Version History
Here you can find the changelog of Mellel since it was posted on our website on 2019-10-05.
The latest version is 6.0.0 and it was updated on soft112.com on 19 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 6.0.0
posted on 2023-12-14
Dec 14, 2023
Version 6.0.0
• Compatibility with Mellel 6 on the Mac.
• Bug fixes.
version 5.1.5
posted on 2023-06-15
Jun 15, 2023
Version 5.1.5
• Fixed an issue that caused changes in table text and text boxes in a header/footer to sometimes not to be visible after existing editing the header/footer.
• Fixed a problem that caused paragraphs with hanging indents to be exported improperly to docx.
• Several other bug fixes.
version 5.1.4
posted on 2023-03-01
Mar 1, 2023
Version 5.1.4
• bug fixes
version 5.1.3
posted on 2022-08-21
Aug 21, 2022 Version 5.1.3
• RTF Import and Export improvements.
• Lots of bug fixes.
version 5.1.1
posted on 2022-03-24
Mar 24, 2022 Version 5.1.1
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when copying/pasting between mac and iOS.
• DOCX export: made some changes to the way styles are classified to improve compatibility with MS Word's built-in styles.
• RTF Export: fixed an issue that caused spaces following a Unicode character to be omitted when processing RTF exported document from Mellel in Pandoc and possibly others.
• Several other bug fixes.
version 5.1.0
posted on 2022-02-14
Feb 14, 2022 Version 5.1.0
• Full compatibility with Mellel 5.1 for Mac.
• Revised Help.
• Bug fixes.
version 5.0.8
posted on 2021-09-05
Sep 5, 2021 Version 5.0.8
• Fixed an issue that caused autotitle format elements to be doubled when positioned right at the end of the format.
• DOCX Export: Fixed a problem that caused list numbering not to be reset to 1 automatically.
• Fixed an issue that caused annotation (comments) markup in text to be drawn in the wrong location for annotations placed on a non-first page in a footnote/endnote.
• PDF Export: Fixed an issue that caused hyperlinks to appear blank when exporting to PDF.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Mellel to crash when opening a new document.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when making a selection using an apple pencil.
• Fixes an issue that caused Mellel to hang when dealing with very tall inline images inside footnotes/endnotes.
version 5.0.7
posted on 2021-06-05
Jun 5, 2021 Version 5.0.7
• Added a "document name" screen when creating a new document.
• Added a "cancel" button in document rename screen.
• Major overhaul of drag & drop. Local (within document) drags are considered "move", more accurate drop location detection, whole-word drags are treated "smartly" by adding spaces before and after if needed and enabled dragging from documents containing floating images.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to get stuck on a blank screen when restoring state to an open document after a restart or some other even that would cause the app to terminate.
• Better handling of failure when opening documents (showing an error message, closing the document if not opened).
• Better handling of failure to close documents, including closing documents that were not opened successfully.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to update a document preview immediately after closing it.
• Improved handling of documents dragged on Mellel windows, opening the document in the dragged upon window if possible and not always opening a new window.
• Fixed an issue that caused table resize handles not to be drawn and erased properly when switching in and out of tables.
• Fixed an issue that caused renaming dismiss transition to zoom icon out to the wrong item in the document browser.
• Scrolling (behind the scenes) to revel the document before doing the close transition to better orient the user when closing the document.
• Showing insertion point immediately after opening a document to allow typing right away.
• Much improved better performance and memory consumption with iCloud on.
• Better appearance of document during opening when document takes a long time to open.
• (Docx import) Fixed issues that caused Mellel to fail to import some unusually formatted docx documents exported by applications like iA writer and perhaps others.
• (Docx import) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to import docx documents containing tables with sparse grids.
• (Docx import) Properly reading reverse tab in some docx documents.
• (Docx import) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to open docx documents produced by "Marked 2".
• Fixed a few memory leaks.
version 5.0.6
posted on 2021-03-01
Mar 1, 2021 Version 5.0.6
• Fixed an issue that caused page, column and page style breaks to appear as strange glyphs in the text when using Athelas font (and possibly other fonts).
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect rendering of alef + hataf patah + ZWJ + meteg + dehi and possibly other marks + ZWJ combinations, with SBL Hebrew font (and possibly other OpenType fonts)
• Fixed an issue that prevented Mellel from opening docx files originating from Scrivener.
