What’s New
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Revision Mode! [PRO] Track your changes in different colors, complete with stars in the margin. The industry standard for screenplays now available for all documents.
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Custom Themes! Build your own themes using our new Theme Builder. You can rename, delete, or share themes from the new Themes Preferences panel.
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Drag and Drop Navigator! Reorder your scenes, sections and other elements right in the Navigator.
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Title Pages in all Templates We’ve added Title Pages to all templates. This is especially useful for Manuscripts, which can now be made submission-ready entirely in Highland 2.
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Printable Gender Analysis Reports [PRO] Want to share your script’s Gender breakdown with others? Now you can turn the Gender Analysis Report into a great-looking PDF.
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Word Analysis [PRO] See which words you’re using most frequently, which words aren’t in the dictionary, which words are different between the US and the UK, and even which adverbs you’re using.
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Sample Documents Confused about how Highland 2 works? Looking for a starting point to build a document? Pick one from our built-in samples.
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Convert to Narrated Script Convert a Screenplay into a Narrated Script, which translates your document into a speakable format perfect for Apple’s built-in voiceover tools.
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“What’s New” Window Never miss a feature update! We’ll let you know when we fix or add cool things to the app.
Improvements
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UI Refinements We’ve tweaked quite a bit, including new chromeless windows and a redesigned Launch screen..
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Video Tutorials Learn how to use all of Highland 2’s features with new videos accessible from the Launch screen.
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Interruptible Sprints Sometimes you need to bail on a Sprint early. Highland 2.5 records your progress up to that point, so you don’t have to worry about losing progress.
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Custom alignments in HEADER and FOOTER Love a template, but need more control over Headers and Footers? You can now add forced alignment markup to Headers and Footers.
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New Manuscript options Highland 2.5 can automatically pad section headings and remove the indentation from the first paragraph of a section. Manuscript is also now available in Basic.
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Simplified Cheat Sheet We’ve merged the Fountain and Markdown Cheat Sheets to create a single reference for writers. It now works offline as well.
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Superscripts Need to throw in some algebra? We’ve got you covered. Just use the caret notation to create superscripts, e.g. a^2 + b^2 = c^2. [Shoutout to Pythagoras]
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Better Dual Dialogue Formatting We’ve tweaked how dual dialogue is printed in Screenplay PDFs. We’ve also improved character highlighting of dual dialogue, both in the Editor and the Preview.
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Forced Page Break behavior more consistent Forced Page Break markup now always means “start on the next page,” resulting in fewer blank pages. (If you want to insert a blank page, you can still do so with two forced page breaks.)
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Table of Contents links in PDFs For PDFs, Table of Contents creates links within the document. Handy!
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Links in Script templates Script templates now support links in the form of title.
Bug Fixes
- Navigator jumping to the top when you add text to the bottom of your document
- Bin selection when deleting a Bin item
- Final Draft 11 support for tagged Character Cues
- Splitting term lists across pages
- Using Dropbox as a Backups folder should work more consistently
- Automatic list numbering is more reliable
- Better handling of underscores within words (e.g. this_and_that)
- Removed font size changes via the pinch gesture
- Highland 2 will remember the PDF options
- Save the Page Setup settings (paper size, etc) with a document. This means if you set a document to A4 you won’t have to set it again