Feedback on the updated Japanese localizations was extremely positive, so we're marching forward to a release candidate, which is now available at our OmniGraffle beta page.
Historical release notes are in the usual location.
Cheers!
Another beta release, to add the updated Japanese localizations much as we did with the other Tier 1 languages in the beta 1 release.
Nothing beyond that code-wise, however if you do work in Japanese, we'd appreciate the feedback to see that everything is in place properly.
While developing OmniGraffle and OmniGraffle Professional 5.1, we wound up changing and adding quite a few strings and what-not, and as a result those corresponding localizations got broken in the process, this beta release has corrected foreign language translations for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Japanese will be coming shortly in another beta release.
Also of note with this release is a fix to a memory leak related to some caching code; this repairs a common CGSWindow error that would lead to a string of constant crashes, so if you've run into a number of stability problems it's encouraged that you pick up this beta release.
As ever, the beta page awaits.
At last, OmniGraffle 5.1 and OmniGraffle Professional 5.1 are out of beta testing, and available for download from the website.
No changes have been made since the release candidate, however for those of you who have not been beta testing, here's an overview of what's gone into the 5.1 release:
- Improved Visio compatibility adding support for the Enhanced MetaFile graphics format along with many other fixes and changes.
- Improved user interface and focus for the canvases and outline sidebars.
- Added new adjustable arc/wedge and star shapes.
- Addressed stability issues.
- Reset the trial period.
- Many bug fixes have been addressed in this release. You can see the full list of changes at our Historical Release Notes page.
The download page awaits, and enjoy!
Just a few nits and picks at some things in the online help index as well as some small fixes to searching for stencils on Graffletopia, and we've landed squarely at a release candidate for OmniGraffle and OmniGraffle Professional 5.1.
Of note is the fact that due to some strings changes, localizations are not fully completed, those are in the process of being mended, and we've also reset the trial period so if you don't currently have a license key for version 5 you can again run it sans license for the 14 day trial period.
Still found at the beta page, and as always, release notes are in the usual spot.
This particular beta release is a week late, partly due to myself taking ill last week, but more importantly due to some new work being done in the area of caching, which has proved to be fairly unstable for some users during prior beta releases.
We have high hopes that these fixes will alleviate the number of crashes encountered, however if you do run into a crash please do send in the report that pops up in OmniCrashCatcher, it's very helpful to us.
A number of Visio-related fixes and some other interface changes are also under the hood in beta 5, which should make some folks out there happy.
As always, the release notes and beta download page are at your beck and call.
And another beta release is made, this time concerned with fixing a number of Visio import problems as well as addressing some rendering issues with objects on shared layers, among other things.
Of particular note is that we've gone back to a single thread for text layout, we're hoping that this will address the problems some users have been running into with individual characters going missing at certain zoom levels, so if you have been running into this, you'll want to check out beta 4.
As always, the beta download page and release notes await.
More work, more continuing.
The nice fellow who runs Graffletopia pointed out that our Enhanced MetaFile support wasn't working correctly on PowerPC machines, so we've addressed that along with some other issues that have come to light.
Significant progress has been made to the sidebar interface, selected layers and canvases now display much as they did in version 4, which should make a good number of users happy about that change.
A number of known crashers have been addressed as well, however not to the extent that we can mark them as fixed, so please, if you're running the beta releases do send in your crash reports so we can track that.
As always, the beta download page and release notes await!
Work continues, as is the mantra around these parts, and often winds up being the spoken aloud weekly status update.
Quite a few more Visio import and export issues have been sorted out, it would appear that adding Enhanced MetaFile support has brought out quite a few Visio users and they have in turn pointed out a number of problems in a fairly causal nature.
Some other bug fixes as well as some needed documentation additions and it all shapes up to make for a nice second beta release.
Please to direct your attention to our beta page, and a handy list of the release notes for this beta.
Hot on the heels of the release of OmniGraffle 5.0.2, here comes the first beta release of OmniGraffle 5.1.
Lots and lots of bug fixes, and some new features to pique your interest—Our Visio import support now includes Enhanced MetaFiles, we've finagled with the interface of the sidebars a fair bit to try and maintain focus in the main canvas area as much as possible, and added a new smart shape for making pie chart/arc/wedge type shapes.
Copious release notes and the beta disk images are available at the OmniGraffle beta page.