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After a beta period that was a little longer than expected thanks to that pesky tablet, we're ready to go final with OmniGraphSketcher 1.1.1. If you participated in the beta, you already know that we've added Japanese and French localizations to OmniGraphSketcher. We've also improved support for international number formats (both for importing and display) and made lots of other tweaks and fixes.

OmniGraphSketcher 1.1.1 is available on our downloads page or via software update. Release notes are available in the usual spot (as well as the Help menu). As always, please don't hesitate to use the Send Feedback item in the Help menu, or email us with any questions or feedback.

Thanks to everyone who has participated in the OmniGraphSketcher beta so far! We're approaching the final release of OmniGraphSketcher 1.1.1, so beta 4 has only a few changes. This release fixes some problems with international number formats and addresses some intermittent crashes. You can grab it from the downloads page, or via software update if you're already running an OGS beta. Keep those emails coming! 

Thanks to the unpredictable timeframe of  Apple's App Store review process, today there are two new releases of OmniGraphSketcher available.

OmniGraphSketcher for iPad 1.1 is a significant update which focuses on adding data import capability and improving the user experience. Now that we've had time to use OmniGraphSketcher on actual iPads, we've adjusted the draw and fill tools to make graphing even easier and faster, and we've fixed issues affecting the document browser, graph editor, and info popovers. We've also had a chance to implement the data importing feature that is available in OmniGraphSketcher for Mac. Thanks to those of you who have patiently waited for import, and those who have provided feedback via the App Store and Email! 

Those of you running OmniGraphSketcher 1.1.1 beta 1 on the Mac may have noticed that the expiration date was fast approaching! We don't normally like to cut things this close, but developing two versions simultaneously has proved to be tricky. Beta 3 improves our Japanese and French localizations, and fixes a problem with entering Japanese text. We've also included some smaller fixes and improvements related to the iPad app. You can grab this release via our downloads page or via software update; as always please don't hesitate to email or Help > Send Feedback.

(If you're wondering what happened to beta 2, it was released and then immediately replaced due to a nasty bug)

Today we took a break from iPad development and updating the website to push out the first beta of OmniGraphSketcher 1.1.1. This release includes French and Japanese localizations, as well as a fix for a pesky crash involving Undo and lots of other smaller tweaks and fixes. You get get this release via the OmniGraphSketcher downloads page; please be sure to email us (or Help > Send Feedback within the application) with any questions or feedback.

This morning we released the final version of OmniGraphSketcher 1.1 via our website and software update. No matter how you use the app, we think you'll notice the improvements:

• If you do data plots, we have a new error bars feature, better auto-scaling, a more flexible data importer (we can now deal with semicolons, pipes, and more currency symbols), and better ability to incrementally add data to an existing data series.
• If you do economics / line graphs, we've improved line snapping, made axis titles draggable, and improved speed by implementing option-drag to copy graph elements.
• If you do math graphs, the canvas now snaps to square grid while resizing, and we've added better support for 1-dimensional number lines. We've also improved equations for best-fit lines.
• For everyone, we have LinkBack to help with graphs embedded in other documents,  an awesome tracing feature that makes it easier to bring in information not represented by numbers, and lots of other interface improvements and bug fixes.

We're really happy with this release and we hope you will be too - please don't hesitate to email us or use the Send Feedback item in the OmniGraphSketcher Help menu.

OmniGraphSketcher 1.1 Beta 3 is now available via the website and software update. This update features fixes for two crashes, as well as an improvement to horizontal line-snapping. We're eager to hear from users about any problems they may be having with the betas, as we're quickly nearing a 1.1 final release. Please don't hesitate to Help > Send Feedback or email.

Just in time for the upcoming holiday weekend in the U.S., here's the latest OmniGraphSketcher beta! This release is mostly bugfixes and tweaks, so check out the release notes and grab it from our download page or via software update if you're already running beta 1.

Feedback on our new error bars feature has been great, but we'd like to hear from as many of you as possible before this release goes final (that goes for all of the new features). Please don't hesitate to email or Help > Send Feedback from within OmniGraphSketcher.

Today we're happy to announce the public beta of OmniGraphSketcher 1.1. You can grab it via the beta download page.

So what's new? A lot! We had a great response to OmniGraphSketcher 1.0 and have been working hard on UI tweaks to make the graphing experience even better, as well as a few frequently requested features:

• Error Bars: We've been hinting at this for a while, but OmniGraphSketcher can now detect parallel data series and automatically convert them into error bars, as well as create error bars with user-specified offsets.
• Support For LinkBack: Now when you "Copy as Image" and paste your graph into OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner or any other Linkback-compliant application, you can double-click the pasted image to edit it directly in OmniGraphSketcher. Saving your changes in OmniGraphSketcher will update the linked graph image.
• Tracing: The OmniGraphSketcher canvas can now be made transparent, allowing you to position the graph window over an existing document and transfer data simply by drawing.

What about those UI tweaks? We've adjusted many tool behaviors for consistency within the application, as well as across our product range. Option-drag now duplicates graph objects, the tab key cycles through labels, and snapping works better in all tools (and when you're trying to snap both to an object and to vertical/horizontal). It's also much easier to add a new point to an existing series: just select a line and one or more free-floating points, then click one of the line-type buttons on the style inspector.

There's a ton more stuff listed in the beta release notes, so you'll have something to read while your download finishes. We look forward to your feedback!

We're still working on adding great features like automatic creation of Error Bars to OmniGraphSketcher 1.1, but in the meantime we're putting out version 1.0.1 to ensure compatibility with any forthcoming OS X updates from Apple. In addition, this release features quite a few bug fixes, adds a "Select All Fills" menu item, and gives users the ability to import data that has text labels specified for only some rows.

You can read the full release notes and grab Beta 1 here. Please don't hesitate to email or Help > Send Feedback if you encounter any new issues or if you just want to chat about how you use OmniGraphSketcher.

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