- Adapt to support puzzles that mix diagramless and regular formats
- Fix a bug that prevented puzzle window from being resized by dragging the window's edge
- Selected clue is now scrolled to visible with a little buffer area around it in the clue list
- Now marks any incorrect answers in the puzzle when enabling the "Automatic Correction" preference
- Remove "move to unsolved after switching direction" preference as it was not behaving well
- Performance enhancements for Apple Silicon based Macs
- Now supports printing very large puzzles that require more than 2 pages
- Fix issues printing in landscape mode or to small paper sizes
- Work around a crashing bug at launch in some versions of macOS
- Improved positioning of clue numbers and letters in puzzle grid
- Improved layout of puzzle grid when printing
- Web Puzzle panel now defaults to the last puzzle source opened
- Added menu items for switching puzzle direction and moving to next and previous words
- Fixed a crash that rarely occurred while printing
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a new puzzle
- Improved animation when entering full screen mode
- Fix a bug that caused the timer to pause while entering a special answer entry
- Fix a problem that caused the puzzle to leave a blank space at edge on some Macs
- Fix the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Period for canceling a puzzle download
- Fix some grid layout issues on non-Retina displays
- Fix a bug that caused the first-launch registration panel to contain placeholder strings
- Typing a number to jump to a clue now automatically commits without pressing enter
- Change default navigation preferences to not pause cursor movement when changing directions
- Fix the appearance of circled cells to prevent the circle being shifted a little too high
- Fix a crash that could occur when tabbing in a puzzle with squares that do not correspond to any clue
- Fix a bug that could change other answers when revealing a multi-character answer
- Fix a bug that caused the wrong clue to show when reopening the app with a down clue selected
- Heads up, New York Times fans! A recent change to the site prevents Black Ink from automatically logging in and downloading the latest puzzles. Existing users will be able to continue downloading puzzles for the time being, but new users will have to download puzzles from the NYT web site. We hope to find a workaround to this in the future.
- Added support for The Inkubator puzzle source. They are offering a free, two-month trial!
- General improvements to puzzle printing
- Fixed a bug that caused puzzle clues to print in bold when fitting to a single page
- Fixed the appearance of the Puzzle Notes when Dark Mode is enabled
- Improved the centering of circles when drawn in puzzle squares
- Decreased the severity of the shadow drawn on text in selected cells
- Fixed a bug that caused the last row/column to be slightly shorter/narrower than other cells
- Typing a clue number to jump to a clue now favors clue in the same direction as selected
- Removed Emoji & Symbols menu item since it's not suitable for puzzle answer entry
- Direct navigation by typing clue number now favors the orientation where the answer is not yet entered
- Accessibility
- Improve "Speak items under the pointer" to speak the right clue for across or down depending on current focus
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused downloads of older WSJ puzzles to fail
- Fixed a bug that caused the puzzle window to drift off screen when making it larger
- Fixed an issue that prevented logging in to American Values Club accounts when passwords contain particular characters
- Fixed a bug that caused the timer to not be visible/started by default
- Improved error handling when a downloaded puzzle cannot be saved for whatever reason
- Major new release featuring VoiceOver support, a refined visual interface, streamlined solving, and a free-for-all mode with limited features.
- Update puzzle information for American Values Club
- This update addresses a problem that prevented some puzzle downloads over HTTPS secure connections from completing as expected.
- Fix downloads from the premium AV Club puzzle source.
- Fix a login problem with some authenticated puzzle sources.
- Fix a problem where puzzle grid answers could shift slightly while solving
- Add NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching to Info.plist to depending on high power GPU
- Workaround a bug that could cause Black Ink to crash when waking a Touch Bar Mac from sleep
- Tabbing to a new word now skips completed words when "Move to Blank" preference is set
- Fix a crash that could occur when opening a damaged puzzle file
- Fix a UI glitch that caused multi-character entry focus ring to be wider on one side
- Eliminate some issues caused by entering single-character answer in multi-character entry mode
- Disable system window tabbing on macOS Sierra, because it doesn't work well with puzzle document windows
- Update to use more secure HTTPS based URLs when connecting to Red Sweater's web site
- Black Ink will now try to download an earlier puzzle if the latest puzzle from a source is already downloaded
- Fix an issue that could cause NYT login to fail repeatedly even with good login info
- Switch to using Helvetica consistently across the board for printout text
- Fix an issue that prevented NY Times Premium login request from appearing
- Fine-tune drawing of clue numbers so they aren't so close to the left edge of squares
- New support for premium puzzle downloads from New York Times and American Values Club
- Fix a bug where the puzzle chooser would appear upon launch even when already opening a document
- Fix a crash that could sometimes occur while closing a puzzle
- Sandboxed for increased security
- Now supports autosave and document version browsing on 10.7 Lion or later
- Clue list rows now resize height to guarantee showing entire clue
- Puzzle solving - improvements to the mechanics of when checked and revealed indicators are shown
- Fix an issue where typing a clue number too high for puzzle could crash
- Fix a crash when starting the puzzle Timer on Mac OS X 10.6.8
- Fix broken behavior in 1.5.2 where clicking on the Dock didn't re-open the puzzle browser
- Support GateKeeper for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X 10.8
- Fix an issue that caused the puzzle browser window to erroneously report and expired evaluation period
- Fix printing bug that omitted the puzzle grid by default for new users
- Only show Tool Tip content for squares that have special characters
