Screepub 0.11.1

Screepub 0.11.1

Your Kindle file is ready almost instantly, with nothing else to install.

Kindles over USB, faster

• Screepub makes the Kindle file itself. Copying to a Kindle over USB
  used to need Calibre, and waited on it to start every time. Now Screepub
  writes the file in a fraction of a second, with nothing installed. It is
  marked Beta.
• Calibre is only for the best-layout file. With Calibre, its KFX
  plugin and Kindle Previewer installed, modern Kindles still get KFX.
  Emailing to Kindle needs no tools at all.

Good to know

• The new Kindle file reads back whole in two independent e-book readers,
  but hasn't been opened on a real Kindle yet. Tell us how it goes.
• Kindles from before 2012 can't read it. Use Save a file, then MOBI.
• Kindle files Calibre made for your books are rebuilt once, the next time
  you send each one.

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Mac: download Screepub-macOS.dmg (notarized, for Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later), open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click. Its SHA-256 is in SHA256SUMS-app.

Command-line tool for macOS, SHA-256:

003a0d991e712d5bfa74e784da38f2dd792b7765c25a277e25770a1aa6d43c0f  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.10.0

Screepub 0.10.0

Screepub now needs a Mac with Apple silicon: on an Intel Mac, 0.9.0 is the last version, and it keeps working. The pictures in your script now come through into the book.

Your script's pictures, in the book

• Storyboards and photos stay where they sat. Panels, reference
  photos and lookbook pages used to be dropped, leaving only the text
  around them. Now they appear in place. Turn off Pictures from the
  script in Settings for a smaller file.
• A designed title page becomes the cover. A full-page title card at
  the front now shows as the book's cover in your library, instead of a
  plain one. Turn off Title card as the cover to keep it as the first
  page.
• Saved Fountain files are clean. A Fountain file you saved for a
  screenwriting app used to carry Screepub's own hidden notes. Now it
  leaves them behind.

Good to know

• Pictures, the cover, FDX files, Eject on Windows and Linux, and the
  device report buttons are marked Beta: they work in our tests, but
  haven't been tried widely yet. Tell us how it goes.
• Most e-ink screens are greyscale, so a color picture reads as black and
  white. The Kindle file Screepub makes without Calibre leaves pictures out
  for now.
• On an Intel Mac with the older Mac app, choose Not Now when this update
  is offered: it will not open there. Download Screepub 0.9.0 from its
  release page instead.

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Mac: download Screepub-macOS.dmg (notarized, for Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later), open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click. Its SHA-256 is in SHA256SUMS-app.

Command-line tool for macOS, SHA-256:

d3a0f5e79083427b1f8070ed9619400f38efc9cf2b4d03ad41adaa2e503037f1  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.9.0

Screepub 0.9.0

Telling us about a device now reaches the internet, and only when you press the button. Sending starts right where your book appears, and a script PDF can become a script you edit again.

Convert, then send, on one page

• Your book and your reader, side by side. The Send tab is gone.
  When a script converts, its first page appears beside your reader,
  asked once and remembered. A plugged-in Kindle gets one button that
  copies the right file.
• Eject your reader after a copy. After copying over USB, the
  button becomes Eject Kindle, so you can unplug safely without a
  trip to the Finder.
• Get the script back to edit. Under Other ways, Save a file
  now offers FDX for Final Draft and most screenwriting apps, beside
  Fountain. It is rebuilt from the PDF's pages, so revision colors and
  exact page breaks stay behind.
• The first page types itself out while you wait. It is on by
  default. Turn off Animate the page in Settings if you'd rather not
  watch. Typewriter sounds adds key clicks, and starts off.

Good to know

• My device isn't here and the It worked and It did not work
  answers send what you typed or chose, the app version and your system
  to a service that keeps only counts and the day.
• Eject on Windows and Linux, and FDX files in screenwriting apps,
  haven't been tried on a real reader or app yet.

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Mac: download Screepub-macOS.dmg (notarized, universal, macOS 13 or later), open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click. Its SHA-256 is in SHA256SUMS-app.

