MarsEdit 4.1.3 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update fixes several bugs to improve the overall usability of the app:

• More improvements to the reliability of the Safari extension
• When a dragged image contains both higher resolution and lower resolution versions, MarsEdit now prefers higher resolution
• Improvements to the List formatting macros to make them transform several selected lines into a single list
• Fixed a bug to avoid recompressing images when no changes are made to them
• Fixed a bug that caused selected custom colors to be unset when clicking out of the color panel
• Fixed a hang that could occur if authentication fails while trying to upload an image to a blog
• Fixed a bug that caused blogs to re-expand their Posts/Pages subsections even if user had collapsed them
• Fixed a bug that caused some standard formatting macros to lose their functionality when a custom keyboard shortcut was set
• Setting the Featured Image is now supported via VoiceOver

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

FastScripts 2.7.1 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update fixes a bug that was introduced in FastScripts 2.7, affecting scripts that use the “path to me” AppleScript command to get a reference to the location of the running script.

FastScripts 2.7 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and on to the Mac App Store.

This update is particularly important for folks who have already installed Apple’s macOS 10.14 Mojave beta OS. A change in those betas causes FastScripts 2.6.13 and earlier to fail when running scripts that control any other app. If you’ve run into problems with FastScripts where the system reports that it “is not allowed” to control other apps, this update should address those problems.

Although FastScripts is not a very visual app, I also took the opportunity to update it to support Mojave’s forthcoming Dark Mode. The Preferences and alert panels will now adapt to Dark Mode styles, and the option to set a custom color for FastScripts’s menu icon is now adaptive to dark or light mode: you can set a custom color while in either mode and your choice will stick to that mode.

Summary of changes in FastScripts 2.7:

• Preliminary improvements for macOS Mojave 10.14
  • Fix an issue preventing running scripts that control other apps
  • Initial Dark Mode support for Mojave
• Fix the “Automatically Check for Updates” option
• Improved error reporting on script failures
• Removed old, unused PowerPC code from app
• Now requires macOS 10.12 or higher

I hope you enjoy the update!

MarsEdit 4.1.2 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update includes a substantial improvement to the Safari App Extension, and a number of bug fixes and enhancements:

• Improve reliability of the Safari App Extension which could become disabled on complex web sites
• Fix a bug that caused non-image files such as PDF documents to be converted to single-pixel images
• Fix a bug that prevented dragging images from the “Uploaded” tab of the Media Manager
• Fix a problem where “Preserve All Metadata” didn’t work when attaching an image for later upload
• Revert to pre-4.1 behavior of postponing initializing Media Manager until window is opened
• Tag completion now prioritizes exact diacritical matches ahead of fuzzy matches
• Restore the “Don’t show again” checkbox on the Rich/Plain text mode switch alert

I realized when I went to post about this update that I neglected to ever officially acknowledge the 4.1.1 update, which I released a couple weeks ago. That one contained fewer fixes, but they are still important:

• Fix a crash when dragging images from Photos.app before MarsEdit’s Upload Utility window has been opened
• Fix a crash that could occur when “Preserve All” was selected for image metadata
• Fix a bug that prevented “Preserve All” metadata option from staying selected on a blog

Enjoy!