Recent Changes
Version 6.5 - Tuesday, January 19, 2016
OmniGraffle 6.5 is a major update that adds the ability to submit stencils to Stenciltown from within the application and addresses bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Stencils — The ability to submit your stencils directly to stenciltown.omnigroup.com from within the application has been added.
- Stencils — Ivory Coast and Ghana as well as the capitol of Nevada are properly named in their respective notes.
- Resource Browser — Fixed a bug where it was impossible to edit a copy of an existing stencil.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when using the Find and Replace panel on a shared layer.
- Stability — Fixed a potential crash when converting vertex points to Bézier.
Version 6.4.1 - Wednesday, November 10, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.4.1 is a minor update that addresses bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Preferences — Trackpad Multi-Touch and Haptic Feedback preferences now reside in their own Preference Pane.
- Inspectors — Fixed a regression where floating inspectors would not load on launch.
- Accessibility — Fixed accessibility support for graphics to enable the define service.
- Drawing — Fixed a rendering bug where selection highlight artifacts could be left on screen when rotation and moving groups.
- Shadows — Fixed a regression where shadows set to cast on the layers below could be lost on a save and re-open.
- Sidebar — Fixed a bug where a solitary shared layer on a canvas could be set to non-printing, but the printing control icon would not properly reflect that state.
- Force Touch — Force Touch haptic feedback should now properly fire off when connecting directly to magnets on lines as well as when starting from one magnet to another on a single shape.
- Force Touch — Fixed a bug where excessive haptic feedback could occur when moving an object with multiple alignment guides to consider.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a Visio import bug where shapes would come in with the wrong fill color (usually black).
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a Visio regression where label text would be stripped upon import.
- Visio — [Pro] Visio stencils that are opened but not moved to the Container will prompt the user for action after editing.
- Resource Browser — Fixed a regression where adding resources to the Library via the Gear menu would not work.
- Resource Browser — Fixed a hang when importing the entire Home Folder into the Resource Browser.
- Localizations — The About Panel should no longer refer to OmniFocus in the French localization.
- Stability — Addressed a number of deallocation issues after closing a document with floating inspectors showing.
- Stability — Fixed an automatic layout related issue that could either crash the GraphViz engine or the application itself.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when deleting LinkBack objects from a pasted PDF.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when editing certain stencil files.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when opening documents on multiple monitor setups depending on window position.
- Stability — Fixed a possible crash when dragging stencils to the canvas.
Version 6.4 - Wednesday, September 30, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.4 is a major update that adds Force Touch for those with trackpads that support it, other changes to support Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, and adds important bug and crash fixes.
- Force Touch — For trackpads that support Force Touch, OmniGraffle now offers haptic feedback when snapping to guides and connecting directly to magnets.
- Documentation — Added a paragraph to the documentation about Option-Command clicking through a resize handle to get at a vertex point beneath it.
- Inspectors — Image assets in segmented controls should now be vertically centered in proper fashion when running on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a text encoding issue when importing certain Visio documents.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a Visio related regression when opening files that had EMF or WMF images embedded in them.
- Stability — Fixed a leaks involving multi-canvas documents with links between canvases.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when zooming in past 1300% on documents that had complex PDFs placed on the canvas.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when exporting a multi-canvas document results in an error.
- Stability — Fixed a possible data corruptor when sending in feedback and obscuring text.
Version 6.3.2 - Tuesday, September 15, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.3.2 is a minor update that focuses on stability fixes.
- Saving — Changed the way our code interacts with a Powerbox related crash.
- Export — Exported JPEG files should once again get the proper file extension.
- Export — Fixed an issue where exporting certain file formats with a fresh set of preferences would not append the file extension.
- Diagram Styles — Fixed a regression where the Diagram Style sheet had the Templates section of the sidebar hidden by default.
- Stencils — Fixed a bug where stencils in their own window would not scale with window resizing.
- Stencils — Fixed a bug where the Style Tray would not accurately reflect a selection when in Grid View Mode.
- Stencils — Fixed a crash when editing stencils and running with floating inspectors.
- Stencils — Fixed a crash when quickly dragging stencils onto the canvas after editing the document.
