OmniGraffle for Mac Release Notes

Recent Changes

Version 6.1.4 - Thursday, March 5, 2015

OmniGraffle 6.1.4 is a minor update focused on stability.

Stability — Fixed a crash when using the ruler line spacing sheet to set an exact line spacing value.
Stability — Fixed a crash when unarchiving a LinkBack attachment with a shape containing a Jump action.
Stability — Fixed a crash when dragging a Xcode folder over an OmniGraffle window.
Stability — Possible fixed a crash when opening a document with collapsed inspectors in some configurations. We were never able to reproduce this ourselves, so we’ll be on the lookout for more reports.
Stability — Fixed a crash when closing a document while a text field in the inspector was active.
Stability — Fixed a crash when importing an OmniOutliner file with the note column mapped to the resulting shape’s note.
Stability — Fixed a crash when opening the resource browser and showing previews of multiple documents or stencils using plastic fill, or other GPU-supported styles.
Performance — Fixed a performance issue related to Shared Layers and text tags that could resize.
Stability — Fixed a crash involving a delayed inspector update after dragging a shape.
Visio — Fixed an array bound error when opening certain Visio files.
Sidebar — Fixed a bug where newly-created canvases would not prompt editing of their names.
Stability — Fixed a crash when undoing in the middle of a multi-touch gesture.
Export — Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect folder locations when exporting.

Version 6.1.3 - Monday, February 2, 2015

OmniGraffle 6.1.3 is a minor update focused on stability.

Stability — Fixed a crash related to changing screens and closing windows.
Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when updating the style tray in a background thread while moving lots of shapes at once using the arrow keys.
Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when tabbing through tables with recently-deleted text.
Stability — Fixed a data corruption bug related to changing layers or canvases with graphics that have layer or canvas actions.
Stability — Fixed a crash deleting multiple shared layers at once.
Stability — Fixed a bug where deleting a layer with actions on other layers that reference that layer can cause the document to load incorrectly.
Help Menu — Searching the Help menu would sometimes return results from older versions of OmniGraffle if they were still installed on the Mac, even though those help results didn’t apply. Searching the Help menu for something that didn’t exist and then clicking on “No results found” would also cause a crash. Both of these issues have been fixed.
Option-Drag — Fixed a bug where Option-dragging a shape to duplicate it would always place it in the wrong location when the canvas was zoomed or when rulers were visible.

Version 6.1.2 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015

OmniGraffle 6.1.2 is a minor update focused on stability.

Stability — Fixed a crash opening Visio files (.vsd) with a specific connector type and setting.
Stability — Fixed a crash closing the sheet that shows errors that occur while loading the document.
Stability — Fixed a hang involved with saving a document multiple times without a pause in-between saves.
Performance — Improved inspector performance - selecting tabs when a large stencil was open in the stencil inspector was slow.
Stability — Fixed a crash with updating the stlye widget.
Stability — Fixed a crash when using the stamp tool.
Stability — Fixed an issue where an object link which points nowhere would cause a crash when the link’s attributes were displayed in the inspector.

Version 6.1.1 - Wednesday, December 10, 2014

OmniGraffle 6.1.1 fixes a number of bugs and crashes discovered since the release of OmniGraffle 6.1. OmniGraffle 6.1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite to run.

Text — A fix for text alignment issues has been put in place.
Drawing — Fixed an issue where line positions would shift on re-opening a file after saving.
Performance — Distortion effects should render more quickly when zoomed in at 200%.
Stability — Fixed a crash when using the Page Up or Page Down keys.
Stencil Window — Fixed a bug where every other canvas of a multiple canvas stencil would not display.
Visio Import — Fixed an Out of Array Bound error when importing Visio files.
Drawing — Older documents defaulted line shadow drawing to off. That is now respected.
Page Setup scale — Fixed a regression so that the Page Setup applies to canvases and printing.
Stability — Fixed a crash where the Action inspector would crash if the name of canvas in Jumps Elsewhere setting was too long.
Drawing Tools — Fixed an issue with the Style Brush - copying plastic fill was not duplicating the secondary fill color.
Sidebar — Fixed an issue canvas name text field - now is only editable when the row is selected.
Inspectors — Fixed a bug where the rotation widget in the Geometry inspector loses focus after using arrow keys to adjust value.
Text — Fixed a bug where text boxes would forget their width when re-opening a document.
Sidebar — Fixed an issue where small canvas icons in the sidebar would indent for no good reason.
Sidebar — Object ID numbers should now be displaying properly again.
Toolbar — Fixed a crash selecting Drawing Tool styles when certain developer colors were present on the canvas.
Visio — Fixed an ‘Illegal Seek’ error when opening certain Visio documents.
Stencils — Fixed a bug where dragging out stencils to the canvas would not drop it where it was placed.
Feedback — Document filenames that are included when sending feedback should once again have their names properly encoded.
Feedback — Fixed an issue when sending feedback that would prevent the sheet to include the document from showing.
Display — Fixed a bug where the canvas would only display a portion after hiding the sidebar and toolbar.
Duplication — Option-dragging a selection while zoomed out should drop the duplicated objects where intended.

