yWriter7 by Spacejock Software

Compatible with Windows 7 SP1 and newer. Also tested on Linux using Wine.

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This software is free to download and use, and this page explains why.

Download and run yWriter7Full.exe (9.7mb) to update your copy of yWriter7 to the latest release version. (Please make sure yWriter7 isn't running while you're trying to update it!)

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Change Log:
If the version number next to an item is newer than 7.1.5.2, that change is in the latest beta

7.2.0.1 BLEEDING EDGE release 7.2.0.1 ALPHA much faster display updating on main screen, editor window, etc. 7.1.7.2 ALPHA Completely new Exporter. New commandline: /Compile (for epub). Usage: yWriter7.exe (project) /Compile (preset name1) (presetname 2) (*preset) 7.1.7.2 ALPHA completely replaced internal code which converts from rtf to markup and html, and vice versa. 7.1.7.2 ALPHA You can now bulk-change the Viewpoint character in the Scene List form. 7.1.7.2 ALPHA added 'Series name' and 'Series title' fields to the project settings screen. 7.1.7.2 ALPHA compiling to epub (integrated) is now about 10-40 times faster. 7.1.7.2 ALPHA yWriter has switched to a more modern version of the rich text editor control. M-dashes, smart quotes, etc should all work now. 7.1.7.1 ALPHA added versioning to the Editor window. Save content as new version, plus view them on the Versions tab. 7.1.7.1 ALPHA added a new Commandline switch: /docx "yWriter7.exe MIM1.yw7 /docx /noui" will export MIM1.yw7 to MIM1.docx in the project's Export folder 7.1.7.0 ALPHA added 'bulk add' for characters, locations and items 7.1.6.9 ALPHA New 'List all matches' in the main screen Find dialog 7.1.6.8 Fixed a bug where UIFont wasn't saving between sessions. 7.1.6.7 ALPHA Some changes to the UI font override code. 7.1.6.6 ALPHA re-enabled the option to change the UI font. 7.1.6.5 BETA fix for character report which was including all matches for the character name instead of precise matches. 7.1.6.4 BETA release (just the most recent Alpha, including all changes marked ALPHA since 7.1.5.8) 7.1.6.3 ALPHA fix for drag/dropping scenes not working, possibly related to projects with only a couple of chapters in them. 7.1.6.2 ALPHA fixed the 'check for update' feature. 7.1.6.1 ALPHA Added a new character report which shows every sentence every character is mentioned in 7.1.6.0 ALPHA the storyboard now has options to filter out unused scenes and scenes in the trash folder. (Default is to not show them) 7.1.5.9 ALPHA various fixes, including now being able to drag chapters more than one position upwards in the list at a time. 7.1.5.8 BETA over-tall windows should be shortened to fit your desktop automatically. (For cases where users make them taller on a high resolution screen, then switch to a lower resolution.) 7.1.5.7 BETA added more code to scroll list views when using the mouse wheel 7.1.5.6 BETA Considerable changes to the integrated epub exporter 7.1.5.5 BETA lots of bugfixes, work on Themes, work on the List control, searching, etc. 7.1.5.4 BETA fixed Ctrl+clicking not toggling selection in lists where multiple items were selected. 7.1.5.2 New drag/drop highlight on lists. 7.1.5.1 BETA all forms in the program should now obey the theme. Custom colours work too, in the colour picker. 7.1.5.0 Colour Themes replace almost everything in the program now. Please use the _updated themes as the basis for your own. 7.1.4.9 Dragging between lists also scrolls them correctly 7.1.4.8 Lists will automatically scroll up and down when you drag elements to the upper and lower portions. 7.1.4.7 Dragging project notes working again, same with dragging char/loc/items in the secondary list. 7.1.4.6 Trims stray spaces off the beginning and end of scene content. 7.1.4.5 Fixed crash when adding characters/locations/items through the scene editor 7.1.4.4 Search should now highlight words correctly in the scene preview window 7.1.4.3 Added some new customisable items to themes, fixed column widths sometimes starting out much too narrow. 