Do you evvr mispel words? We do. That is why we are excited to announce ScreenSteps 1.2 beta with…SPELL CHECKING! Sorry it took so long but it is finally here.

You can download the public beta here. Here is a quick overview of the other features that are included in this release:

PDF Improvements

You can now add a custom logo and footer to your PDF documents. You can also add PDF author information. This can all be done in the preferences screen.

Step titles are now added as bookmarks to PDF files.

Capture Palette

ScreenSteps now includes a new Capture Palette. The Capture Palette will float on top of other applications making it much easier to capture images for ScreenSteps lessons.

Animated GIFs ScreenSteps will now leave animated GIFs intact when exporting to HTML.

Read the release notes for more information about other features and fixes.

ScreenSteps Docs Beta 8

We have also made some minor enhancements to ScreenSteps Docs. The main improvement here is that file paths in a project are stored relatively, making it easier to move projects around.

You can read about the other enhancements here.

You can download the new beta of ScreenSteps Docs here.

Today (and today only) you can get ScreenSteps for half off at www.macupdate.com. The price for today is $19.99 (we think that is quite a deal). Click here to go to the promotion.

ScreenSteps is once again a featured download at apple.com/downloads.

ScreenSteps has been updated to 1.1.1. This fixes a few bugs we found in the last release including:

• Copying frames from QuickTime movies in Mac OS X now works
• "Open last opened project" preference now works
• Exporting of certain Swedish characters has been corrected
• A bug introduced by closing the project window in Mac OS X by clicking on the red circle has been corrected
• Resizing of circles and rectangles that had no borders now works correctly

This update is available to all registered users of ScreenSteps. You can download it here.

Last week we launched ScreenSteps 1.1 and three new websites. Needless to say, it was a little busy. I will try to sum things up.

ScreenSteps 1.1 The biggest changes are in the image editor. We have added the following tools:

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Sequence Tool: This tool allows you to quickly add numbers to an image. View a lesson on how it works.

    <li>Line Tool: Draw lines and arrows on images.</li>

    <li>Annotation Inspector: The new annotation inspector allows you add fills to rectangles and circles and adjust their opacity.</li>

Additional improvements include a new UI for the image capture section and the ability to drag re-order steps.

ScreenSteps 1.1 is a free download for all registered users of ScreenSteps. You can download it here.

New Sites

We also launched three new sites last week:

• New Blue Mango Site
• ScreenSteps
• MediaNotes

We felt that splitting MediaNotes and ScreenSteps into their own sites would help clarify and simplify the information we were presenting. It was amazing how much easier the sites were to put together once we broke them up.