Version 6.1 - Tuesday, November 4, 2014

OmniGraffle 6.1 is a major update that brings a new User Interface, the ability to detach inspectors into their own floating panels, new fill effects, new stroke and shadow types, and support for the Visio 2013 format. OmniGraffle 6.1 requires Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite to run.

User Interface — OmniGraffle has undergone an interface update in order to make it look more at home on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
User Interface — The Canvases and Contents sidebar is now able to be made more narrow than before, and page numbers no longer interfere with the canvas name.
User Interface — Inspectors can now be set in a floating tabbed interface, or pulled out into individual palettes for granular customization.
Inspectors — New Fill filters and effects have been added, with the ability to blur, pixelate, and magnify content behind an object.
Inspectors — The ability to stroke just the inside or outside of a shape has been added.
Inspectors — A new Inner Shadow type is now available.
Stencil Library — Stencil search results should now include results from our online Library, Stenciltown. Submit your own stencils at stenciltown.omnigroup.com!
Visio — Support for Visio 2013 file formats has been added.

Version 6.0.5 - Thursday, March 27, 2014

OmniGraffle 6.0.5 fixes a number of bugs as well as adding support for stencil searching from our online library.

Stencil Library — Stencil search results should now include results from our online Library, which has been seeded with stencils from the old OmniGraffle Extras page. User-submitted stencils are coming soon; if you’ve created any stencils that you would like to contribute, please contact us!
Page Setup scale — By popular request, the scale in Page Setup once again applies to canvases as well as to print (just as it did in releases prior to version 6.0.4).
Stability — Fixed an autosave-related crash.
Sidebar — Fixed a crash when right-clicking a locked layer.
Visio — Fixed a crash importing certain Visio XML documents.
Stencils — The “Show in Finder” button should now work appropriately for downloaded stencils as a result of a search.
Text — Text lists should now propagate while creating them.
Stencil Library — Fixed an issue downloading invalid file types from our online Library.

Version 6.0.4 — Wednesday, January 29, 2014

OmniGraffle 6.0.4 fixes a large number of bugs and crashes.

Printing — Page Setup scale now only applies to print operations, and should not affect canvas size values.
Unit Scale — The Auto-convert Scaled Objects setting now applies to the destination canvas, not the originating one.
Gestures — Multi-touch gesture sensitivity has been dialed back a little.
Drawing Tools — It’s now possible to set the default font for Line Labels.
Visio — Imported Visio stencils are automatically saved as file packages to improve performance.
Visio — Fixed a crash when importing certain Visio documents.
Visio — Fixed a bug where notes and data from Visio stencils went missing.
Printing — Page Setup scale should now be correctly taken into account when printing content that gets pushed off of a page.
Layers — Objects on Shared Layers should no longer be selectable via Command-A in Standard mode.
Images — Fixed an important performance bug involving documents that have placed EPS image data; those images are now converted to PDF on a save operation.
Lines — Adding a corner radius to a straight line type with midpoints no longer adds a ridiculous number of redundant and extraneous midpoints.
Variables — Fixed a bug where user data variables would paste improperly in other applications.
Connections — Fixed a bug preventing the use of the Magnet Tool on objects in Shared Layers.
Extras — Fixed a bug where Action and Note badges, etc. were only displaying the Graphite versions.
Export — Fixed a bug where margin fields could be erroneously included during Photoshop export.
Stencils — Fixed a crash on launch having to do with a certain combination of installed stencils.
Stencils — Fixed a possible crash creating new documents when very large and performance-intensive stencils are installed.
General — Fixed a bug where a new blank document could be generated on launch depending on one’s System Preferences.
General — Fixed a possible crash when closing a document or quitting the application.
Sidebar — Fixed a bug where it was possible to drag items to a locked layer.
Sidebar — Fixed a bug where non-printing layers were not displaying the correct status icon.
Sidebar — Fixed a crash when dragging objects between canvases.
Drawing — Fixed a bug where line endings would not display properly on launching the app by opening a file.
Drawing — Fixed a bug where the line arrow highlight can sometimes draw incorrectly.
Drawing — Fixed a bug scaling line labels.
Unit Scale — Fixed a bug where groups were dragged into canvases with large unit scale settings and came in at the wrong size.
Unit Scale — Fixed a bug where corner radius wasn’t being taken into account when dragging objects to canvases with different unit scale settings.
Inspectors — Fixed a bug where canvas size adjustment could break using the arrow keys when Page Setup scale was involved.
Inspectors — Shadow fuzziness should no longer allow negative values when using the arrow keys.
Inspectors — Fixed a bug where choosing a double stroke would increase the stroke width improperly.
Shapes — Fixed a bug where adding bezier points to shapes would put said point in the wrong location.
Shapes — Fixed a bug where empty shapes could not get their font information fully styled.
Text — Fixed a selection highlight bug when editing text.
Text — Fixed a bug where line labels following a line’s path would not change its color.
Text — Fixed a bug where keyboard commands to make text bold would not work properly when actively editing text.
Stability — Fixed a crash opening some visio binary files with shapes with notes.
Stability — Fixed a crash duplicating a canvas with certain orthogonal line combinations.
Stability — Fixed a crash changing the font size of text that contains an embedded pdf.
Stability — Fixed a crash uncombining shapes in a group or table.
Stability — Fixed a hang/crash applying a diagram style to a very large shape tree.
Stability — Fixed a crash duplicating shapes on a shared layer when all other non-shared layers are locked.
Stability — Fixed a crash combining shapes in a group or table (by not allowing it).
Stability — Fixed a crash when copying certain objects that had actions attached to them.
Stability — Fixed a crash when closing documents while there was an active text insertion point.
Stability — Some work done avoiding infinite loops and crashes therein.

