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.
Today we're releasing OmniGraphSketcher 1.0 RC 2, which is identical to RC 1 except for some changes that should remedy a crash related to text editing. You can download via the website or software update. Thanks to everyone that has submitted feedback and crash reports during the beta process!
Turns out we accidentally broke the Quick Look generator in beta 4 when it's used from app, which all of you should be doing. This unfortunately slipped passed us due to the fun involved in testing the Quick Look generator when there's a million different versions of the app available. So just a day later, beta 5 is now available with working Quick Look support! There's also a cool new feature to it that was actually in beta 4. If you mouse over the bottom center of the Quick Look preview, two buttons will appear for expand and collapse all. Hurray for software updater!
Please see the release notes for full details. Head on over to the download page when you're ready, or use the built-in updater if you're using a 3.9 beta (OmniOutliner menu -> Check for Updates). If you have any feedback on this release, please let us know by using the Send Feedback option under the help menu or send an email to omnioutliner@omnigroup.com. Thanks!
We're quickly approaching the final OmniGraphSketcher 1.0 release, and today are making RC1 available via software update and the download page.
Lead developer Robin has added some more optimizations for dealing with larger .ograph files, as well as fixed some nagging bugs and crashes. We now interpret parenthesized numbers as negative when importing, and sharp-eyed users will notice a refined selection highlight. OmniGraphSketcher's rectangular selection tool is now more consistent with OmniGraffle's (finding all graph elements that intersect with with the selection rectangle). This release also features a complete help document.
You can read the full release notes here or from the Help menu within the application. As usual, please don't hesitate to send us your feedback and any crash reports that are generated. While version 1.0 is feature-complete, we've got great stuff planned for the future.
Sorry for all the confusion with the beta 3 expiration warning. Beta 4 is now available for download. Nothing major in this release as we're approaching the final version. We did fix a crash that would occur when saving under certain conditions. Unfortunately there is still a crash that can happen when you expand a PDF attachment after saving. This crash is very finicky so we've haven't been able to track down the exact cause yet. We also fixed a couple bugs that were introduced in the last beta.
Please see the release notes for full details. Head on over to the download page when you're ready, or use the built-in updater if you're using beta 3 (OmniOutliner menu -> Check for Updates). If you have any feedback on this release, please let us know by using the Send Feedback option under the help menu or send an email to omnioutliner@omnigroup.com. Thanks!
OmniPlan 1.6.2 has been released!
As always, we’d like to thank everyone who provided crash reports, bug reports, and feedback over the last couple of months. If you'd like to read release notes in their entirety you can click here. The highlights of this update include:
In trial mode, instead of limiting the user to 20 tasks we now support unlimited functionality for 14 days.
Fixed what was easily our most common crasher (in -[OPGanttView drawRect:])
Improvements to localizations.
Fixed a bug preventing documents from being overwritten correctly when saved to AFP filesystems, instead creating a new file with tilde in the filename (like foo~.omniplan).
The horizontal time scale set by the “Scale to fit” menu items is now saved so that the project will be scaled the same when you save and reload it.
Fixed a couple more leveling loops.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can contact us directly via our support page or by using the Send Feedback feature in your copy of OmniPlan.
OmniPlan 1.6.2 is a free and highly recommended update to all registered users of OmniPlan, so fire up your built-in software updater or head to our website and download OmniPlan 1.6.2 today!
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
Hot on the heels of beta 4, we're releasing OmniGraphSketcher beta 5.
As promised last week, this beta includes support for Quick Look and Spotlight indexing. Older .ograph files will need to be re-saved to get these features. Quick Look and Spotlight are also now enabled for .graph files created with Robin Stewart Software Graph Sketcher.
We've added a menu command called “Make Current Styles Default” which saves your current fonts and axis visibility settings as defaults for future graphs.
Clicking the “Connect Points” button at the bottom of the data inspector will now connect points in the order they appear in the list (creation order), rather than from left to right. The other methods of connection (style inspector, Edit menu item) continue to connect from left to right.
OmniGraphSketcher documents in progress are now auto-saved. If you should experience a crash, your document will be reopened when you relaunch the application.
If OmniGraphSketcher does crash on you, please be sure to click the button to send us the crash report, which will help us make the final version as stable as humanly possible. If you have time to attach your file and/or tell us what you were doing when it crashed, that's even better.
You can check out the rest of the release notes and download beta 5 here (or just “Check for Updates…” within the application).
OmniOutliner 3.9 beta 3 is now available! There's a lot of small fixes and features in this release. Most notably, the issues with AppleScripts on the toolbar should be fully fixed now and alternate row color is now supported in DHTML and Quick Look. There's also been more work on the docx export. InDesign and OpenOffice should no longer crash when trying to import the docx files. Please read the release notes for full details.
The issue with the software updater leaving the old version behind when not asked for should be resolved as well. You will still see this issue when updating to beta 3 though since the fix won't take effect until you're updating from beta 3.
As always, please let us know if you run into any problems by using the Send Feedback option under the Help menu in the app or by sending an email to omnioutliner@omnigroup.com. If you're ready to give it a go, head over to the download page or use the updater in the app!
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!