• Fixed an issue that cased some popovers to appear truncated.
• Fixed issues with the functionality of the find panel options popover.
• Fixed an issue that caused deleted text to show as a square in the annotation bubble when exporting to docx while in track changes "final with changes" display mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to apply mark to mark positioning indicated in OpenType fonts when more then two marks are involved.
• Performance improvements in saving long, complex documents originating from docx import.
version 5.0.5
posted on 2020-11-20
Nov 20, 2020 Version 5.0.5
• Multi-window support for iOS 13 and above. You can now edit multiple documents (Mellel or other) side-by-side.
• Drag & Drop support for text and images. You can now drag text to and from Mellel documents.
• Enabled using user-installed fonts support on iOS 14.
• Using iOS's font picker on iOS 13 and upward. You can now pick any font installed on your iPad vie the system's font picker.
• Faster opening of documents. Removed some redundancies that caused slower than expected opening of documents.
• Enabled pasting & dropping citations from Bookends.
• Fixed bad display of colors in color selector for changes author.
• Fixed an issue that caused paragraph and character-style names to appear truncated horizontally in the style selector widget.
• Fixes issues that caused the bottom of the popover display to be truncated at the bottom.
• Fixed an issue that caused inline image selection handles not to show up or be removed when selecting/deselecting an inline image.
version 5.0.5
posted on 2020-11-20
20 Nov 2020 Version 5.0.5
• Multi-window support for iOS 13 and above. You can now edit multiple documents (Mellel or other) side-by-side.
• Drag & Drop support for text and images. You can now drag text to and from Mellel documents.
• Enabled using user-installed fonts support on iOS 14.
• Using iOS's font picker on iOS 13 and upward. You can now pick any font installed on your iPad vie the system's font picker.
• Faster opening of documents. Removed some redundancies that caused slower than expected opening of documents.
• Enabled pasting & dropping citations from Bookends.
• Fixed bad display of colors in color selector for changes author.
• Fixed an issue that caused paragraph and character-style names to appear truncated horizontally in the style selector widget.
• Fixes issues that caused the bottom of the popover display to be truncated at the bottom.
• Fixed an issue that caused inline image selection handles not to show up or be removed when selecting/deselecting an inline image.
version 5.0.4
posted on 2020-09-29
29. Sep. 2020 Version 5.0.4
• Fixed several issues that sometimes caused artifacts, double text and other problems after typing and scrolling a document.
• Fixed an issue that caused exporting to RTF to fail sometimes with documents containing floating images and text boxes.
• (DOCX export) Fixed a regression that caused character style variations not to be respected on export.
• Fixed a regression that caused the on-screen background color not to be drawn.
• Fixes an issue that caused Mellel to sometimes crash when applying character or paragraph attributes in a table cell within a footnote.
version 5.0.4
posted on 2020-09-29
Sep 29, 2020 Version 5.0.4
• Fixed several issues that sometimes caused artifacts, double text and other problems after typing and scrolling a document.
• Fixed an issue that caused exporting to RTF to fail sometimes with documents containing floating images and text boxes.
• (DOCX export) Fixed a regression that caused character style variations not to be respected on export.
• Fixed a regression that caused the on-screen background color not to be drawn.
• Fixes an issue that caused Mellel to sometimes crash when applying character or paragraph attributes in a table cell within a footnote.
version 5.0.2
posted on 2020-08-03
Aug 3, 2020 Version 5.0.2
Bug fixes and improvements in Mellel 5.0.5
• Word Format (DOCX) import improvements
- Fixed an issue that caused left to right paragraphs to be assigned with right to left direction with documents imported from Pages.
- Check that we're actually getting a chracter style (and not a paragraph style) for a character style reference (w:rStyle). Fixes an issue that prevented Mellel from opening slightly malformed docx files.
- Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to open docx files with certain combinations of horizontally and vertically merged cells together.
- Fixed an issue that caused bad import of fields inside footnotes.
- Lots of fixes and tweaks to the handling of citations and bibliography when re-importing.
- Fixed an issue that caused page number alignment in header/footer not to be respected sometimes.
- Fixed an issue that caused Mellel documents containing paragraphs and paragraphs styles with more then 64 tab stops to fail to open by MSWord.