Version 6.0.3 - Tuesday, December 17, 2013

OmniGraffle 6.0.3 fixes a large number of bugs and crashes, along with several Visio-related regressions.

Inspectors — Strokes once again display in points, and there’s a setting in the General Preferences Pane to use canvas units if desired.
Color Picker — The Pattern Color Picker now has a readable name in its tool tip.
Sidebar — Work on fixing a crash when adding objects to a canvas where all the layers are locked.
Stability — Fixed a crash displaying corrupt documents in the Resource Browser’s Recents folder.
Export — Fixed a crash when cancelling an export while the Font Panel was showing.
Visio — Fixed a crash when opening Visio stencils.
Tables — Fixed a crash when sub-selecting a cell in certain tables.
Stability — Fixed a crash when previewing corrupt OmniGraffle documents in the Resource Browser.
Stability — Fixed a crash when editing text in very small shapes. (turns out dividing by zero is bad)
Stability — Fixed a crash when working with objects that had mixed notes.
Presentation Mode — Fixed a crash when switching between canvases in Presentation Mode.
Inspectors — Fixed a crash when adjusting font size using the Font Inspector.
Stencils — Fixed a crash editing and restoring stencils from previous versions.
Stability — Fixed a crash related to a zombie process in certain warning sheet notifications. Stupid zombies.
Resource Browser — Fixed a crash previewing files with Enhanced MetaFiles within.
Resource Browser — Fixed a crash moving stencils to the Trash via the Resource Browser.
Stability — More work fixing crashes when editing and deleting installed stencils.
Visio — Fixed a crash when exporting to Visio XML where PNG images could report themselves as being very large.
Visio — Fixed some text positioning issues when importing Visio documents.
Visio — Fixed some line connection issues when importing Visio documents.
Visio — Fixed an import issue where objects could get broken up into separate images.
Visio — Fixed some text encoding issues when exporting to Visio XML.
Templates — Templates saved with decimal inches as the canvas unit should no longer change to fractional inches on a save and re-open.
Export — Fixed a bug when exporting to HTML where canvas names had spaces in them.
Text — Fixed a bug where changing the font face for a group would change the font size inappropriately.
Inspectors — Fixed a bug where the Shape mini-inspector would not show in the Ruler when running with a Standard license.
Sidebar — Objects on Shared Layers should no longer show in the Selection Matrix when running in Standard Mode.
Inspectors — Fixed a bug where the arrow keys would not change stroke width when using centimeters as canvas units.
Ruler — Fixed a bug where we weren’t consistently showing and hiding ruler inspectors.
Export — Fixed an issue when exporting to PDF where actions could wind up in the wrong location.
Popovers — Fixed a case where scroll bars would cover up content in certain popovers.
Drawing Tools — The Diagramming Tool should now properly create a disconnected object on Command click.
Sidebar — Fixed a UI refresh bug when deleting canvases.
Export — Fixed a bug where export to HTML would yield incorrect canvas names.
Drawing — Fixed a number of rather lumpy issues having to do with strokes on curved paths.
Images — Fixed a bug where linked images would disappear after restarting OmniGraffle.
Sidebar — Fixed Edit -> Outlining commands when the outline view is not showing.
Main Menu — Removed snap-to-grip keyboard shortcut because it conflicts with the accessibility keyboard shortcut.
Resource Browser — The Resource Browser is disabled if the trial period has expired.
Text — Text formatting commands now disable as well as enable bold/italics style.
Pattern Color Picker — The Pattern Color Picker is pro-only.
Printing — Shadows now print.
Trial Mode — Entering license after trial mode has expired will not result in a problem relaunching the app.
Images — Fixed displaying EMF images.
Sidebar — Fixed toggling layer accessory icons.
Canvas Origin — Canvas Origin manipulation is now available in standard.
Inspectors — Shape button title now truncates properly.
Inspectors — Properties Inspector View menu item no longer shows up in standard.

