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Scroll 0.1.6: Improved Story canvas controls
Scroll 0.1.6 improves navigation and selection across Story canvas views, making trackpad, scroll-wheel, and keyboard interactions smoother and more reliable.
- Improves panning, continuous pinch zoom, and box selection across Story canvas views
- Fixes Space-drag panning after selecting canvas content
- Fixes unintended app-window zoom and restores scrollbar dragging
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Scroll 0.1.5: Refined Story card workflows and sign-in experience
Scroll 0.1.5 unifies Story card creation, editing, and management, improves localization and draft recovery, and refines the sign-in interface.
- Unifies Story card creation, editing, and management
- Improves localization for card types, templates, properties, and relations
- Improves card metadata editing and draft recovery
- Fixes inconsistent backgrounds on the welcome sign-in screen
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Scribe 0.2.1: More reliable saves and clearer project workflows
Scribe 0.2.1 improves project opening, document saving, the Function menu, and update prompts, while refining the sign-in and About experience.
- Improves project opening and recent project history
- Makes document saving and project archives more reliable
- Clarifies the Function menu and update prompts
- Refines the sign-in experience
- Simplifies device information in About
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Scribe 0.2.0 release notes
This release refreshes the sign-in UI and selected toolbar icons, fixes a Windows packaged-app startup issue, and requires a full installer download for the 0.2.0 upgrade.
- Refreshes the sign-in UI and account entry points
- Updates selected toolbar icons
- Fixes a Windows packaged-app startup issue
- Requires a full installer download for 0.2.0
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Scribe 0.1.9 release notes
This release adds and improves Latin+CJK mixed typography, refines EPUB and image export messaging, and fixes a Windows sign-out focus issue.
- Adds Latin+CJK mixed typography settings
- Improves how previews, PDF, and EPUB apply mixed fonts from Appearance styles
- Clarifies image export limits when a mixed-font Appearance is active
- Fixes a Windows focus issue after signing out
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Scribe 0.1.8 release notes
This release fixes Windows editor focus problems after conflict prompts and refreshes the project chooser shown after closing a project.
- Fixes cursor and editing lockups after version conflict prompts on Windows
- Reduces false conflict prompts in OneDrive and similar synced folders
- Refreshes the project chooser shown after closing a project and follows the current app theme
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Scribe 0.1.7 release notes
This release improves local desktop project saving, recovery, and import behavior, especially when editing inside cloud-synced folders.
- Fixes repeated false conflict prompts while autosaving in cloud-synced folders
- Preserves paragraph alignment, blank paragraphs, and soft line breaks after saving
- Improves recovery after unexpected exits and makes conflict recovery easier
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