What's new in Comic Life 3.5.21 (v36998)
Sep 3, 2022
- Fixed a bug that caused user interface layout issues in latest Windows OS.
- Fixed an issue with saving the script editor visibility.
New in Comic Life 3.5.20 (v36979) (Apr 5, 2022)
- Fixed a layout regression with large fonts
New in Comic Life 3.5.19 (v36965) (Mar 5, 2022)
- Fixed a bug when aligning extension balloons
- Fixed a crashing bug when browsing huge image files
- Fixed an image pasting bug from apps like Paint
- Fixed a bug where the app could freeze when resizing balloons
- Fixed a CPU utilization issue
- Fixed an issue checking for available updates
New in Comic Life 3.5.18 (v36778) (Nov 16, 2020)
- Fixed issue when exporting comics to filenames with accented characters
- Fixed issue when duplicating groups of elements
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.17 (v36700) (Jul 28, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Added line spacing control to Text inspector
- Added space above the first page for easier editing
- Added feature to distribute multiple elements evenly horizontally and vertically
- Added keyboard shortcuts for Bring Forward/Send Backward
- Restored “Invisi-panel” and “No Frame” styles in Blank (with Styles) template
- Restored missing help pages
- Fixed a text layout issue that would wrap by splitting words when using some fonts
- Fixed ruler guide dragging issue
- Fixed element well hidden setting on document re-open
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.14 (v36359) (Jan 17, 2020)
New in Comic Life 3.5.13 (v36302) (Nov 25, 2019)
- Added “Preview Compatibility Mode” to Options to address black camera preview issue
New in Comic Life 3.5.11 (v36265) (Nov 1, 2019)
- Fixed a random crash on launch
- Fixed a crash when reordering page from imported comic
- Fixed a crash in the halftone inspector
- Corrected ordering of photos in browser
- Improved snap to grid accuracy
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.9 (v35475) (Sep 14, 2018)
- Template categories are properly sorted once more
New in Comic Life 3.5.6 (v35018) (Dec 15, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Font handling enhancements
New in Comic Life 3.5.5 (v34135) (Feb 7, 2017)
- Image duplication issue with Instant Alpha fixed
New in Comic Life 3.5.4 (v34081) (Feb 2, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Crash when processing BMP images fixed
- PDF export compatibility improvements
- Windows now maximize correctly
- Performance improvement when using full page halftone fills
- Menus now correctly sized when using software filtering
- Windows 10 now correctly identified in Bug and Crash reports
- “Reveal Image File” now available in context menu when external image is selected
- Other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.5.2 (Apr 27, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Selection of images with transparency now works reliably
- Master page feature is functioning correctly again
- Sample script English keywords now function in all localizations
- Performance improvements for large scripts
- DirectX 9.0c is no longer part of the install
- Rafika font issues resolved
New in Comic Life 3.5.1 (Mar 24, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Fixed the fill control in the format bar
- Grouped items can now be freely resized
New in Comic Life 3.5 (Mar 21, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Lots of beautiful new templates
- New full-color halftone fill option
- Script text now replaces text in templates
- And many other improvements and fixes
New in Comic Life 3.1.3 (Nov 24, 2015)
- Fixed a crashing Explorer bug with networked user directories
- Grid display is now correctly oriented on landscape pages
New in Comic Life 3.1.2 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Fixed a crashing bug with video capture and multiple document windows
- Copy/pasting characters from the Character Map now works
- User accounts with accented characters now work as expected
- Page and Styles pane is now restored as expected
- Improved text layout within thought balloons
- Significantly reduced app size due to improved asset compression
New in Comic Life 3.1.1 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.1 (Oct 27, 2015)
- A Script only document can now be saved as a Template
- Added the ability to scroll up or down when moving pages in the ‘Page Overview’
- ‘Lettering’ now supports letters with accents/umlauts
- Opening a user created template, no longer opens the ‘Script Editor’ view
- The Script is now being printed when selected via ‘Print…’ menu
- Improved crash reporting on Windows
- Additional bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.8 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Fixed bug that forced extension balloons to be the same type as the primary balloon
New in Comic Life 3.0.7 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Fixed crashes when exporting large images
- Fixed problems selecting new fonts
- Other minor fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.6 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Major localization update – including new support for Portuguese!
- JPEG exports now include correct DPI information
- Missing Japanese characters during registration bug fixed
- One-time graphics card capability check routine added
- Added “Zoom to Fit” to the toolbar
- Check spelling as you type preference is now maintained
- Custom script tab settings are now restored on open
- Fixed an issue where snap to grid would not always align perfectly
- Other fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.5 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Improved handling of images from photo library
- Eliminated thin lines drawn over the comic at certain zoom levels
- Improved handling of embedded elements when improving older comics
- Other fixes and stability improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.4 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Dramatic improvement in app responsiveness
- Improved compatibility when opening files created with Comic Life 1
- Fixed a crash when resizing text elements
- Fixed a bug when copy/pasting text from libreoffice
- And other fixes and improvements
New in Comic Life 3.0.3 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Integrated script editor with SmartScript™ text processing, including dedicated script templates
- Instant alpha tool – for quickly knocking out the background of images
- Balloon variety picker
- Balloon tail thickness selector
- Precision balloon tail control including connecting tails
- 17 advanced parametric image filters, including
- Rotoscope, Paintoscope, Hatched, Sketched, Smooth, Pen, Retro and more.
- Find & Replace – great for quickly changing a characters name
- 191 built-in creative fill options including speedlines, halftones, textures and tiles
- 11 stroke types from clean lines to scratchy pens
- 16 page texture overlays
- 3D lettering option for big, blocky comic titles
- Smart alignment guides
- Master page for repeating design elements
- Two-up page view, including facing pages
- Opacity controls for balloons (including panels, captions and shapes)
- Hideable element well
- Blur image adjustment
- Bezier controls for warping lettering
- Text paste and match style
- Element grouping
- Rulers with user-settable guidelines
New in Comic Life 1.3.6 Build 71 (Jan 23, 2009)
- If a file is incomplete (for example the computer was turned off during a save), Comic Life will try to open the file with a warning message
- Saving now replaces the original file once successfully completed
- Improved compatibility when opening up Comic Life files created on a Mac
- The default camera device used in the "Capture" tab can now be changed (double click on the video view and a 'Video Source' dialog will show up, if supported.)
- Explorer view now remembers the last folder viewed
- Only Image files are now shown in the Explorer view
- Fixed redraw issues when using "Undo"
- Improved stability when browsing photos on a Mapped Network Drive
- Fixed a stability issue sometimes caused by resizing multiple items
- Moving an image out of a panel, saving and then closing the document no longer brings up a crash dialogue
- General stability improvements