Version 6.0.2 - Wednesday, November 6, 2013

OmniGraffle 6.0.2 fixes a small number of bugs and crashes discovered since the release of OmniGraffle 6.0.1.

Documentation — The Keyboard Shortcuts document has returned.
Stability — Fixed a crash reverting changes when closing a document window.
Visio Import — Fixed a crash opening certain Visio files.
Stencils — Fixed some issues when editing stencils on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Sidebar — Canvas names now truncate properly when the sidebar is narrow.
Export — Strokes thinner than 1 point should now export to PDF properly.
Export — Fixed a bug where custom origins on canvases would cut off content when exporting to PDF.

Version 6.0.1 - Thursday, October 3, 2013

OmniGraffle 6.0.1 addresses a number of stability issues as well as offering better User Interface for determining which feature set has been licensed.

Resources — If a stencil or template that comes with OmniGraffle gets updated by us, and you haven’t made any customizations to it, then the newer version will replace the old.
Documentation — Fixed some typographical errors in the Getting Started or Welcome document.
Visio Import — Fixed a bug where lines connecting to groups in Visio documents weren’t properly connecting.
Stencils — Stencil searches now gives results based on object labels.
Smart Guides — Turned on smart guides in the built-in templates for Software Design, Metric Units, and Imperial Units.
Quick Look — Fixed an exception in the Quick Look plug-in that was causing other apps (like Finder) to see blank previews for OmniGraffle documents.
Text — Fixed a bug where text on layers that have been toggled to being a Shared Layer would not autoresize the text object, and led to ‘dirt’ being left on the screen.
AppleScript — More AppleScript performance improvements have been made.
Inspectors — Fixed a case where hiding Major Grid Lines would not save out to the document.
Stability — Fixed a hang when using keyboard shortcuts to make text bold or italic while editing text in a shape.
Stability — Fixed a crash when switching to Bold or Italic while the insertion point was at the end of a shape’s text.
Stability — Fixed a crash when downloading stencils from Graffletopia.
Stability — Fixed a crash when using the keyboard while an object with an action was selected.
Stability — Fixed a crash sometimes encountered when switching to the style brush after using OmniGraffle 5’s style brush.
Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when Option-dragging items (to copy them) in the sidebar’s outline view.
Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when creating a new label from AppleScript.
Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when saving edits to a stencil which was recently viewed in the sidebar.

Version 6.0 - Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Welcome to OmniGraffle 6! Some highlights of the new features include:

Interface — OmniGraffle 6 offers a complete User Interface redesign from the ground up.
Sandboxing — The application now runs in a Sandboxed environment.
Sandboxing — Application resources such as Templates and Stencils, etc. can now be fully managed from within the application.
Image Cropping and Masking — Improved and powerful controls have been added to edit and mask placed images directly on the canvas.
Styles — New artistic Fill and Stroke styles have been added, such as Freehand, Stipple, and Marker.
Shape Combinations — Combined shapes can now be uncombined into their starting component shapes. — Pro
Geometry — New controls to specify which edge or center of an object is reflected in the Geometry Inspector have been added, along with the ability to set the X and Y coordinates of a selected vertex point. — Pro
Shared Layers — Layers can now be toggled between a normal and a Shared layer. — Pro
Inspectors — A new and powerful Font Inspector is now available.
Inspectors — The Notes and Data Inspector now allows unique naming of individual objects. — Pro
Display — You can now set the display zoom level of 100% to reflect one Apple point, one screen pixel, or one PostScript point for work on Retina displays and true WYSIWYG work. — Pro
Display — Zoom levels have been increased to 6400%!
Guides — The color and position of manual Guides can now be set by hand, and can be dragged from one canvas to another.
Stencils — A new List Mode has been added when viewing Stencils.
Export — Photoshop export has returned, and supports the export of OmniGraffle layers to Photoshop layers. — Pro
Text — Line Labels have a new setting that allows the text to follow the path of the line.

A note to our international customers: We’re working on foreign language localizations, however they are not ready as of yet, and will be added in a future update.