- Resource Browser — Fixed a crash that could occur when creating preview images in the Resource Browser.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when opening documents that had certain kinds of fills.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when an unexpected filetype got incorrectly referenced as an image.
- Stability — Fixed an undo stack related crash with the Action Inspector.
- Export — Fixed a crash when exporting documents that have actions that open files to SVG or HTML Image Map.
Version 6.3.1 - Monday, August 31, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.3.1 is a minor update that fixes an inspector related crash.
- Inspectors — Fixed a crash on launch that could occur with certain inspector layouts.
Version 6.3 - Friday, August 21, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.3 is a major update that adds the ability to read application resources from a folder outside of the Sandbox, improves interface and usability, and fixes a large number of bugs.
- Resources — You can now select a folder of your choice (such as an OmniPresence folder) outside of the Sandbox to read in resources such as Stencils and Templates, etc.
- Inspectors — Color Well popups now provide better suggested colors.
- Canvases — The minimum canvas size is now 1 px by 1 px, down from 10 px by 10 px.
- AppleScript — [Pro] A new entry has been added to the Help Menu to more easily access the Scripts Folder in ~/Library/.
- AppleScript — [Pro] The ability to set and query the names of objects via AppleScript has been added.
- Interface — New document icons have been introduced.
- Interface — The Preferences toolbar icons have been updated.
- Interface — The ability to collapse stencil folders has been added.
- Layout — Leaf nodes should now lay out into more centered arrangements beneath their parents, and let the parents slide away from their siblings when using automatic layout and orthogonal lines.
- Shared Layers — [Pro] Standard users who created shared layers in the Pro trial should be able to recover data contained in those shared layers.
- Export — The Export Sheet should now fit better on smaller displays.
- Quick Look — The Quick Look plugin has gotten some brushing up.
- Actions — Actions that open documents work more appropriately with Sandboxing.
- ColorSync — [Pro] ColorSync profiles should now be retained properly on close and reopen of a document, and no longer ignored or discarded.
- Undo — Point selection should now be restored on undo.
- Undo — Selection state should now be restored with undo/redo.
- Undo — Fixed a bug where text alignment would change after re-doing an undo of text deletion.
- Undo — You should now be able to redo text alignment changes.
- Undo — Undo should now work correctly when rearranging the canvas order.
- Export — Fixed an export issue where Acrobat, Chrome, etc. would report PDFs as damaged.
- Export — Fixed an export bug where PDFs would be double the expected file size.
- Export — Fixed a regression where exporting a multi-canvas document to raster format with the ”Entire Document” setting would append a file extension to the folder name.
- Export — The export area should once again default to Entire Document when exporting a multiple canvas document.
- Import — [Pro] Fixed a bug where Visio documents could not be opened due to a conflicting file extension with a different application.
- Guides — Fixed an issue where Smart Guides would often prefer more distant objects when nearer, more reasonable objects are available.
- Guides — Smart Guides should give more accurate distances when using centimeters.
- Guides — Fixed a bug where holding the Command key to temporarily turn off smart guides would work only when resizing objects, not when creating them.
- Style Tray — Fixed a regression where dragging the text style chit from an object with no text would not apply any text styling to the destination object.
- Style Tray — The Style Tray in the toolbar should once again work when in Full Screen Mode.
- Style Tray — Fixed a bug where text padding wasn’t captured when propagating styles via the style chit between a text box and a shape.
- Style Tray — Fixed an issue where dragging the Font style chit from one object to another always disabled Auto-Kern.
- Text — Fixed a bug where changing font size via the keyboard while text editing wouldn’t update the inspector field.
- Text — Fixed a bug where the font size field in the Font Inspector could be inaccurate when an object contained multiple sized text.
- Text — Text padding should now scale with the object size.
- Text — Fixed a bug where text would wrap based on the canvas size regardless of the object’s text wrap setting.
- Text — You should be able to see or increment the kerning value for individual pairs once again.
- Text — Fixed a bug where the Font Inspector controls could be inaccurate while editing text.
- Drawing — Fixed a bug where the targeting reticle for the Rubber Stamp tool persisted after switching drawing tools.
