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Version 1, Build 10A (v1.0)
Released on October 1, 2021
Internal for SCJ use only.

What's new

  • Dragging & dropping a Word doc onto the SCJ Dock icon places that story directly on the active (currently viewed) page of the magazine design in InDesign. It's an incredible time saver. The right text frame is automatically selected, the placed text from Word is formatted and typeset in SCJ style using the guide's built-in paragraph styles, and the story is reflowed through all linked text frames, across any number of pages — it's all automatic.
  • Finds and suggests SCJ design guides from previous years on your computer if you don’t have the newest ones. If design guide was downloaded before the SCJ Volume incremented, but it's still the newest guide available, it is now still automatically used despite the older SCJ Volume number
  • Quality-of-life improvements to magazine exporter, including sound notifications when export jobs finish, ability to cancel export jobs at the last minute, and clearer options after the export job completes
  • Welcome sound and new message on first run that appears in InDesign, which lets you know that the design guides are successfully installed, and outlines some quick and useful features like the drag-and-drop story placing, visual art placing, and magazine export functions
  • Intelligently knows when the cover illustration is open, not just the magazine design — even if you have InDesign or Illustrator open with other projects, but not SCJ. This makes the experience even smoother than before when you use the app without quitting it
  • Much clearer wording when design guides are updated and older guides already exist on your computer. Functionality remains similar.
  • Directly stream main design guide tutorial video (when available) through Tips
  • Explanation added when app requests access to Documents and Downloads folders (to download design guides, and delete app installer on first run)
  • More reliable on unstable Internet connections
  • Senior designer can delay SCJ Volume from incrementing for the whole team
  • Various optimizations and improved security

Fixed bugs

  • Reliability improvements when placing visual art on the page. Previously, placing an art piece with the app could result in a stroke being applied around the image. And attempting to place an art piece on the right hand page of a spread would often result in nothing happening.
  • On subsequent runs, SCJ InDesign workspace layout wouldn’t always be reapplied properly
  • Running the app in a different user account on the same computer would crash
  • Magazine export function exports all pages even if your InDesign export dialog had select pages chosen, and won’t export without SCJ PDF presets installed
  • If user located a design guide folder manually because it was placed in a non-default location, and then updated it, the app would not use the updated guides until the following run
  • Rare situation where if app was run on one designer's computer, and then transferred and run on a different one, the resulting notice would correctly offer a ‘Reinstall’ option, which wouldn’t proceed due to a bug
  • Rare encounter where the ‘Quit’ button on the ”Your network connection is offline” message wouldn't actually quit the app (this message appears if the user's Internet connection is not working when the app tries to download the design guides)
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