7.1.4.2 Fix for drag-dropping inside lists. 7.1.4.1 Fix for double-clicking long scenes not opening the editor. Theme fixes. 7.1.4.0 The previous stable release (7.1.3.0) will be kept on my website at https://www.spacejock.com/yWriter7130/yWriter7Full.exe 7.1.4.0 Arrow keys, End and Home work correctly in the custom listviews. 7.1.3.9 BETA New integrated epub creator which no longer uses Calibre. Still work in progress. 7.1.3.8 BETA Export to RTF uses the 'export comments' checkbox, and export to Text has more options now. 7.1.3.7 (Unreleased) fixed the project note details not clearing when a project note is deleted 7.1.3.6 BETA Export to docx now uses styles for chapter headings and body text. 7.1.3.5 BETA copy to clipboard now includes several formats, including text, rtf and html. 7.1.3.4 BETA import and export from docx. New custom listview controls for scene and chapter list. Bug fixes. 7.1.3.3 BETA Pasting from Google Docs should now preserve bold, italics and underline. 7.1.3.2 BETA Uses the new custom listview control 7.1.3.1 BETA you can now use Ctrl+Comma (,) to insert a ? and Ctrl+Period (.) for ? 7.1.3.0 Promoted Beta to Release 7.1.2.9 BETA double-clicking project char/loc/item from the main screen works now. 7.1.2.8 BETA bugfixes 7.1.2.7 BETA Remove all blank lines works now, and you can apply this per-scene as well. 7.1.2.6 BETA Selecting a 'notes' scene no longer switches to the notes tab. Fix for beta 2.5 not refreshing the scene list at times. 7.1.2.5 BETA New 'extra logging' under tools, debug. Fix for pressing enter in scene list opening the wrong scene at times. 7.1.2.4 Promoted beta version 7.1.2.3 to release. 7.1.2.3 Replaced the custom tabbed dialog boxes in the Editor window with the default style. 7.1.2.2 You can set the RTF scene divider in Project Options (RTF tab, default * * *) and there's now a page break after each chapter. 7.1.2.1 Print Selected Chapters now allows you to include scene titles in the report 7.1.2.0 FIX drag/dropping sometimes ignoring user input. 7.1.1.9 FIX to remove extra blank lines left behind when splitting scenes 7.1.1.8 FIX for 'restore autobackup' feature. 7.1.1.7 Release version. Installs the sample Theme files to the correct location. 7.1.1.6 Release version 7.1.1.5 BETA Drag/drop chapters fix 7.1.1.4 BETA bug fix for creating multiple scenes in YW5 projects, only to have them cross-link the contents. 7.1.1.3 BETA Export to Ebook has been rewritten. You can now choose whether an exporter saves to mobi or epub or both. 7.1.1.2 BETA Items with alternate names should now highlight correctly. 7.1.1.1 In rare cases a newly created scene (YW5 projects only) would not store its filename. 7.1.1.0 BETA Restricted the max height of the 'controls bar' at the bottom of the editor window 7.1.0.9 BETA First release with the new colour scheme editor. Customise yWriter's theme to your liking! See Settings - Colour Scheme. 7.1.0.8 BETA quick fix for two places where chapters and scenes weren't being shown as updated. 7.1.0.7 BETA Some editor settings have been moved to the Editor Settings form. You can move the description field from the content tab to the details tab and vice versa. 7.1.0.6 BETA handles apostrophes in character names better. Scene window behaviour is now more logical. 7.1.0.5 Release version 7.1.0.4 BETA rebuilt the way project events are handled on the main screen. 7.0.9.7 BETA improved internal conversion from markup to RTF 7.0.9.6 BETA handles TAB characters in the editor window correctly. 7.0.9.5 BETA improved loading/converting of older YW5 projects. 7.0.9.4 Fix for some lists not updating information when they should. 7.0.9.3 Fixes for the 'set font size' form, and flickering in main screen lists when they're updated or refreshed. 7.0.9.2 Fixed 'Clone selected scene' and wordcount updates. 7.0.9.1 Fix for new chapters / scenes sometimes not showing until a reload. 