- Drawing — Fixed a bug where shadows with a large offset value wouldn’t fully disappear when disabled.
- Drawing — Fixed a bug where line endings would draw off-pixel at 100% zoom.
- Drawing — Fixed a rendering issue for objects that were less than a pixel thick.
- Drawing — Fixed a number of rendering artifacts.
- Drawing — Fixed an issue where dragged out stencils could be squished or stretched.
- Drawing — Fixed a bug where automatic scrolling was too aggressive when zoomed in past 1600%.
- Drawing — Fixed some canvas boundary bugs.
- Drawing — Fixed an issue where the Magnify Fill Effect would pixelate when exported.
- Stencil Window — Stencil searches are no longer case-sensitive.
- Stencil Window — Stencil searches should now show local results as well as ones from Stenciltown.
- Grid — Fixed a bug where centimeter grids could secretly become inaccurate.
- Grid — Fixed a bug where smaller canvases would draw in the upper left corner of the window depending on grid settings.
- Grid — Adding new points to shapes by double-clicking should now obey the grid settings.
- Sidebar — Fixed some focus issues when switching between the canvas area, sidebars, and inspectors.
- Sidebar — The Sidebar contextual menu should no longer show canvas options when clicking on a layer.
- Sidebar — Fixed a bug where the Contents Slab would not immediately update text labels after editing.
- Sidebar — Fixed a regression where opacity didn’t count for differentiating shapes by fill in the style matrix.
- Sidebar — [Pro] Fixed a bug where it was impossible to set shared layers to nonprinting unless there was more than one non-shared layer.
- Sidebar — [Pro] Fixed an issue where deleting the last shared layer on a canvas would leave an empty canvas.
- Layout — Fixed a bug where orthogonal lines would draw asymmetrically even with reasonable auto-layout settings.
- Layout — Fixed some orthogonal line routing issues.
- Layout — Fixed some line-to-magnet connection issues.
- Performance — Fixed a performance issue when very large PDFs were placed on a canvas.
- Performance — Fixed a performance issue when scrolling at 200% zoom or more when objects have shadows.
- Performance — [Pro] Performance improvements for the new Fill Effects have been made.
- Fill Effects — [Pro] Fixed a bug where the magnify blend mode would show the background grid when exporting an image.
- Drawing Tools — Fixed a regression where using the Pen Tool would not display bezier handles when initially drawing out a shape.
- Metadata — Fixed a bug where user data variables would paste improperly in other applications.
- Inspectors — Fixed a timing issue when tabbing into inspector input fields.
- Inspectors — Fixed a rounding issue concerning object dimensions.
- Inspectors — Input fields in the Geometry mini-inspector no longer cut off 3-digit values.
- Inspectors — Fixed a bug where sidebar inspectors would not be scrolled to the top on launch when the window height was fairly short.
- Inspectors — [Pro] Fixed a number of instances where Pro features would not immediately display after completing the In-App Purchase.
- Images — Fixed a regression where duplicating an object with an image would change the new image property to natural size.
- Quick Look — Fixed another Quick Look Satellite crash.
- Quick Look — Fixed a bug where shadows on objects weren’t always rendering in Quick Look previews
- Menus — Fixed a bug where ‘TEMP’ instead of Hide/Show Inspectors would display when the document was not the frontmost window.
- Preferences — The button in the Drawing Tools preference pane should again correctly open the System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts pane.
- Pasteboard — Fixed a UTI issue that prevented objects copied in OmniGraffle 5 and earlier from pasting into version 6.1 or later.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed regression where label text would get stripped when importing certain Visio files.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when switching between sidebar and floating inspectors.
- Stability — [Pro] Fixed a crash when dragging objects from a regular and shared layer to a non-shared layer.
- Stability — [Pro] Fixed a crash when opening certain Visio documents.
- Stability — [Pro] Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a document window, not saving, all while an object was selected and the Properties Inspector tab was showing.
- Stability — Fixed another automatic layout related crash.
- Stability — Fixed a large number of leaks.
Version 6.2.5 - Friday, July 10, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.2.5 is a minor update that fixes a bug with templates.
