The initial size of the puzzle window and the clue editor have been modified to fit better on your screen. The size and positioning of the clue answer number has been changed to look nicer. Rearranged the order of the buttons on the 'Clue' tab of the puzzle editor to hopefully be more intuitive to first time users.
You no longer need to press Make Puzzle to see the full change. Changing the case of a puzzle now has a much more immediate effect. Pressing 'Shift-Tab' on the 'Clue' tab of the Puzzle Editor, now will cycle through the fields on that tab in the opposite order.
Added a menu item for making the puzzle, with a corresponding shortcut (Mac Command M / Windows Ctrl M) Previously it would draw circles around individual letters of the answer, making it harder to see the answers especially if many words were clustered close together. Show answers in word searches now draws a rounded rectangle around the word.
Improved the visibility of letters in the word search, when viewed on a background other than white, especially picture backgrounds. Now doesn't reserve any space for the title, if no title is present. Wastes less space between the last title and the puzzle. Just place it in the same folder as Crosswordz. You can use a file named "Crosswordz Stationery.cwz" as well as the older "Crosswordz Stationery.txt" as your default stationery. You will be forced to do a SaveAs instead of a Save.
Crosswordz Default stationery is no longer as easy to overwrite. The old keys will continue to work, and as such Sol Robots will not issue new keys to existing customers.
New Registration keys consist of a name, and a Serial #. Registration has been simplified, in preparation for a more automatic sales process. Words that were backwards in a word search puzzle, will now remain backwards if you open the puzzle again. It is now possible to create word search puzzles that have words against the top and left side. A "Load Defaults" button has been added to the languages dialog. It is much less likely to have a problem placing words where they were saved. Crosswordz now does a much better job loading puzzles. Crosswordz will still try to use the default 20x20 block size it always has, but if there isn't enough room it will scale the block size down as needed. Crosswordz puzzles are no longer limited to 27/30. Crosswordz will automatically scale its output to fit the new format. Adjust Paper size, orientation, margins at will. You can print on more than just Portrait US Letter. The registration dialog now works with drag and drop, to make registration simpler. The registration dialog no longer limits typing to 22 characters, allowing longer names. Crosswordz's title editor is now larger to allow more space for editing titles. Crosswordz's titles now have color support. All this is done using the new Fonts Window. Crosswordz now supports changing the font, font size, color, and other attributes of clues and answers. Changes to the active language are saved even when changed from the Active Fixed an embarassing "Out of Bounds Exception" that would occur when Crosswordz didn't find a preferences file. The Fonts Window now has a resize widget. Disabled Page Setup options for OS 9, and Windows since they weren't working Crosswordz now works again on OS 9, and hopefully windows (haven't tested, my test machine is currently not working). English Word Search letters now capitalized by default again. OS X version no longer crashes if it reads a crosswordz file saved with a Windows or Classic Mac version of Crosswordz of 2.3.5 and up. Starting New without the stationery file now restores the default text sizes. Loads the Crosswordz stationery file (namely "Crosswordz Stationery.cwz" or "Crosswordz Stationery.txt"), after selecting "New." as well as when first starting Crosswordz. Fixed a problem where it wouldn't load in the font name and size for titles of saved puzzles. Significantly less flicker on OS 9 and windows than versions 2.4 or 2.4.1, and font and style changes are immediately updated in the puzzle. Much faster editing than version 2.4 or 2.4.1 Word Searches now print twice as fast as they did previously (for the same puzzle size), if no backdrop color, or picture is specified. Now automatically recovers from setting the font size to 0. It will be a bit messy, but it won't crash. No longer crashes if the size specified makes a clue too large to fit on one page. Now waits 2 seconds before changing the size in the size editor of the "Fonts" window. Up to 5 minutes, it now easily takes under 5 seconds.
The Mac OS X version spools printing much faster than it used to, especially word search printing.