![]() ![]() I like this addition, but I’m surprised that the generated PDF always comes with a white background – it doesn’t respect the app’s dark mode setting. ![]() Full-page capture is supported too as a way to quickly generate a plain text PDF of the document you’re working on: just take a screenshot, select ‘Full Page’ at the top of the screen, and share your document with other people or apps. In addition to context menus (which have rightfully replaced the app’s old custom menus in the library), iA Writer now fully integrates with new gestures for text editing and document selection (you can read more details in this section of my review). With this update, iA Writer has also added official support for a variety of other iOS and iPadOS 13 technologies. I find the integration with the app’s quick search remarkable as it enables full keyboard navigation within iA Writer – an aspect of the iPad experience I’ve always pushed for more developers to adopt. When I was working on my coverage for the first update to MacStories Shortcuts Icons last week, the ability to open multiple iA Writer windows came in handy: in one space, I kept a draft of my blog post, while in another I created a Split View for our product page and FAQ so I could edit both at the same time. Press ⇧⏎ to open the selected document from quick search in a new window. In the sidebar, you can long-press a document and select ‘Open in New Window’ to open it as a new window next to the one in the current space (in Split View) if you’re using an external keyboard, you can create a new window with a new document with ⇧⌘N or – and this is my favorite touch – open Quick Search with ⇧⌘O, search and select a document with the arrow keys, and hit ⇧⏎ to open the selection in a new window. iA Writer 5.3 complements these default options with the ability to open documents in new windows with context menus and keyboard shortcuts. ![]() As is standard on iPadOS, you can open the app’s Exposé view and tap the ‘+’ button in the upper right corner to open a new window alternatively, you can pick up the app’s icon from the dock and drag it to the side of the screen to open a window in full-screen, Split View, or Slide Over. What iA Writer gets right about multiwindow is offering multiple ways to activate the feature. If only in a limited “preview-only” mode that doesn’t let you edit the same document in two different windows, I would love the ability to open a preview for the document I’m working on in a live-updating window on the side this feature sounds like the perfect candidate for auxiliary windows restricted to one view at a time. This is one of the best features of the latest Ulysses update for iPadOS 13, and I was hoping iA Writer would allow me to build the same setup, but sadly this isn’t supported right now. ![]() The app lets you move the selected document back to the current window, which is a helpful option I’d like more document-based apps to implement, but, ideally, I’d very much prefer to open the same document across multiple instances of the app.Īs a consequence of this limitation, it’s not possible to edit a document in one window and preview it in another. I have two custom iA Writer templates that let me preview Markdown documents as they’d look once published on MacStories with iA Writer set to follow the system’s appearance by default, when I enable dark mode from Control Center, my custom templates in iA Writer use it too. What did surprise me, however, is how, in addition to the app’s default preview templates, even your custom templates will follow the system’s appearance setting if they’re programmed correctly. IA Writer’s dark mode is the same dark theme the app has long offered as a custom feature, only it can now follow your device’s appearance automatically, which is not inherently surprising. Both options can be configured in the app’s settings under ‘Appearance’ personally, I prefer letting iA Writer (and other apps) always follow the system’s appearance setting. IA Writer, my favorite text editor for iPhone and iPad (which I’ve previously covered in detail here and here), has received a major update to version 5.3 this week, adding support for key iOS and iPadOS 13 features and bringing a welcome improvement to one of its most powerful advanced functionalities.įirst up is integration with dark mode: like several other apps we’ve covered here on MacStories over the past month, iA Writer now lets you decide between letting the app follow the system’s appearance setting automatically or picking either the light or dark theme manually. ![]()
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