- Templates — Fixed a bug introduced in OmniGraffle 6.2.4 where if no template was selected as the default, then all new documents would be created using the Chalkboard template.
Version 6.2.4 - Monday, July 6, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.2.4 is a minor update focused on stability.
- Stability — Fixed a crash on launch when converting embedded EPS attachments to PDF during load.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when quitting the application when the Drawing Tool’s style popover was showing.
- Stability — Fixed an Automatic Layout crash.
- Stability — Fixed an undo crash after having made a large number of new canvases in quick succession.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when opening OmniOutliner documents when running in a foreign language localization.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when typing in the Sidebar’s Outline Editor.
- Export — Exporting file types that share file extensions with other applications should no longer fail to export.
Version 6.2.3 - Tuesday, May 26, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.2.3 is a minor update focused on stability.
- Stability — Possibly fixed another prevalent crash on launch.
- Stability — Fixed an issue that could lead to Mac App Store versions of OmniGraffle not opening.
- Stability — [Pro] Fixed a possible exception when re-ordering objects on shared layers.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when invoking a context menu to edit the next canvas in a document with zero displayed canvases.
- Stability — Fixed a font panel crash.
- Stability — The Resource Browser’s preview generation has been made much more thread safe.
Version 6.2.2 - Monday, May 4, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.2.2 is a minor update focused on stability.
- Stability — [Pro] Fixed a prevalent crash on launch when double-clicking a Visio file when OmniGraffle was not running.
- Stability — [Pro] Fixed a pattern fill related crash when printing or exporting to PDF.
- Stability — Fixed a crash on launch when opening certain documents.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when changing units after an export is completed or cancelled.
- Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a document window while OmniGraffle was in the background.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when using the Font popup in the Font Inspector.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when using the Find Panel in foreign language localizations.
- Stability — Fixed a Font Inspector crash.
- Stability — Fixed a crash involving orthogonal lines, automatic layout, and undo.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when copying and pasting an object’s style.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a crash converting EMFs to PDFs when importing Visio documents.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed an import bug where certain Visio documents could not be opened.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a crash when opening certain Visio documents.
- Visio — [Pro] Fixed a text encoding issue when importing Visio documents.
Version 6.2.1 - Tuesday, April 14, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.2.1 is a minor update focused on stability.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when checking the device type.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when closing the About panel or Help window.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when undoing changes with Automatic Layout turned on.
- Stability — Fixed an undo-related crash when saving.
- Stability — Fixed a crash on launch when the Font Inspector was in the Ruler.
- Visio — Fixed a bug where objects could incorrectly import with a 720 point stroke.
- Inspectors — The Diagram Layout Inspector’s directional controls should once again be visible.
- Quick Look — Quick Look previews should once again be working.
- Saving — Fixed a bug where resizing multiple objects would not save properly.
- Export — Exported PNG files without transparency now have the proper alpha metadata set.
- Magnets — Magnets on objects within groups should no longer display when View Magnets is on.
- Styles — Fixed a bug where Style chits in the Style Tray and Sidebar could render with black artifacts.
- Sidebar — Fixed a bug where the background to layer previews would render as a dark gray.
- Groups — Fixed a bounding box issue when modifying components of groups.
Version 6.2 - Thursday, March 26, 2015
OmniGraffle 6.2 is a major update adding localizations and adding more bug fixes.
- Localizations — Localizations have been added for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. Localized Help will be added in a future update.
- Sidebar — Changes have been made to the sidebar to improve visual contrast in order to better display the selected Canvas or Layer.
- Undo — Fixed a number of bugs concerning the Undo/Redo stack.
- Inspectors — Fixed a formatting bug in the Font Inspector that would prevent proper use of the comma when using German region formats.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when quitting the app while an input field was active.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when directly opening certain PDFs.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when printing.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when open certain visio stencil files that contain Enhanced MetaFiles.
- Inspectors — Fixed a bug where the Document Format Inspector title was aligned improperly.
- Stability — Fixed a crash checking the device type when creating a new document for certain users.
- Stability — Fixed a crash when opening certain stencils.
- Drawing — Fixed a bug where bezier handles on lines were not showing.
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.