OmniOutliner 2.1 beta 1...

Brian C. dvorak at omnigroup.com
Wed Jul 3 12:15:03 PDT 2002


was posted for download a couple days back - has many fixes which should 
make folks happy.

Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Brian C.
Support Manager
Omni Group

- Enhancements
     - Added "Expand All" and "Collapse All" toolbar items.
     - Exporting and printing notes
         - Notes are exported to RTF and HTML for both single and
           multi-column outlines, and to Plain Text (fixed width).  The
           notes for a row are put right after the row.  They start in
           the outline column and go to the edge of the page, and are
           indented an extra level to separate them from the regular
           text of a row.
         - Notes are printed inline after the row, just like the
           exported versions.  The note text starts in the outline
           column (indented an extra level), and goes to the edge of the
           page.
         - Notes are now always exported, except for the tabbed and MORE
           3.1 Plain Text types.  (We have requests to make this
           optional.)  There is a preference for printing to include the
           notes.
         - The note column, which indicates rows that have a note
           attached to them while you are editing the outline, is not
           included during printing or exporting.
     - The HTML that we generate should now be much better.  I have used
       the HTML Validator at <http://validator.w3.org/> and fixed all of
       the problems that it reported.
     - We now use CSS to indent the outline column and notes in the
       multi-column HTML export.
     - Printing
         - Replaced triangle bitmap images with PDFs so that they look
           better when printed.  Also use PDFs for checkboxes instead of
           bitmaps.
         - Pop-up list items don't draw the up/down arrow triangles on
           the right when printed.
         - Images (for the handles and checkboxes) get scaled properly
           during printing now.
         - Added Printing Preferences
             - Print notes
             - Print background
             - Print header/footer
             - Scale width of multi-column outlines to fit on page
         - Draw document title in upper left corner.
         - Scaled printing should work better now.  Previously the width
           was automatically scaled to fit, and then that was scaled, so
           scaling to 50% would make very small text that didn't span
           the full width of the page.  The header also gets placed
           properly on the page.
               Unfortunately the headers/footers get scaled as well.
               They should be independant of the document scaling.
             - For single column outlines (the note column doesn't count
               in this case), the column always fills the entire width
               of the page, regardless of the width on the screen or the
               scaling.  The text is scaled.
             - For multi-column outlines the new preference gives you
               two options:
                 - By default the outline is scaled down so that all of
                   the columns will fit across the page.  This scaling
                   overrides the scaling specified in the page setup
                   panel.
                 - Don't scale.  If the total width is wider than the
                   page, it gets printed across multiple pages.
     - AppleScript
         - There are now two ways to access cell values: "text" and
           "value".  For example, for a work hour duration column,
           "text" might return the string"1d 7h", whereas "value" would
           return the number "15" (the underlying value, 15 hours).
- Bug Fixes
     - Fixed drawing bug when double-clicking on the text of an item.
     - Exporting to RTF preserves the head indent, first line head
       indent of paragraphs after the first paragraph of an item.  (The
       values of the first paragraph were used before.)
     - Printing of the background color was inconsistent -- the
       background color was printed, but the alternate row color wasn't,
       an only the first pixel high row of the column colors was printed.
     - Bug #4209 - properly save formatting of duration columns (hours
       per week, hours per month).
     - Fixed logic of buttons on confirmation sheet when you try to
       delete an expired license.  Also changed titles of buttons from
       "Yes"/"No" to "Delete" and "Cancel".
     - Don't reset the text selection when you use cmd-' to switch to
       the note area.  If you haven't selected text in it the text
       insertion point is still put at the end, and if it isn't visible
       (as in a long note), it will scroll to visible as soon as you
       start typing.
- Known Issues
     - We need icons for the "Expand All" and "Collapse All" toolbar
       items, and for the Printing preference panel.




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