Jarte versions

Free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad
Oct 16, 2020
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May 31, 2017
Editorial review
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Feb 16, 2016
Editorial review
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Feb 13, 2015
Review
Feb 28, 2014
Oct 23, 2013
Review
Apr 14, 2013
Editorial review
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Jun 24, 2012
Review
Jul 26, 2011
Editorial review
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Jan 26, 2011
Jan 18, 2011
Mar 30, 2010
Sep 22, 2009
3.3
Aug 19, 2008
Editorial review
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Nov 4, 2009
3.2
Mar 11, 2008
Review
Aug 24, 2008
3.1
Review
Mar 3, 2008
Review
Sep 9, 2008
2.6
Mar 2, 2008
Review
2.5
Review
2.0
Aug 14, 2008
Review
Review

What's new

v6.1.0.102 [May 31, 2017]
May contain unspecified improvements or bug fixes.

v5.4.100.1 [Feb 16, 2016]
Inserting web links prefixed with protocols other than "http" and "https" did not work properly.
Words containing a curly style apostrophe were marked as spelling errors uness the Enable Smart Quotes feature was enabled.
Performing a "Save As" on a new, empty, plain text document caused Jarte to crash.
The Enable Page Counting and Enable Word Counting settings are accessed by right clicking the status bar. These settings now appear the Tools > Options menu when Jarte is in screen reader mode in order to provide better accessibility.
If Jarte ran as a portable app on a USB drive, and a custom path was set for WordWeb, a font manager, or Jarte's backup folder on that same drive, then Jarte did not take into account the custom path's drive letter might change when the drive switches computers.
The page number boxes were disabled when the Print dialog's "Print pages" setting was selected, making that setting impossible to use.
The "Replacement word or phrase" box remained disabled when the "Automatically replace" option was selected in the spelling dialog used to manually add new words to a spelling dictionary, making that option impossible to use via that dialog.
There was an unusal scenario where use of the Clip List hot key could cause Jarte to crash.
There were still cases of Jarte's Clip List feature causing Jarte to crash when a clipboard copy was performed in Microsoft's Excel program.
Right clicking on a hyperlink and selecting Open Hyperlink caused the resulting web page to be opened twice on older versions of Windows.
When the text cursor was moved after changing the case of a text selection, the modified text continued to appear highlighted until the next text modification was made.
Other smaller fixes and enhancements.

v4.4.0.103 [Jul 26, 2011]
Enhancements:
The default initial folder used for Open/Save can now be set by going to File > File Options > Set Default Folder. The default initial folder could already be specified by existing advanced option Default Initial Folder, but the new file option makes the ability to change the setting more obvious and convenient.
For Jarte Plus users, custom shortcut keys (or custom Quick Bar buttons) can now be assigned to new commands Select About Panel, Select File Panel, Select Font Panel, Select Paragraph Panel, and Select Spell Panel. This allows custom shortcut keys to be used to switch between the side tool panels. Note that command Hide Tool Panel already exists (toggles between showing and hiding tool panel).
Closing a document no longer causes Jarte Plus to exit split view mode at the same time. Exiting split view mode is still accomplished by selecting Split View Off.
When the text based status bar is displayed, the word count field is now the first field rather than the last field, assuming word counting in the status bar is enabled.
Pressing the Escape key while keyboard focus is in the Find Bar or Reference Bar now closes the Find Bar or Reference Bar.
New advanced setting Default to Plain Text can be used to direct the New command to create a plain text document, rather than a rich text document.
Jarte now recognizes when it is running under the PortableApps.com platform and conforms accordingly.
Bug Fixes:
Clicking one of two buttons on the line guide while in split view mode did not cause the document with the line guide to become the active document if it was not already active.
If the Swap Views command was invoked while split view mode was being used and the line guide feature was being used, the line guide did not swap with its associated editing pane.
Jarte could not save changes made to a file marked as "Hidden" in Windows Explorer.
The Starting page number field in the Print dialog did not allow negative numbers to typed in (i.e., the up/down was needed to enter negative numbers).
If Jarte was configured to minimize to the system tray on the taskbar, and was minimized, then Jarte did not come to the top of other windows if the user double clicked a document in Windows Explorer.
Text could not be dragged-and-dropped into Jarte from another program.
A couple of bugs with Jarte's tabs bar were fixed. The bugs only occurred in certain scenarios when there were enough tabs present to cause the special navigation tab to appear.
If default left and right page margins are different than the factory default then text wrapping in the editing pane was based on the factory default page margins until the Print dialog was used.
The default page header did not get printed for a document if Quick Print was used before the Print dialog was displayed.
Spell check was not always ignoring HTML tags during the first spell check when option Ignore HTML Tags was enabled.
The Insert/Overwrite indicator in the status bar was not updated if the Insert key on the keyboard's number pad was used to toggle the insert/overwrite state, rather than the normal Insert key.
The Open and Save dialogs could appear off screen if Jarte was run from a flash drive on a computer with a high resolution screen and then Jarte was subsequently run from the flash drive when the drive was plugged into a computer with a lower resolution screen.
There was a scenario in which Jarte would bypass the "Do you want to save?" prompt when closing a new document and would present the Save dialog. The scenario only happened when AutoSave was enabled but when it occurred it was difficult to close the tab, and difficult to exit Jarte while the tab was present.
The first command in the Customize Shortcut Keys dialog was not in alphabetical order.
The Reopen Last Session feature did not reopen a file that was first created while closing Jarte's previous session.
The page header/footer Default button was disabled whenever the Print header and footer check box was unchecked, which made it inconvenient to set a default of no header/footer after one had been defined.
A search for text that included a curly quote would not succeed if the curly quote had been pasted into the Find Bar.
The commands for changing the style of numbered lists were missing from the Customize Shortcut Keys dialog.
If the Screen Capture feature was selected after pressing the Clip List global hot key then Jarte would come to the foreground when the screen capture was complete. That was undesirable if Jarte was not the active program at the time the global hot key was used.
The Ctrl+W shortcut key did not close the active document (Ctrl+W is an alternate of the Ctrl+F4 shortcut).

v3.2 [Mar 11, 2008]
Bug fixes.

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