMPROVEMENTS

• Strong performance improvements for editing and
  navigating long texts.
• DramaQueen documents are now stored compressed. This not only saves
  a lot of space, but also avoids problems sending documents via
  e-mail, in case the email software used an incompatible text
  encoding.
• The text levels no longer share the same title page, it may have
  different content per level now. If text is to be transferred when
  activating a text level, the title page will be transferred along. When
  displaying the title page in a text level for the first time, there will
  be an offer to copy it from another layer.
• In the Characters panel, there is now a field for
  alias names of a character. When replacing a character
  name, all alias names can be replaced in the same action.
  Additionally, the automatic character detection
  recognizes characters also by their aliases.
• In the gear menu of the treatment and synospis, the empty lines
  between steps and/or scenes can be deactivated. These options allow for
  a more dense text, especially in combination with the new standard
  page layout.
• The Storytelling guidance now includes a section for the
  “New Want” with a text field to describe the new
  want.
• Note icon has been changed into a drop-down. This makes it
  possible to offer the option Open note editor at a more
  accessible location in the drop-down menu.
• New free fonts are included with DramaQueen, available
  in the document settings. All included monospace fonts have the same
  font metrics, and can be used for the script and the new standard page,
  without violating the international standards.
• The formatting options strike-out and underline have been reworked.
  The previously selected color will be remembered.
• Improvement of the Smart-Imports of scripts
  that have no scene numbering
• The analysis graphic ‘Dramatic Chart’ now shows
  the descriptions entered for turning points and the outlines
  of steps and scenes when hovering these elements with the mouse.
• The text statistics now show the number of steps
  and scenes.
• The storytelling guidance for sub-storylines now
  shows the options for the characters need and the different options for
  the ending.
• When dragging a step in the Outline panel, the
  preview now shows the scenes contained in the step, to make it clear
  that these will be moved along with the step.

BUGFIXES

• Error in the character name smart type: It didn’t work anymore for
  typing small letters as intended
• In the PDF export, the text layout could be slightly different
  from the page view in certain circumstances.
• Activation problem caused by an incomplete or malformed server
  response caused an error dialog. The error was not intended to be
  visible when there was already a previous successful activation.
• Line breaks in the text fields of characters and locations are
  stored correctly once again.
• A number of crashes during text editing have been fixed.
• DramaQueen crashed when clicking on structure elements and
  turning points in the Outline.
• DramaQueen crashed when opening the text statistics with an
  empty text level.
• When creating a new character, idea, storyline or location and after
  overwriting the name in the list, directly adding another element by
  clicking the Plus-button the changed name for the first element was not
  adopted.
• Fixes a crash, when trying to create the first element
  (storyline, idea, character or location) in the respective panel
  in a fresh document (affected only version 1.6.2).
• Creating additional elements (storylines, ideas and locations)
  no longer shows the irritating warning that empty names are not
  allowed.
• Crashes from error-reports have been fixed.