OmniGraffle for Mac

Recent Changes

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.