{"id":7,"date":"2007-10-08T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flospace.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-01-22T20:45:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T00:45:56","slug":"flospace-floprompter-23-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flospace.com\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"FloSpace FloPrompter 2.3 Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce the release of <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">FloPrompter 2.3!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FloPrompter version 2.3 has so many new features, we probably could have called it &#8220;3.0&#8221; &#8212; but we decided to just increment the number instead. This also means that it&#8217;s a free update for all current FloPrompter customers!<\/p>\n<p>The development emphasis for this release was on improving the word processing capabilities of the authoring window, adding a automatic software check capability, and improving integration with Microsoft Word. Check out this list of impressive new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spellchecking:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> FloPrompter supports both live spellchecking (look for little red squiggly underlines under mis-spelled words) and on-demand spellchecking for the entire document. Right-click on a mis-spelled word to see a list of suggestions!<\/li>\n<li><strong>User Dictionaries:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> Along with spellchecking, we&#8217;ve implemented user-specific dictionaries so that you can build up a list of words unique to your world. Right-click on a &#8220;mis-spelled&#8221; word to add it to your personal dictionary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find &amp; Replace:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> Now you can look for specific words or phrases. You can replace a single occurrence of a word, and also do global (document-wide) replacements!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thesaurus:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> Looking for an alternative way to say what you mean? Check the thesaurus for ideas! Right-click on any word to see a list of synonyms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Import Microsoft Word:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> Now you can import Microsoft Word documents! You can also import HTML files.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Export Formats:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> What&#8217;s better than importing from Word? Being able to export FloPrompter documents into Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, HTML, and more!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic Update Checks:<\/strong> <em>New for 2.3!<\/em> Never lose track of whether a new version is available for FloPrompter. Periodically, FloPrompter will check for updates, or you can click a button to check at any time. And of course, you can turn this feature off, if you prefer, in the Options Dialog.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Word Processing Improvements:<\/span> We made major improvements in the word processing abilities of the Authoring Window. Copy and paste are much more robust. Changing text styles (like bold, bullets, or italics) is <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">much <\/span>faster and stable.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Minor Tweaks:<\/span> We also made a few minor tweaks, like suppressing tooltips in the teleprompter player window while it&#8217;s automatically scrolling (thanks to a certain minister in West Virginia for that tip!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to all of the new enhancements, we finally figured out how to fix a very perplexing licensing error that seemed to only occur at schools and government agencies. In short, when someone went to enter a valid license key, the licensing system would say something about the user&#8217;s not having sufficient administrator privileges. It drove us all pretty crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, thanks to the help of a school in Michigan, we figured out what the issue was. We also learned that this issue affected anyone in a managed information technology environment (for example, where your IT manager gives regular users limited rights to install new software). The solution was to store the FloPrompter license key in a different part of the user&#8217;s hard drive than we had been doing before. Current FloPrompter customers don&#8217;t have to worry &#8212; FloPrompter will automatically move the license key information to the new location so you will <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">not <\/span>have to re-enter the key.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update Recommendation:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Critical Release<\/span><em>.<\/em> Because this is such a major update in features, including the new automatic update checking capability, we <span style=\"font-style: italic\">strongly recommend <\/span>upgrading. If you decide to update, this is, of course, a <strong>free update<\/strong> for all FloPrompter customers! FloPrompter customers are always requested to download the latest version on the <a href=\"http:\/\/flospace.com\/downloads.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FloSpace Downloads<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the customers (and potential customers) who requested these feature enhancements. As you can see, your comments <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold\">are <\/span>heard and result in direct improvements to the software!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce the release of FloPrompter 2.3! FloPrompter version 2.3 has so many new features, we probably could have called it &#8220;3.0&#8221; &#8212; but we decided to just increment the number instead. This also means that it&#8217;s a free update for all current FloPrompter customers! 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