Version 1.2 / Jan 11, 2006
- all text editing commands now also work on multiple, non-contiguous selections
- the text ruler now appears at a fixed position at the top of the window
- improved editing of text boxes which are obscured by other objects
- some minor improvements regarding text editing
- objects now move by 10 units when holding down the shift key and pressing an arrow key
- the main window now has the “unified” title bar and toolbar look
- the Show/Hide Invisible Characters menu item moved to the Text menu
- the ASCII generating algorithm now handles some control characters better
- fixed a bug which occurred when option-dragging an object below the page’s visible clipping
- fixed a bug which could lead to a crash after using the Find command
- fixed an error in the Rewrap command, which could result in incorrect indenting for lines with tabs within their leading whitespace
Version 1.1.2 / Jan 3, 2006
- fixed text layout problems under Tiger, which caused wrong line breaking for complete lines terminated with a line break, due to incorrect layout behavior in Tiger
- fixed a display bug for text boxes within a group, which occurred after changing the font size
- text boxes now grow with their contents also when they’re part of a group
- the disk image’s background image now displays correctly on Tiger
version 1.1.1 / Jan 3, 2006
- solved problems when saving documents with grouped objects
Version 1.1 / Apr 20, 2005
- objects can now be grouped
- arbitrary objects can now overlap
- added a new command to convert the selected objects to one editable text object
- added diagonal lines
- lines can now consist of arbitrary characters
- vertical lines can also have arrows
- intersection characters can be turned on or off now, individually for each line and frame
- objects can be flipped horizontally and vertically
- objects can aligned horizontally and vertically
- supports drag and drop between document windows
- text can now be pasted without creating a text box first
- the Text tool has been renamed to Text Select tool, to make clear that its purpose is not editing text
- when creating rectangular selections, a help tag now displays the size of the selection rectangle
- text can now be saved with Windows-style line breaks
- new option to wrap text in text boxes by characters (rather than by words)
- the page size now appears at the lower-left of the window
- a new option allows to automatically enlarge the page when text grows beyond the bottom
- invisible characters in text boxes (spaces, tabs, line breaks) can now be made visible
- new command to remove “gremlins”
- added commands to reverse the characters in each line, and to reverse the selected lines
- new option to auto-expand tabs to spaces
- new overtype mode to overwrite existing characters as you type
- text can now be pasted as plain text, ignoring any previous formatting
- added new commands (and shortcuts) to quickly select the current line and paragraph
- while moving the markers in the text ruler, guidelines now appear in the text
- supports Mac OS X’s spell checking system
- supports Mac OS X’s Complete command (will only work in Panther)
- Replace All operations can now be undone
- better display of return and tab characters in the Find panel, including new buttons to comfortably insert such characters
- searches can be limited to whole words
- now remembers the settings in the Find panel
- new command (and shortcut) to set the replace string from the selection
- added support for additional character encodings (when saving ASCII/Unicode files), and a palette to control which encodings appear in the menu
- now saves Unicode line or paragraph separators
- remembers settings in the Save As Text panel
- keyboard shortcuts for all menu items can now be customized
- redesigned the Info palette
- the Info palette now allows changing the dimensions of several objects relative to their current size
- the Info palette can now evaluate simple arithmetic expressions
- now remembers the size and position of document windows
- new command to set the default size and position for document windows
- the Step & Repeat command now asks before it enlarges the page
- changed the shortcuts for “Preferences…” from Command-; (semicolon) to Command-, (comma), and for “Align Center” from Command-- (dash) to Command-|, according to the new Human Interface Guidelines
- fixed a bug due to which copy and paste for objects didn’t work
- fixed a bug which sometimes caused wrong characters to appear in custom-style frame boxes (on the screen display only)
- fixed a bug which made ASCII/edit behave strangely when modifying a Text tool selection with the shift and arrow keys
- fixed a bug which caused the buttons in some alert sheets only to react on the second click
- fixed problems with Mac OS X’s Special Characters palette
Version 1.0 / Sep 19, 2003