Command-line tool for macOS, SHA-256:

5a1612cd7d2ef26ccacac19a41ef56550c3e238299889d30ef8663f9a54bf655  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
9e54a468124f1dd634f2033f1358678b3e19e3510418733b35f8e02a9195f4bc  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.8.0

Screepub 0.8.0

There is one Screepub for Mac now, and it updates itself.

One app on your Mac

• The older Mac app becomes the new one. If you use it with its
  update check on, it installs the new app in its own place and opens
  it. Your books are untouched.
• One download for every Mac. Screepub-macOS.dmg works on Apple
  Silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 13 or later.

If you used Screepub Desktop

• It updates into the same app. A few things happen once: it asks
  again whether to check for updates, macOS asks again to reach your
  reader the first time you copy to it, and Finder and the Dock still say
  Screepub Desktop until you rename it. If you had both apps, delete
  Screepub Desktop.

Good to know

• Settings you tuned for a script in the older Mac app start from the
  defaults once. Your books are untouched.
• The new app has no Cancel during a conversion. Most scripts finish in
  seconds.
• Homebrew no longer installs the Mac app; download it instead. The
  command-line converter stays: brew install --formula ssandweiss/tap/screepub.

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Mac: download Screepub-macOS.dmg (notarized, universal, macOS 13 or later), open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click. Its SHA-256 is in SHA256SUMS-app.

Command-line tool for macOS, SHA-256:

45ff1a79fc6c48c239259f2da0292f5b89406e11295d73314fdaab124a774e6f  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
0626c0fd3520086c8e998bd9bf7325864b44a6ec5c8b93bf3c12ac523295cd31  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.7.5

Screepub 0.7.5

Report a bug no longer puts your folder or file names in the public page it opens. This release makes copying, updating and Kindle files harder to break.

Your books are safer

• A book survives being unplugged right after a copy. Unplugging
  the moment a copy finished could leave a cut-off book under the
  book's own name. Now the new copy is fully written before it replaces
  the old one.
• Kindle files can't hang forever. Building one with Calibre or
  Kindle Previewer could sit there indefinitely. Now it gives up after
  ten minutes and says so.
• Updates finish cleanly. After installing, the window kept working
  against the new version until it restarted, which could fail in odd
  ways. Now it waits for running work, then restarts, offering Restart
  now after two minutes. A harmless cleanup hiccup no longer calls a
  good update failed.

Fixed in the window

• Convert it again converts again. It used to take you to the
  Convert page showing the same result, with no way to convert.
• Long titles and file paths stay inside their boxes. They used to
  run off the edge.
• The scene list on Read is one Tab stop. Tab used to visit every
  scene before the script. Now the up and down arrows move between
  scenes.

Good to know

• Screepub needs macOS 13 or later, as it always has. On an older Mac it
  used to open and then fail every conversion. Now the Mac says so before
  it opens.

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Notarized universal build for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Install: download Screepub-macOS.dmg, open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click.

SHA-256:

e2263db5d27b1cff8fa0e83863113c9dc56de8d07a8034d5259b8dc3a9c0aab8  Screepub-macOS.dmg
c3bfd634263a9c8f8a1bf22531e9421ff05be07798b11196c5d39ef78ba7c8a0  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
dc2dc055248cc86756f02c59ad672e470eceb42bfb177f7f8df22b5e98132b4b  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.7.4

Screepub 0.7.4

The window makes use of a wide screen. Thinner margins, the scene list beside the script, and a Settings preview you can actually read.

Room to read and tune

• The page fills a wide window. It used to stop at a column in
  the middle, with wide empty margins and the brads drifting toward the
  center. Now it runs nearly edge to edge, and the brads stay near the
  left edge, the way the holes sit on a letter page. New windows open at
  1280 by 800.
• The scene list sits beside the script. On Read, it used to slide
  out over the left margin, on top of the brads. Now it has a column of
  its own, and showing or hiding it never moves the script.
• A bigger Settings preview. It is about twice as wide, runs the
  height of the window, and stays put while you scroll through the
  settings. Each group of settings sits in its own box.

