ConstEdit

ConstEdit is a word processor useful for your daily work, and personal needs. It is not a cloud app and is not an online html editor. It runs locally on your pc for better performance, convenience and security, while providing more functionality.

Interoperability. ConstEdit writes documents in the standard internet webpage format (html/htm file extension). You do not have to install any particular software to read the html documents generated from ConstEdit, not even ConstEdit itself. Just your favorite browser will do, in any common computer operating system (not all style formatting properties used in ConstEdit are supported by all web-browsers). Separation of content from presentation/formatting. By making use of external Cascaded Style Sheets CSS, there is no more need to worry about styles formatting while you are editing the document content. E.g. when you insert a new section, the new section is already rendered with the designed style with the correct outline numbering on it; or when you demote a main section to becoming a sub-section, the numbering on the section title is updated immediately and the section is reformatted as a sub-section. User interface. ConstEdit ui is simple and intuitive with multi-tabbed file editing. Section outlining. ConstEdit allows you to visualize and manage the document sections structure easily with drag and drop without doing any cut and paste. Novelists may find this feature particularly useful for designing their storyboards.

Other features: design customized html cascaded stylesheets; Auto-numbering of sections / tables / figures / footnotes; Auto-generation of Table Of Content; Adding comments; Attached audio and video can be played back directly in ConstEdit when the file is opened as read-only, or when opened in any compatible web browser; Spell-checking, auto-correction, auto-capitalization; Auto-save at regular intervals.

What is new in this release:

• The bundled XULRunner is upgraded to v41.0.
• Text on toolbars no longer look blurry and distorted. They are now rendered normally at all application window widths.
• You can now click on the icon at the left hand side of any toolbar to hide it.
• Translate button is removed from the Text toolbar, and placed into the context menu (right-click menu). The Translate Language is set up through a new item in the Settings Menu.
• The title of the current section is now shown in the mouse-over tooltip of the Go-to-section button in the Find And Replace Toolbar.
• In previous versions, there is a limitation that links to resources, which are specified in element inline style properties (e.g. background image), are not converted to relative even though the Use Relative Links checkbox in File Menu is checked. Absolute links are always used for links within inline styles. This limitation is now fixed. Links in inline styles are converted in accordance with the Use Relative Links setting.
• Resizing of objects such as tables, images and figures can now be undone and redone with one single step. Previously, numerous undo or redo steps must be taken in order to revert back to the desired state.
• Bug fixed. The Font Size buttons on Text Toolbar have stopped working since v2.5. They are now replaced by a single Font Size button for you to apply a relative font size to the selected text.
• Several minor bugs are also fixed.
• The User Guide has been updated to reflect all the above changes.
• The End User License Agreement EULA is changed to update on the download link of XULRunner.
• New license fee. Starting from this version, the license fee for using the app for business purposes is revised to US$50 per computer.

What is new in version 2.5.6:

• When starting up from the send-to shortcut generated by the app, the app window did not follow the last window state. The send-to shortcut was incorrectly configured to always maximize. You need to choose the option "Add Shortcut To Send-To" again to rectify the issue. The old shortcut will be overwritten by the newly-generated one.
  
• When "Launch Linked Target" was chosen from the context menu (right-click menu) for a hyperlink, the app used Internet Explorer regardlessly to open the link. The app now uses the default web-browser of the system to open the link instead of hardcoding to using IE.
  
• Several minor bugs are also fixed.
  

What is new in version 2.5.5:

• When starting up from the send-to shortcut generated by the app, the app window did not follow the last window state. The send-to shortcut was incorrectly configured to always maximize. You need to choose the option "Add Shortcut To Send-To" again to rectify the issue. The old shortcut will be overwritten by the newly-generated one.
  
• When "Launch Linked Target" was chosen from the context menu (right-click menu) for a hyperlink, the app used Internet Explorer regardlessly to open the link. The app now uses the default web-browser of the system to open the link instead of hardcoding to using IE.
  
• Several minor bugs are also fixed.
  