- Fixed an issue that caused redundant paragraph breaks after page breaks.
• Word Format (DOCX) Export improvements
- Fixed an issue that caused exported footnotes and endnotes to be unrecognized when re-importing to Mellel or when opening in Pages.
- Performance improvements when exporting long complex documents. More compressed and economical DOCX generation to allow target word-processor to better handle the exported document.
- Fixed an issue that caused some documents in landscape orientation to be exported as portrait.
- Fixed an issue that caused an extra paragraph break to be inserted after column and page breaks.
- Fixed an issue that caused tab suffix for note symbols to be converted to space.
• Typing performance improvements.
• Reduced energy consumption when idle.
• Fixed an issue where formatting of an auto-title title was not adjusted correctly when changing the auto-title from stream to stream or when making changes to the auto-title setup.
• Fixed an issue that caused display to jump to a different location when switching, even for a short time, to a different application.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when changing a note's note stream.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when exporting docx document containing an cross-reference.
New Features with Mellel 5
• Export to Word Format (docx)
version 5.0.0
posted on 2020-07-02
Jul 2, 2020 Version 5.0.0
• Word Format export (docx)
• Bug fixes
version 4.2.9
posted on 2020-05-01
May 1, 2020 Version 4.2.9
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to look bad on iOS 13 with Dark mode.
• Some minor fixes under the hood.
version 4.2.8
posted on 2020-02-19
Feb 19, 2020 Version 4.2.8
Version 4.2.7
• Fixed several bugs causing proliferation of document (diamond) styles after editing styles in the style-set window
• Improved color fidelity, Mellel now reproduces the selected color (for text, background, cell borders etc) much more faithfully and consistently across different devices and platforms (Mac, iPad)
• Optimized image drawing, vastly improving typing performance in the vicinity of high-resolution images and PDF images
• Fixed some issues displaying missing images
• Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when opening some malformed documents
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to export markers applied to auto-titles to PDF even when the "export markers option" is unchecked.
Version 4.2.8
• Fixed a bug that caused the screen to go blank when closing a document or dismissing a document naming screen on iOS 13
• Fixed a bug that caused auto-capitalization to erroneously capitlize letters when placing the insertion point in the middle of a word in iOS 13
• Fixed a bug that caused option+arrow key cursor movement (with a hardware keyboard) to fail under iOS 13
• Improved transition animation when opening and closing documents
• Improved transition animation when starting to edit a document name in the document browser
version 3.5.1
posted on 2015-06-15
version 5.0.6
posted on 1970-01-01
2021年3月1日 Version 5.0.6
• Fixed an issue that caused page, column and page style breaks to appear as strange glyphs in the text when using Athelas font (and possibly other fonts).
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect rendering of alef + hataf patah + ZWJ + meteg + dehi and possibly other marks + ZWJ combinations, with SBL Hebrew font (and possibly other OpenType fonts)
• Fixed an issue that prevented Mellel from opening docx files originating from Scrivener.
• Fixed an issue that cased some popovers to appear truncated.
• Fixed issues with the functionality of the find panel options popover.
• Fixed an issue that caused deleted text to show as a square in the annotation bubble when exporting to docx while in track changes "final with changes" display mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to apply mark to mark positioning indicated in OpenType fonts when more then two marks are involved.
• Performance improvements in saving long, complex documents originating from docx import.
version 5.0.5
posted on 1970-01-01
2020年11月20日 Version 5.0.5
• Multi-window support for iOS 13 and above. You can now edit multiple documents (Mellel or other) side-by-side.
• Drag & Drop support for text and images. You can now drag text to and from Mellel documents.
• Enabled using user-installed fonts support on iOS 14.
• Using iOS's font picker on iOS 13 and upward. You can now pick any font installed on your iPad vie the system's font picker.
• Faster opening of documents. Removed some redundancies that caused slower than expected opening of documents.
• Enabled pasting & dropping citations from Bookends.
• Fixed bad display of colors in color selector for changes author.
• Fixed an issue that caused paragraph and character-style names to appear truncated horizontally in the style selector widget.
• Fixes issues that caused the bottom of the popover display to be truncated at the bottom.
• Fixed an issue that caused inline image selection handles not to show up or be removed when selecting/deselecting an inline image.