Storyist Software
Storyist Software Begins New Chapter With The Introduction of Storyist® 1.4
—Powerful writing tool adds new features for seamless integration with writers’ workflows—
Sunnyvale, CA—August 12th, 2008 – Storyist Software, a developer of creative writing tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release of Storyist 1.4, an update to their popular story development tool for novelists and screenwriters. 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.
“Our writers are a diverse group,” says Steve Shepard, CEO of Storyist Software. “We listened carefully to their requests and expanded the software’s capabilities accordingly. The result is a tool that works even more effectively with a variety of workflows.”
Highlights of the release include:
- The Inspector: A new floating Inspector panel 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.
In addition to standard word processing features such as spelling and grammar checking, Storyist includes a page layout view with support for headers, footers, and style sheets. It also provides unique features such as customizable Story Sheets to help writers refine story ideas, a Project Manager that keeps all writing (manuscript and notes) organized and accessible, Wiki Links that allow writers to link their notes together and Project Templates to get writers up and writing quickly.
Storyist is compatible with Mac OS X v10.4 and higher. The download-only version is priced at $59.00 and a download + CD version is $69.00. Both are available through the company’s online store located at www.storyist.com/store. For more information and for a free two-week trial of Storyist 1.4, please visit www.storyist.com
About Storyist Software
Founded in 2003 by Silicon Valley veteran Steve Shepard, Storyist Software develops creative writing tools for Mac OS X that make the process of writing, editing and publishing as simple as possible – but no simpler. Storyist is a registered trademark of Storyist Software LLC.
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