What is new in version 2.5.2:

• When starting up from the send-to shortcut generated by the app, the app window did not follow the last window state. The send-to shortcut was incorrectly configured to always maximize. You need to choose the option "Add Shortcut To Send-To" again to rectify the issue. The old shortcut will be overwritten by the newly-generated one.
  
• When "Launch Linked Target" was chosen from the context menu (right-click menu) for a hyperlink, the app used Internet Explorer regardlessly to open the link. The app now uses the default web-browser of the system to open the link instead of hardcoding to using IE.
  
• Several minor bugs are also fixed.
  

What is new in version 2.5.1:

• When starting up from the send-to shortcut generated by the app, the app window did not follow the last window state. The send-to shortcut was incorrectly configured to always maximize. You need to choose the option "Add Shortcut To Send-To" again to rectify the issue. The old shortcut will be overwritten by the newly-generated one.
  
• When "Launch Linked Target" was chosen from the context menu (right-click menu) for a hyperlink, the app used Internet Explorer regardlessly to open the link. The app now uses the default web-browser of the system to open the link instead of hardcoding to using IE.
  
• Several minor bugs are also fixed.
  

What is new in version 2.5:

• Starting from this release, ConstEdit no longer has any dependency on Internet Explorer. ConstEdit now runs on any versions of Windows that have Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 installed. If you are on Windows 7, you may need to download and update to Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 first. If you have Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, the minimum requirement is already satisfied.
  
• ConstEdit is certified to be completely compatible with Windows 10.
  
• The bundled Xulrunner runtime is upgraded from version 31 to 38.0.6.5634 (the same rendering engine as Firefox 38).
  
• Design Html StyleSheet Dialog
• "Import" functions are now done with Xulrunner completely. This is to get rid of the dependency on Internet Explorer.
  
• The dialog initial start-up styles settings have some changes
• The "page-break-inside" property for Figure element is set to "avoid" (do not perform any page break inside the element during printing).
• The "margin" property for Image element is set to "0.1em".
  
• The "page-break-inside" style property item is now enabled for Figure element.
  
• The four bundled css stylesheets (ConstEditCss1~4.css) are changed and regenerated :
• The "page-break-inside" property for Figure element is set to "avoid" (do not perform any page break inside the element during printing).
• The "margin" property for Image element is set to "0.1em".
  
• Fixed a bug where the auto-numbering of sections / figure caption / table caption could not be enabled successfully after the option "Import from Css" or "Import from Scratch" is selected.
  
• Bugs fixed
  
• The app crashed occasionally during start-up when the system was very busy.
• In some situations, after a close file action was performed, the input focus was not put back to the application successfully.
  
• The text that was displayed in the pop-up tooltip of comments were truncated in some cases. The text that is saved with the comments is always correct.
  
• The app was unable to retrieve the right-clicked comment properly in some cases. As a result, the comment was not shown in the context menu. 
• Minor enhancements
  
• The app start-up performance is mildly optimized.
  
• The maximum length of text in a comment is increased from 350 to 500.
• The download link is changed.

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• Increased buffer for undo history.
• Some minor error fixes.
• New download link to get rid of the Google Drive antivirus scanning message, which indicated that ConstEdit exceeds the maximum size that Google can scan.

What is new in version 2.0:

ConstEdit now uses Mozilla XULRunner as the html rendering engine (same as Firefox) instead of IE. The compatibility with older versions of Windows is improved. Performance and usability are enhanced. The user interface has a new modern look. ConstEdit is overhauled both internally and externally in this upgrade.

What is new in version 1.11.2000:

• It is verified that there is no impact of Windows 8.1 Update to ConstEdit.
• ConstEdit is now signed with a VeriSign Certificate. You should not see any Windows SmartScreen warning anymore.
• You can use mid-button click to open and close file tabs.
• Check For Updates function is added.
• Document Properties dialog is enhanced. You can set the document Html Title directly within the dialog.
• Open Recent Files function is enhanced. You can specify to open any of the chosen files as read-only.
• Relative links are supported, making ConstEdit more suitable for use in a company environment.
• Minor cosmetic changes.
• Bug fixes.

Requirements:

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or above, Internet Explorer 11

Limitations:

30-day trial