- Fix appearance of demo-version info graphic on puzzle browser window
- Fix an issue causing the Crash Reporter to fail on Mac OS X 10.5
- Support new options for printing puzzle grid at the bottom of the page
- Cleaner printing layout for fit-on-one-sheet printing
- Improve speed of printing puzzles
- Fix clue lists scrollbar appearance on Lion
- Fix a problem where puzzles would no longer open after installing official Across Lite app
- Printing improvements
- Support a new "fit on one sheet of paper" print option
- Support live-updating of print preview as settings are changed
- Fix issues with printing when clue list printing is disabled
- Work around a printing issue on a pre-release version of Mac OS X
- Other Fixes
- Prevent possibility of crashes with some accidental keystrokes in puzzle view
- Remove Houston Chronicle as it stopped publishing Mar 25, 2011
- Prevent double-quoting titles of puzzles already in quotes
- Further fixes for Mac OS X 10.4 functionality
- Fix to show puzzle document names as "Black Ink Puzzle Document" in Finder
- Restore ability to add custom puzzle sources to the default list
- This release restores functionality for 10.4 based Macs
- Rework the Startup preferences to be more user-friendly with reopening puzzles
- Give keyboard shortcut Cmd-K to "Check Current Letter"
- Now includes automatic crash reporter
- Fix a bug that caused Black Ink to hang when printing on rare occasions
- Fix a bug that caused puzzle timer to be placed off screen edge
- Fix a bug that could prevent puzzle solving menu items from being enabled
- Fix a bug that prevented canceling a stalled puzzle download from working
- Fix crashing bug on launch with 10.4-based computers
- Fix possible crash pressing return in puzzle browser when no source selected
- Fix behavior of Open as Unsaved when the puzzle is not already open
- Fix issues with showing and hiding the puzzle Timer window
- Fix issue with puzzles that have e.g. a blank center square (NYT 7/22/10)
- Printing improvements
- New option lets you choose whether the grid appears on left or right of page
- Clue text is now less likely to be split across two columns
- Puzzle zoom factor is now remembered when you open new puzzles
- Supports horizontal scrolling with Mighty Mouse and trackpads
- Fix an occasional crashing bug when downloading puzzles
- Fix a crash when trying to use OS X definition hotkey over puzzle grid
- Update the Philadelphia Sunday and Wall Street Journal puzzle sources.
- Puzzle Sources
- Fix the Chronicle of Higher Education source
- Remove Syndey Morning Herald - the paper has stopped publishing new puzzles
- Fix a bug that could cause downloads to stop working until relaunching the app
- Bug fixes and minor improvements
- Can now hover over a long puzzle title to see a tool tip window with the entire content
- Fix a visual bug with "Open As Unsolved" when the puzzle is already open
- Fix a bug that prevented numeric answers from being checked correctly
- Fix a bug that caused direction to change abruptly in puzzle that starts in "down" mode
- Multi-character answer improvements
- When revealing a multiple character answer, make sure the "revealed" color applies to all characters
- Fix check-as-you-type for multi-character answers
- Enter Multiple Letters menu item is now called "Enter Special Letters"
- After entering multiple character answer, now jumps to next square same as when entering single
- Fix a bug that caused reveal/correct to fail on some multi-character answers
- Fix a crash that could occur while changing preferences
- Fix more issues with puzzle corruption when entering multiple character answers
- Fix a puzzle corruption bug when entering multiple characters
- Fix a bug where the selection jumped inappropriately to end of word
- Fix a crashing bug related to selecting the wrong starting square on puzzles with black square in top-left
- New puzzle sources:
- Chicago Reader
- Onion AV Club
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Remove Little Rock Daily Record - no longer published
- Bug fixes
- Fix a problem with opening the wrong puzzle source when a source is disabled
- Fix an issue printing puzzles of unusual dimensions
- Fix display of the "puzzle correctly solved" dialog
- Fix to make sure download dialog closes after download
- Fix problems with duplicating and adding custom puzzle sources
- Fix a bug that caused last few clues of a puzzle to sometimes not print
- Fix a problem in 1.1 that caused blank puzzle printouts for some users
- Dramatically improved puzzle printing quality
- Improved highlighting of active clue in clue list
- Fix for crashing scenario when migrating preferences to a new Mac
- Improved reliability of puzzle downloads
- Fix some bugs with timer restarting after pausing
- Updated default puzzle sources
- New: Boston Globe Sunday
- New: Little Rock Daily Record
- Removed: Washington Post Sunday
- Fix problem that caused puzzle letters too draw too small
- Fix zooming of non-square puzzles
- Automatically stop timer when puzzle completed successfully
- Fix a bug that caused drawer edge preference not to be respected
- Update Houston Chronicle puzzle URL
- Fix a rare hanging bug when keyboard navigating some puzzles
Black Ink 1.0.7
- Menu items for making puzzle larger/smaller
- Add keyboard shortcut for opening web puzzle chooser
- Fix correctly-solved detection for puzzles with multi-character answers
Black Ink 1.0.6
- Fix a bug in 1.0.5 that could cause the web puzzles source to be cleared.
Black Ink 1.0.5
- Update the URL for the Thinks.com web puzzle source.
Black Ink 1.0.4
- Fix corruption with puzzles containing multi-character answers
- Don't show puzzle browser if opened with a double-clicked puzzle
Black Ink 1.0.3
- Improves reliability of web puzzle downloads, by downloading again if previous attempt was corrupted or the puzzle was not yet available on the server.
Black Ink 1.0.2
- Fix memory leaks
- Allow selection for copy/paste of clue text and puzzle credits
- Fix for "smart quotes" and similar characters found in some puzzles
- Fix bug with puzzles having no value for any of author, title, or copyright
- Add menu link to "Get More Puzzles..."
- Fix "Show By Text" color order in Preferences
- Center checkbox in web sources table and fix bug with size of table header for Web Sources
Black Ink 1.0.1
- Fix a crash when loading puzzles of differing height/width (e.g. 15x16)
- Fix inconsistencies in respecting "insertion movement" preferences
Black Ink 1.0
- First release. (Formerly MacXword)