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Bloom 6.1 Beta Release Notes

Improved Overlay Tool​

We’ve made it easy to move, crop, an manipulate overlay items. They now operate more like you’d find in modern graphics programs such as Canva.com and Microsoft Designer. We did this work now as part of our work on “Bloom Games”, which should arrive in Bloom 6.2.

For a menu of options, click the “…” button or just right-click on the element.

Cover Color​

We moved the control for setting a custom cover color from the Publish screens to the Book Settings.

Font Suitability​

We’ve made it more obvious when a font’s license does not allow re-distribution.

In the Book Settings, you can now see all the fonts that are in a book and check on their suitability for use in Bloom Reader, BloomLibrary.org, and elsewhere.

Half Folio Paper​

You can now specify half folio paper size, which is popular in Colombia.

Alpha Tiles Links​

BloomLibrary.org can now include a link to your Alpha Tiles app at the top of your language page:

Language and Country Grids​

We’ve added two new grids for finding and counting things on BloomLibrary.org. You can now view books, languages, and countries. Note that where a language is found in multiple countries (e.g. English), we pick just one. Otherwise the count of languages in a country becomes unhelpful, as they include all the languages in modern use there, not just the languages that are indigenous to the country.

Sign Language Videos​

We’ve made a few improvements to video playback:

  • Videos now have the normal set of controls, so you can start over without having to wait until the end
  • Videos no longer hide when finished

Fix replay

Custom language names in collections with many languages​

Bloom has a “default” name for each language, which you can customize when you pick the language. Before this version, Bloom could remember these custom languages for just the L1, L2, L3, and Sign Language. However if you’re importing more than 3 languages via Spreadsheet Import, it would forget how you want to display those other languages.

We are addressing this in two stages.

  1. In Bloom 6.1, Bloom Collections will remember any number of custom language names. However if you use the “Look up Language Code” tool — for example to print with one of those other languages — you will have to re-enter the language the way you want to see it.
  2. Bloom 6.2 will include a brand new Language Picker that will be able to preserve your customized language name.