It was inevitable. Try as hard as one might, there will always be those one or three bugs that escape notice, and as a result a small maintenance or point release is required.
OmniGraffle is no different in this case, and since the release of version 5.2 last month, we've been alerted to a small number of issues having mostly to do with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), so here's a beta release to resolve said issues.
Read all about it at the historical release notes page, find the beta to download here.
An intrepid user noticed that the CFBundleDisplayName was incorrectly dubbed as OmniGraffle Pro for the standard version of OmniGraffle in the first release candidate, so here's a second candidate before going final.
Find it at the beta page, and read up on release notes here.
A release candidate, and pretty much in the nick of time if some rumors about the impending release of a certain operating system are to be believed.
Speaking of which, there are a number of smallish fixes in place to provide better compatibility with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, along with some other fun bug fixes and localization fixes for our international users.
Read all about it at the beta download page, and peruse the historical release notes if you so choose.
A few regressions and bugs addressed, a number of crashes fixed (including a pesky Quick Look related crash), and a little bit of a new feature added in this release:
Canvas names are retained on export to PDF, for various bookmarking and navigational purposes in whatever PDF viewer happens to be your favorite.
Please do take a look at the beta download page and historical release notes.
Any hiccups from WWDC and nice summer weather are now over, and the OmniGraffle 5.2 beta releases are now back on track.
Beta 6 addresses a number of nagging issues with respect to shared layers and more importantly (to some), has adjusted the sensitivity of multi-touch gestures for resizing, rotating, and zooming for those users with the trackpads to support this.
As always, the beta download page and release notes await.
We decided to nail down a few nasty issues and release another beta before running off to WWDC next week; as always you can read about said changes at the historical release notes page or the beta download page, and what follows is a brief summation.
We've addressed a couple of issues that popped up in the previous 5.2 beta 4 release, one relating to changes we made to dragging layers between canvases and shared layers, the other a repeating crash when attempting to inspect the drawing tools. Add to that some other bugs fixed concerning canvases and another crash when dragging objects from stencils, and that about sums it up.
OmniGraffle 5.2 beta 5 download page
Historical release notes
Steve Weller has a very nice tutorial along with an OmniGraffle template concerning the making of pixel-perfect icons for iPhone application toolbars up at his site.
Having gone through much the same thing myself using OmniGraffle to create icons and images and the like for Cocoa applications, it's very nice to see this sort of thing documented well.
Have a look-see for yourself, How to Draw Pixel-Perfect iPhone Toolbar Icons.
Excelsior!
A couple of important things to talk about in this release, aside from various bug fixes (which are faithfully documented in the historical release notes).
The first of which is, we've added multi-touch support for zooming the view, and resizing and rotating selections. If you've got one of the newer MacBooks that support multi-touch on the trackpad, a pinch will zoom the view in and out. If there's a selection, pinching will resize that selection, and you can also rotate said selection. Please let us know how this works out for you, we have a feeling that at present the multi-touch support is somewhat sensitive.
Secondly, we've added a hidden preference to persistently display the layer status icons in the Canvases Sidebar, to match behavior that was present in OmniGraffle 4. If you'd like to have these icons show all the time (as opposed to mouseover or in their “on” state), open up Terminal.app and paste in the following and press Return:
defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniGraffle AlwaysShowLayerStatusIcons YES
If you're running OmniGraffle Professional, the above should read as:
defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniGrafflePro AlwaysShowLayerStatusIcons YES
As always, the beta page awaits.
Enjoy!
The most recent beta release to OmniGraffle won't have a great deal immediately visible to the user; instead we've incorporated a number of under the hood changes to how our software update mechanism works to bring it more in line with other applications we have such as OmniFocus.
Hopefully this integration has gone smoothly, however if bumps in the road appear, don't hesitate to contact us.
OmniGraffle beta release download page.
Historical release notes.
Another round of bug fixes and stability issues taken care of, somewhat related to shared layers and canvases in the sidebar, among other factors.
I neglected to point out last time that the licensing code has been modified to match that of OmniFocus, meaning that a single license key will now allow one user to run OmniGraffle on two computers simultaneously, so that should make some users out there happy.
Download at the beta page, and read up on release notes.
Cheers!