7.0.9.0 See changes below 7.0.9.0 BETA dictionary now loads files with unix and windows line endings. Linespacing is back in the editor window. 7.0.8.9 BETA No longer saves RTF filenames to yw6 and yw7 format projects. Fixed remembering text-to-speech settings. 7.0.8.8 BETA second fix for the custom dictionary. 7.0.8.7 BETA bug fix for the custom dictionary. 7.0.8.6 See changes below. 7.0.8.6 BETA - new dictionary chooser. You can also navigate through spelling mistakes in a scene. 7.0.8.5 BETA - You can now drag characters/locations/items onto scenes and chapters. 7.0.7.9-7.0.8.4 debug versions 7.0.7.8 BETA - Now includes copy and paste (between projects) almost everywhere locations/characters/items/notes appear. 7.0.7.7 BETA - Improved display of the Storyboard, which now better reflects changes in the rest of the project. 7.0.7.6 BETA - tidied up the right-click menus for scenes and chapters. 7.0.7.5 BETA - fix for some reports not exporting. 7.0.7.4 BETA - Storyboard bugfix. Fixed a few controls hiding text. Additions to the Notes/Todo features. 7.0.7.3 BETA - Storyboard mouse clicks now restricted to the actual cards. Chapters can also be declared 'Todo' or 'Notes'. 7.0.7.2 BETA - you can now declare scenes as 'Todo' or 'Notes'. Right-click the entry in the scene list to set. 7.0.7.1 BETA - use on a backup of your project. Bug fixes, plus a new Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V cut and paste for chapters and scenes. 7.0.7.0 Character/Item/Location list allows tabbing through the toolbar. Fixed character name not updating on the main screen. 7.0.6.9 Fixed not being able to create a Latex export profile. 7.0.6.8 Fixed for inserting and appending scenes not showing in the right place, adding char/loc/item from main screen. 7.0.6.7 Full screen editor with margins mode now makes the margins a more eye-friendly colour. 7.0.6.6 On startup, copies the dictionary files to the user's yWriter appdata folder if they don't already exist there. 7.0.6.5 The return of the User Interface Font Size menu. 7.0.6.4 Fix for adding char/loc/item from the scene window when the custom dictionary does not exist. 7.0.6.3 This version shows a progress indicator when downloading a new version of yWriter. 7.0.6.2 quick fix for chapter drag/drop 7.0.6.1 RELEASE version. See recent change list for new features and bug fixes. 7.0.6.0 BETA rewrote search/replace which now uses the new undo/redo system. Updated 'List all spelling mistakes' so that double-clicking a word in the list then finds it in your project. 7.0.5.9 BETA another collection of small bug fixes for recent betas. 7.0.5.8 BETA removed the option to set the UI font and size. This was interfering with user interface scaling. 7.0.5.7 BETA yet another change to high-dpi/font scaling detection. This one should work. 7.0.5.6 BETA now marks known char/items/locations as you type, if the option is set. Also includes UK and US spelling dictionaries. 7.0.5.5 BETA rewrote the Import Work in Progress feature. 7.0.5.4 BETA fixed various bugs related to char/item/location titles not updating when changed. 7.0.5.4 BETA fixed import work in progress showing raw RTF code (from 7.0.5.2 only) 7.0.5.2 BETA High-DPI aware enabled. Should scale on higher resolution monitors. 7.0.5.1 BETA Fixed the extra space after a non-breaking space. Fixed dragging scene cards around in the storyboard window. 7.0.5.0 BETA Minor bugfixes, and now you can mark 'start of backmatter' in the chapter list. The trash folder also has its own icon. 7.0.4.9 BETA ALL imported RTF files go through the standard RichTextBox first. This should avoid most/all RTF issues in future. 7.0.4.8 BETA Rewrote the Latex exporter routines. Now you can set up profiles. 7.0.4.7 BETA Chinese, Japanese and Korean character sets should work. Plus bugfixes for recent beta versions. 7.0.4.6 BETA some deleted scenes were just hidden by mistake. This version will restore them to the Trash, where you can delete them properly. 