Release Notes:

OmniGraffle for Mac

Release Notes: What's new, updated, or fixed

Recent Changes

Version 6.0.1 - Thursday, October 3, 2013

  • New
  • Updated
  • Fixed

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

  • New
  • Updated
  • Fixed

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.