{"id":1663,"date":"2011-02-04T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T22:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2011-02-04T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T23:12:34","slug":"black-ink-1-3-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/1663\/black-ink-1-3-beta","title":{"rendered":"Black Ink 1.3 Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blackink\/\">Black Ink<\/a> on the Mac App Store has motivated me to get busy working on a number of improvements I have been planning for some time but just hadn&#8217;t found time to do.<\/p>\n<p>The big deal in 1.3 is that I added support for a different format of puzzle that opens up Black Ink to a number of new sources for more solving fun.<\/p>\n<p>Because I don&#8217;t have a strong, established beta testing group for Black Ink, I&#8217;m opening this up as a public beta to get any bugs ironed out before it goes public for the Mac App Store and direct-purchase customers. If you&#8217;d like to test out, just download and give it a spin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blackink\/BlackInk1.3b1.zip\">Download Black Ink 1.3b1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to <a href=\"mailto:support@red-sweater.com?subject=Black%20Ink%20Beta\">drop me a line<\/a> if you run into any problems, but also if you are interested in being part of a more permanent Black Ink beta testing group. I&#8217;m going to try to get organized for future, private testing rounds.<\/p>\n<p>A round-up of the changes to expect in this release:<\/p>\n<h4>Black Ink 1.3b1<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>New web puzzle sources\n<ul>\n<li>LA Times Daily &amp; Sunday<\/li>\n<li>Newsday<\/li>\n<li>USA Today<\/li>\n<li>Universal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rework the Startup preferences to be more user-friendly with reopening puzzles<\/li>\n<li>Give keyboard shortcut Cmd-K to &#8220;Check Current Letter&#8221;    <\/li>\n<li>Now includes automatic crash reporter<\/li>\n<li>Fix a bug that caused Black Ink to hang when printing on rare occasions<\/li>\n<li>Fix a bug that caused puzzle timer to be placed off screen edge<\/li>\n<li>Fix a bug that could prevent puzzle solving menu items from being enabled<\/li>\n<li>Fix a bug that prevented canceling a stalled puzzle download from working<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Known Issues<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Encoding issues with Newsday 2\/4\/11 characters<\/li>\n<li>Documentation not updated to reflect reworked startup preferences<\/li>\n<li>Puzzle icons in startup window get smaller if window closed and reopened<\/li>\n<li>Newsday, USA Today, and Universal have generic icons for now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The success of Black Ink on the Mac App Store has motivated me to get busy working on a number of improvements I have been planning for some time but just hadn&#8217;t found time to do. The big deal in 1.3 is that I added support for a different format of puzzle that opens up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}