Hello everyone!

… and we’re moving along in our little “Interface Gems”:

Lock Documents

Ever wanted to put a seal on a document so you don’t edit it by accident? That’s exactly what the Document Lock is for. You can find it on the right bottom of the Control Panel:

Whenever you close the lock, you can neither edit this Document anymore in the Editor nor edit the Notes. It’s read-only. Again, to unlock it, click on the lock again.

Read you soon!

Götz

Hello World!

… and here comes another one! This time I’ll show you two neat features that are just one button big, so you might not have noticed it yet in the Ulysses interface.

Preview Zoom and Notes Switcher

You probably all know about the preview of the your Documents and Notes on the left panel: select a Document in the Browser on the top and a small preview is shown below. If that preview should ever be too small for your, you can always enlarge the preview with the arrows button on the top right:

Click on the button again, and the preview size is back to normal.

The Notes Preview doesn’t have a zoom, but a switcher. By default, the Document Notes are displayed in the preview. If you press the switcher on the right top of the Notes Preview (see Screenshot below), the preview rotates in the order Notes – Project Notes – Excerpt.

That’s it for today. Hope you enjoyed it!

Götz

Hello everyone!

After a rather long break we’re back to deliver you some more gems of Ulysses. Let me start with a feature that gets your Great Novel down to paper:

Printing in Ulysses

Personally I love to print out my writings so I can proof-read them on train rides or other places I don’t have a Mac at hand. One way to print your documents is to export your documents (see our third Screencast on Exporting) and open the exported document in your favorite viewer or editor.

The thing is, sometimes you just want a quick printout, nothing too fancy, or want your Styles & Markers included in the printout. Well, Ulysses has a solution for that as well. You can always send your currently open Document to your printer. Please notice that the features I’m going to describe were mostly introduced in version 1.6, so if you don’t have that version for some reason, printing is another great reason to upgrade.

Printing itself is very easy, simply go to Documents > Print. You can either print the Document or the Notes separately (if you want to combine them when printing, you’d have to export the Document first (for instance to the PDF format) and insert the Notes). When you click on Print Document or Print Notes, you’re presented with a sheet like you can see below.

In the printer settings you can set Ulysses to print the text according to the Norm Page Settings or just to use the complete page. When you use the first setting, the number of characters per line and the number of lines per pages are both limited. You can always adjust these numbers in the Preferences under Counting > Norm Page.

And while we’re in the Preferences, let me show you show to customize the look of your printout like you want. In Interfaces, there is a section called Printing. Here you can not only set the font style for the text, but also alter the look of the Styles and Markers, because not everything that looks good on the screen has to look good on paper.

That’s it for now… hope you liked it.

Götz

Hey everyone,

I’d just like to let you know that we just finished our fourth Screencast for Ulysses. After we covered the basic features and concepts of Ulysses in the first three Screencasts, we’re now moving on to more advanced features that make working on your projects much easier. We’ll show you how you can not only Search & Replace texts, but also Styles and Markers, you’ll get to know Project Notes and the Text Trash, then we get into the Fullscreen Modes and finally we’ll show you how you can backup your projects automatically and how to customize your Ulysses interface so that it’ll suit your needs. We hope you enjoy it!

Have fun!

Götz

Happy new year, y’all!

There are big news swirling in the air. At the end of this year, the beloved Blue-Tec we once had will be gone. There will be a new Version – 3.0 if you want. We will have a new name, new looks, new power, new products and go to a new platform (you might guess what). Details will follow. But it would be quite funny to hear your guesses ;-)

Have fun,
Max