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Black Ink 1.1.8

• NOTE: The New York Times seems to have (temporarily?) stopped publishing their weekly free puzzle. We're leaving the puzzle source in Black Ink in the hopes they will reinstate functionality soon.
• Support a new 'Start Over' menu item to clear a puzzle's contents.
• Fix a bug that caused automatic app update checking from working as expected.
• Fix an issue with puzzle sources failing silently after one failed puzzle load
• Fixed some issues with puzzles that have special character answers such as É in them
• Fix the timer window so it starts below puzzle window even when opening multiple puzzles.

Black Ink 1.1.7

• 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

Black Ink 1.1.6

• Fix a crash that could occur while changing preferences
• Fix more issues with puzzle corruption when entering multiple character answers

Black Ink 1.1.5

• Fix a puzzle corruption bug when entering multiple characters

Black Ink 1.1.4

• 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

Black Ink 1.1.3

• 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

Black Ink 1.1.2

• 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

Black Ink 1.1.1

• Fix a problem in 1.1 that caused blank puzzle printouts for some users

Black Ink 1.1

• 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

Black Ink 1.0.9

• Fix problem that caused puzzle letters too draw too small
• Fix zooming of non-square puzzles

Black Ink 1.0.8

• 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)