Good to know

• Under 900 wide the window keeps its narrow layout: the scene list goes
  above the script, and the preview below the settings.

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Notarized universal build for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Install: download Screepub-macOS.dmg, open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click.

SHA-256:

7cf8106a285c5910e068f4867740fca58987be8523f874bba0ab9f5f76da26da  Screepub-macOS.dmg
32c98a77a5074005d826fb44bed91f996da860f44adeac45b3736e4b8dee058f  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
006e60b0e1463901ab99e6e388b1c855599d2937129dea8c63f277a26fee94ac  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.7.3

Screepub 0.7.3

The window can now open Amazon's and Calibre's web pages and fetch one Calibre plugin, each only when you press its button. It sends a script every way the Mac app does, and finishes its own updates.

The window catches up with the Mac app

• Send a script anywhere from the Send page. It used to copy
  only to a reader plugged in over USB. Now it also adds the book to Apple
  Books, hands it to Amazon's Send to Kindle, attaches it to an email, or
  saves a copy where you choose.
• The best Kindle file, set up and ready. On a Mac or Windows PC, the
  Send page checks for the three free tools that build it, and
  installs the KFX plugin for you. When you send to a Kindle, the file now
  builds as the page opens, instead of seeming stuck for half a minute.
• Your own starting point, and your own folder. Use these for new
  scripts, on the Settings page, makes one script's settings the start
  for every PDF you convert next. Change… on the Convert page picks
  where books are saved.

Fixed in the window

• Updates restart Screepub for you. They used to install quietly and
  wait for you to quit and reopen. Now Update to appears beside the
  version stamp. Click it, and Screepub installs, waits for any work in
  progress, and reopens. The daily-check switch also stops looking off
  after every restart.
• You can drag the window. On a Mac it has no title bar, so there
  was nowhere to grab it. Drag the empty strip along its top.
• Side-by-side dialogue switches back on. Once a script showed two
  characters talking at once one after the other, switching back did
  nothing.

Good to know

• Updating from 0.7.2 still ends with a quit and reopen, because 0.7.2
  can't restart itself.
• Amazon silently drops an emailed book unless it comes from an address on
  your approved list. The email row's Open Amazon's page opens the
  page that holds it.

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Notarized universal build for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Install: download Screepub-macOS.dmg, open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click.

SHA-256:

2257419397e0b7767c34573da174c14b13faf6e8d17c87bca2715c8f3f93c434  Screepub-macOS.dmg
695cfe0bfc8fb3fbcb42156182a7620ba477010412f0928c4e2d6a17a5298036  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
69c1ef49d91f2862d3a04bfc6c0c1686341ee8037b694828d1acbe56285bb587  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.7.2

Screepub 0.7.2

The Linux and Windows downloads keep the same names from now on.

Downloads that stay put

• The Linux and Windows files have names that won't change. They used
  to carry the version number, like Screepub-0.7.1-setup.exe, so a saved
  link broke at the next release. They are now Screepub-linux-amd64.deb,
  Screepub-linux-x86_64.rpm and Screepub-windows-x64-setup.exe, at
  every release.

Good to know

• If your Mac runs 0.7.1's window with updates switched on, this is the
  first release it can install for itself. It asks before installing, and
  afterwards you quit and reopen.

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Notarized universal build for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Install: download Screepub-macOS.dmg, open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click.

SHA-256:

3e287895a21c97dbb2d4ed5af8946f9bf7348120424e7d590a1bb811aff017c4  Screepub-macOS.dmg
bcbc74786f71014b77905f6a7747e9b8c780d8b2733eaea838573d3b5fafc607  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
1da858d2d315992060195002c21bd26fa55d5b20dbf7956d0655a8840c753672  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.7.1

Screepub 0.7.1

The window can now look for a newer Screepub, and only if you switch it on. This is 0.7.0, complete: that release went out without the window's downloads, because of a signing mistake on our side.

