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Constructing => Software / Technical => Topic started by: clemdia on October 16, 2012, 06:32:11 PM

Title: One way to create Across Lite (.puz) puzzles with "circles in squares"
Post by: clemdia on October 16, 2012, 06:32:11 PM
(There may be a better way, but I never found it)

These instructions also cover rebus puzzles, et. al. (see pages 6-9):
http://www.litsoft.com/across/docs/AcrossTextFormat.pdf


For any CC8 users who haven't yet encountered this issue, Crossword Compiler 8 supports circles-in-squares when creating a puzzle but it cannot export those circles to Across Lite/,puz format -- the circles are lost in the export.

I've only been able to create puzzles with circles-in-squares for Across Lite using this method:

Maybe this will help someone else (I suffered a bit to get to a solution).