7.0.4.5 BETA Fixes for international character sets. Users of double-byte sets (e.g. Chinese) should use plain text editor mode. 7.0.4.4 BETA first release with new Undo/Redo system. Added a plain text editor mode (project settings - RTF tab) 7.0.4.3 BETA switched certain typesetting characters in the YW7 project file from ANSI to Unicode 7.0.4.2 BETA minor bugfix for 7.0.4.1 (scene detail wasn't updating when a chapter was clicked.) 7.0.4.1 BETA Major changes to RTF handling. Highlighting colours extended. Realtime spell checking. 7.0.3.9 BETA Implemented 'backup to ftp' and 'backup to email'. Added an RTF character set selector to the project settings form. 7.0.3.8 BETA see 7.0.3.7 7.0.3.7 BETA More updates to the RTF unicode handling on non-ascii systems. 7.0.3.6 BETA When creating a new scene, the RTF is set to the current system character set and codepage. 7.0.3.5 BETA Moved the description field to the content tab in the scene editor. Can be hidden by dragging the splitter bar. 7.0.3.4 Added 'remove blank lines from all scene content' option. Use with care! 7.0.3.3 Includes help files, Croatian language file, bug fix for registration system 7.0.3.2 Fixed adding an image to a scene, fixed 'remove formatting from all scenes' 7.0.3.0 New option under the Settings menu in the scene editor - support for right-to-left text in the editor. 7.0.2.9 Added a 'paragraph spacing' option to the editor settings drop-down menu. Scene tags show in scene list 7.0.2.8 Wrote a character set translator from RTF to Unicode - hopefully the end of non-ascii character problems. 7.0.2.7 Export scene list now works, and so does Export selected chapter to RTF. Goal/Conflict/Outcome also save properly. 7.0.2.6 Removed the leading blank line when importing proofed chapters. Repaired Unicode character handling. 7.0.2.5 The lack of a Custom dictionary would prevent spell check from highlighting errors. Now fixed. 7.0.2.4 Added more code to handle italics/bold/formatting when a scene has been 'improved' by an external editor. 7.0.2.3 Recompiled with updated RTF converter libraries. 7.0.2.2 Fix an occasional 'indexing error' bug (This was caused by files in the trash folder) 7.0.2.1 Fix for 'smart' left and right quotes disappearing. 7.0.1.8 Double-clicking in the description field (main screen) saves the description before opening the relevant scene 7.0.1.7 Fix for loading dictionaries, which was failing on some systems 7.0.1.6 Added support for yet another style of RTF unicode formatting. 7.0.1.5 Added a 'Trash' chapter. When you delete scenes, they'll be moved here instead of vanishing. 7.0.1.5 Added back the languages, and I think I've fixed load/save of non-ascii text in the scene editor. 7.0.1.4 Added a new system-wide setting for an include folder (Tools - yWriter Settings). 7.0.1.3 Enabled the one-day writing report, and the daily word count report. Bug fix for newly-added chapter sorting. 7.0.1.2 Improved the way spelling dictionaries are loaded. ALL 'txt' files in the dict folder are now read in. 7.0.1.1 You can avoid loading sets of dictionary files by adding the word 'ignore' to the relevant sub-folder. 7.0.1.0 Re-added 'Open with external editor' 7.0.0.9 On first run, yWriter7 now offers to import your yWriter6 or yWriter5 settings 7.0.0.8 Added a comprehensive sample project with many advanced examples. See the Help dropdown on the main screen. 7.0.0.7 Better support for international character sets when loading yw5/yw6 projects. 7.0.0.6 More font scaling fixes on several forms throughout the program. 7.0.0.5 Started work on some font scaling issues with various forms. 7.0.0.4 Added a /Preset commandline switch. (See ebook export help in menu). Also display word in scene from word list. 7.0.0.3 Improved YW5 import, added a 'find in scene' option to the 'List of all words' screen. 7.0.0.2 Removed some unnecessary files from the distribution package 7.0.0.1 First beta test release. NOT FOR LIVE USE! EXPECT BUGS!