Placing a figure in a manuscript used to mean uploading a file, accepting wherever it landed, and hoping it survived the export. It now works the way the rest of your writing does.

## Paste, drag, place

Copy an image from anywhere and paste it into the manuscript. Drag one in from your desktop and it lands where you dropped it. Once it is on the page you can pick it up and move it, the same as any other block.

Selecting a figure brings up its options: size it to a quarter, half or three quarters of the writing measure, choose whether text breaks around it or wraps down one side, and set where it sits on the line. Wrapping is real wrapping, so the paragraph flows beside the figure rather than around a gap. On a narrow screen a wrapped figure goes full width instead of squeezing the text into a column two words wide.

There is a red delete control where you would expect one, and a description field for the alternative text a screen reader will read out.

## Captions, without leaving the figure

The same bar offers "Add caption". One click puts a numbered caption directly beneath the figure with the cursor already in it, ready to type. Tables and displayed equations have the same option, and all three number themselves: Figure 1, Table 1, Equation 1, renumbering as you add and remove them.

## Figures in your export

Images now render in exported PDFs and in print. Previously an export could arrive with a blank space where the figure should have been. If an image genuinely cannot be reached, the export says so in place rather than leaving a silent gap.

## A toolbar that stays out of the way

The toolbar is now a band above the page rather than a translucent layer floating on top of it. Jumping to a heading from the outline lands the heading in view instead of behind the controls, and menus for tables and images no longer fight with the toolbar for the same strip of screen.

## Quieter saving

Alfred keeps a copy of unsaved edits on your device so nothing is lost if your connection drops. Occasionally that queue could hold on to an edit belonging to a manuscript you had already deleted, and keep announcing that it could not be saved. Those edits are now cleared, and a save that is interrupted midway is picked up again rather than left in limbo. The result is fewer notifications, and none that ask you to wait for something that is never going to happen.