The window does more of what the Mac app does

• Screepub can tell you when a newer version exists. Open the version
  stamp at the foot of the page and, under Updates, turn on Look for a
  new version once a day. Off by default, and nothing is sent but the
  request itself. Installing swaps the app in place, then you quit and
  reopen. macOS only for now.
• Page numbers are on by default, in both apps. They were off because
  we called them furniture. They are the script's coordinate system: a
  note that says "the beat on 42 is late" needs page 42 to exist. Turn off
  The PDF's page numbers in Settings for a cleaner page.
• Show in Finder. The finished book used to be a path printed on
  screen. The result screen now reveals it, selected. On Windows the
  button says Show in File Explorer.
• A refused file offers to report itself. When a file is not a
  screenplay Screepub can read, the failure screen now opens a pre-filled
  bug report on GitHub, carrying what went wrong.

Fixed for the Mac

• The window's Mac download opens without a warning. 0.6.0's
  Screepub-Desktop-macOS-universal.dmg was signed but not notarized, so
  macOS refused to open it. This one is notarized, and the release checks
  it before publishing.

Good to know

• This is the first version that can update itself, so 0.6.0's window
  will not hear about it. Download this one by hand, and the next can
  arrive on its own.
• The update switch is absent on Linux and Windows for now.
• Screepub-macOS.dmg is still the Mac app we support. The window's
  updater updates only the window.

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Notarized universal build for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Install: download Screepub-macOS.dmg, open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click.

SHA-256:

4a25c6928db59deed6ceb254992e1058c0669d520ce57a03819c45cafd5acf30  Screepub-macOS.dmg
4678b2e8b857428f69c6f88129900336f5952f28fd5d972d674cd0463b8193c7  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
f373d14b2a0cc199cf3108fedb225ff267a55a783357fe6d07b84ee04de537bc  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz

Screepub 0.7.0

Screepub 0.7.0

The window can now look for a newer Screepub, and only if you switch it on. This release is about the window catching up with the Mac app, and learning to update itself.

The window does more of what the Mac app does

• Screepub can tell you when a newer version exists. Open the version
  stamp at the foot of the page and, under Updates, turn on Look for a
  new version once a day. Off by default, and nothing is sent but the
  request itself. Installing swaps the app in place, then you quit and
  reopen. macOS only for now.
• Page numbers are on by default, in both apps. They were off because
  we called them furniture. They are the script's coordinate system: a
  note that says "the beat on 42 is late" needs page 42 to exist. Turn off
  The PDF's page numbers in Settings for a cleaner page.
• Show in Finder. The finished book used to be a path printed on
  screen. The result screen now reveals it, selected. On Windows the
  button says Show in File Explorer.
• A refused file offers to report itself. When a file is not a
  screenplay Screepub can read, the failure screen now opens a pre-filled
  bug report on GitHub, carrying what went wrong.

Fixed for the Mac

• The window's Mac download opens without a warning. 0.6.0's
  Screepub-Desktop-macOS-universal.dmg was signed but not notarized, so
  macOS refused to open it. This one is notarized, and the release checks
  it before publishing.

Good to know

• This is the first version that can update itself, so 0.6.0's window
  will not hear about it. Download this one by hand, and the next can
  arrive on its own.
• The update switch is absent on Linux and Windows for now.
• Screepub-macOS.dmg is still the Mac app we support. The window's
  updater updates only the window.

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Notarized universal build for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Install: download Screepub-macOS.dmg, open it, drag Screepub to Applications, and double-click.

SHA-256:

13c994c813c5b59766ced84b29c23531f92aa150178bd16abfa498758c53ed44  Screepub-macOS.dmg
0a532efa7952ba93e44a14d87a7df5d7dba8ed4886efb87c38549c931dd254d2  screepub-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz
513903f291b25e326e6393a43f33db2f674e21402699a29b66dcbd199876185b  screepub-cli-macos-x64.tar.gz